Use Well Painted Decoys

One of the easiest ways to create a realistic decoy spread is to have well-painted decoys. Decoys that are well painted look much more life like and well-painted decoys give your spread a much higher degree of visibility.

As you have already learned, both ducks and geese have excellent eyesight. Their ability to define color is far greater than our ability to define color. In addition, as you read in Key #2, both ducks and geese are constantly cleaning and preening themselves. If your decoys are missing paint, the colors have faded or overall they just look dull, they simply do not look real. They look like decoys and ducks and geese will shy away from your spread.

On a yearly basis, we touch up the paint on all of our decoys. In fact, we have repainted the vast majority of our decoy spreads to give them a more highly visible appearance. We believe that the condition and look of our decoy spreads is a great asset. The appearance of our spreads, and your spread to, is especially critical when the hunting pressure is or has been heavy or the birds are well educated.

Refer to Tailor Painted for complete instructions on how to paint or repaint your decoys.

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