Re: silhouettes vs full body decoys
This early season, if you're where the birds want to be, use very little calling, if they start to skip or slide off just a little bit more speed or aggression should bring them back inline. There'll be days when you wont even have to pick up a call. If the birds want in it wont matter if you're blowing a kazoo or a 150 dollar call.
Theres a whole group of guys eastcoast who only run silos, pretty much anyone under sean mann who is sponsored by real geese, thats all they run, they go for numbers and size of spread, whereas west coast guys seem to go for more smaller spreads with more realism. It just depends what you've found to work in your area the best. Theres no special number of decoys or which company to buy to just instanly start killing geese, it can take time, alot of days afield with no birds to show for. But after awhile everything will start to come together.
Its the learning curve, and thats why some are more reluctant to give up locations or info on where or how they hunt.
Sorry for the rant but if I was you depending where you are hunting out in the marsh or in a field, a couple dozen silos will do just fine. But fullbodies or shells can work just as good. Its up to how you use them.
Most important list.
1.Location and Hide are tied for 1st
2.Decoy Spread
3.Calling
4.What you ate for breakfast
5.What colour hoodie you where underneath.
1st Im in charge, and if not Matt is. Your job is to sign checks, tell us we're doing good and open your case of scotch after a good day. 2nd my fee. You can keep it, all I want in exchange for my service is the right to hunt all the drakes. A male. Buck only. Why and how are my business. If you don't like it, go alone. Set up right here or in a swamp or in the middle of a noshoot field for all I care. I've been on too many duck hunts with rich dentists to listen to any more suicidal ideas. Ok?