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Conceal or Minimize Your MovementUse the following guidelines to minimize your movement. Ducks and geese are naturally wary creatures. They have to be to survive. They use their vision to steer clear of possible deadly situations. Namely, they look for movement. In order to limit their opportunity to detect your movement from above, whenever possible, use or build blinds that offer overhead concealment. Without overhead concealment, you are extremely susceptible to having your movements noticed whenever birds are above you. If your blind is not fully concealed from above, hunting can become very stressful with lots of flaring birds and often only marginal shots being taken. Instead of quickly turning your head and your body to find the birds, only use your eyes or at the very least use your eyes while "SLOWLY" turning your head. Eliminating sudden movement that is caused by watching birds by quickly turning your head and body will greatly increase your opportunity for a quality hunt when overhead concealment is not available. A common mistake made by many waterfowl hunters is to forget about the vegetation and cover on their blinds as the season progresses. Throughout the season the vegetation and cover on most blinds takes a beating. Travel, wind, rain and snow take a toll on the appearance of your blind and before you know it, your blind has lost most of its effectiveness. At a minimum, inspect your blind on a weekly basis or better yet inspect it daily to see if there are any holes that are starting to appear. If there are or if the cover is starting to become sparse, brush up your blind with new material. This is a strategy that we use whenever we are hunting late-season or extremely wary birds. Instead of setting up your blind directly in front of the landing zone created in our decoy spread, we position our blinds on the edge of the decoy spread and crosswind the birds as they are coming in. By using this technique, we have eliminated birds zeroing in on us as they make their final approach. We've had late season ducks and geese literally land five yards away from us while using the crosswind approach and they never even knew we were there. Email this page to a friend. To Become A Member1 Year Subscription To TakeEm........ $24.95 Click here to join now. |
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