Let's talk about winter wheat and layout blinds

[Kudu]

How do you do it?

Looking at the dead honkers thread - They simply used brown grass / broken haystack method with deecs to distract the geese from seeing the lumps.

Has anyone else had as much success with this method? I find the geese just flare off at 50 paces after having a look - when I try that trick.

[pnbrock]

The key to layout blinds take all hard corners out and blend to ground this will take a bit of effort .the more you don't look like a lump in a flat field the better. Grass ,corn stalks , hay or straw filling all straps is the key!

[Kudu]

The key to layout blinds take all hard corners out and blend to ground this will take a bit of effort .the more you don't look like a lump in a flat field the better. Grass ,corn stalks , hay or straw filling all straps is the key!

Oh Bugger!! - and there I was thinking that our camouflage was good...

[pnbrock]

I like the set up area in the first pic , tough to set up in the second pic.

[Kudu]

yep - the top one is easy - its the bottom one that we struggle with.

thats why I asked how does everyone else do it.

[lorneparker1]

Well the key to setting up successfully IMO in the bottom pciture is more decoys and a change in setup. I set up a fairly big loose U. In a field with no cover I set up on one side of the U and stacking ALOT of my dekes around me to one break up the blinds, to add comfort that there are dozens of geese around these misc piles, and lastly I keep the dekes closer to each other so there is no landing area and forces the birds into the hole or on the opposite side of the U (why i keep the pocket big and the dekes spaced out quite a bit, giving them ample room to land). Setting up on the side of U keeps their focus off of you when approaching as well. Angle your blinds on a 45 into the pocket.

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[pnbrock]

hes gonna need a ton more decoys for that spread lorne!!!

[lorneparker1]

Lol maybe, But if setting up ina low/no cover field i usually run around 4-6dozen.

[Kudu]

4-6 dozen? - what are you using? Full bodies - shells or Silos?

I can't imagine my son and I hauling 4-6 dozen shells, let alone full bodies - 400 meters accros the field, maybe socks or silos but thats about it.

You can't see them in the pics I put up, but there were 40 odd shells in those fields and that's about the limit we would carry. Anymore and it's no longer fun - just a bloody hard chore.

[lorneparker1]

4-6 dozen ? - what are you using?

Full bodies - shells or Silos?

I can't imagine my son and I hauling 4-6 dozen full bodies, 400 meters accros the field, maybe socks or silos but thats about it.

You can't see them in the pics I put up but there were 40 odd shells in those fields and that's about the limit we would carry. Anymore and it's no longer fun - just a bloody hard chore.

We hunt all full bodies. I am sure i have a pick or 2 kicking around but we can haul 4 dozen ffd lessers ( packed in avery 12 slot duck bags) and 2 layout blinds on a fridge cart
One guy pushes the cart the other guy totes the other dozen or 2 in the other few bags. Its defintly alot of work, especially hauling it back out with a limit of geese. But we also havea motto that sometimes the only thing between us and an epic hunt is laziness. Thats it

Lorne

P.s Dave and Dave hunt 6 or so dozen silos and kill em!