As the title says I am always looking for ways to improve my hunting. I now use two decoys as a sentry since I kept seeing a crow would land close to the one I hung up (I guess splitting the duties). I use 50 feet of 550 cord tied to an 8 ounce mushroom duck decoy anchor. It works really well but it took some getting use to with removing it from the tree, I would try and pull it out to fast and it would wrap around a branch. so how do you all hang your sentry decoys?
We used a 24 ft. extendable paint pole with a paint roller bent to a hook on the end to accept the wire hooks on the decoy and then screw a decoy on the pole and stand it up thru a tree after the others are hung. Also use a rod & reel to get them higher where we need to.
I cut down a 15-20 foot sapling with a hand saw, put my deeks on this sapling and stand the whole affair up next to another tree. Strap the cut sapling to the tree and deeks are up where I want them.
Wow I would have never thought of that. I can do this on my own farm but I can put a 2-3 feet pvc pipe in the ground and have it out on its own. Thanks for that one. I am going to go buy some pvc pipe on my way home and try to get this done this weekend.
I use a lofting pole. It's 5-6 sections of 6ft each, and you can adjust the height. Used to then hook them on branches, but with our high winds they kept blowing down.
So I used two coat hangers to wrap them onto each side of the lofting pole T bar, and leave then attached, with the pole just resting amongst have the beaches, supported from the ground.
It works well
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Get a baseball and drill a small hole in it. Screw in an Ibolt type screw and tie some strong fishing line to it. Throw ball as high as you can over a limb and tie decoy and pull up and tie off.
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Get a baseball and drill a small hole in it. Screw in an Ibolt type screw and tie some strong fishing line to it. Throw ball as high as you can over a limb and tie decoy and pull up and tie off.
That's basically how I am doing it now. 8oz lead duck anchor on 50 feet of para cord. I attach the weight and throw it over the branch. Then remove the weight and attach the decoy and pull it up. The one in this picture it a new one I just made I case I decide to use a third sentry. I still have to paint the clips on the rope and decoy.
-- Edited by jacobhwrd on Friday 2nd of October 2015 02:02:49 AM
