Just watch crows feeding in a field and set your decoys up like that. You should always have a few in the trees anyways. Didn't you sign up for the wallaceton hunt ?
I normally put 6-8 in the trees and about a dozen on the ground. But, I suspect I am wasting my time putting them on the ground. Thirty minutes in, I have plenty natural ones on the ground. LOL
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Make sure to leave a killing hole, if you're right handed slightly to your left. My setup starts at the right side of the hide and stretschrs to my left.
Actually I have found that you don't really need a kill hole like you do when hunting ducks or geese. In fact a lot of times crows shy away from holes in the decoy spread.
How the crows approach your blind all depends on the direction and intensity of the wind. On any one day when I'm done shooting I find most of my dead crow piled up within a 20-30 yard circle irregardless of where the decoy(s) are placed in relation to calling. Calm windless days will possibly have birds coming from all directions making for lots of head turning. Wind IMO is the big factor as crows will almost always come to a calling/decoy setup into the wind.
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