heads up decoy mounted on bow

Trad Bow 1979 · Mar 15, 2015

So the guy at the archery shop was telling me that having your Heads Up Cow Elk Decoy mounted to your bow is effective to use while moving. My thought is that the weight of the decoy on the bow would create some serious torque and throw off your shooting. Have any of you practiced shooting your bow with a heads up decoy mounted on your bow?

uteman801 · Mar 16, 2015

Great question. I would like to know as well if someone has experience with this.

YukonDall · Mar 19, 2015

SOUNDS DANGEROUS.

trophyhunter · Mar 22, 2015

vthokee · Jul 12, 2015

I have been looking at decoys for this coming elk hunt here in NM and I have seen this decoy. The guy is out of NM and it seems like a good product. Have you looked at these for mounting to your bow?
http://www.thestalkerbymigsdecoys.com/about.html

uteman801 · Jul 13, 2015

I would be careful and cautious with decoy systems that you hide behind. You couldn't pay me to do that! I've been hunting with my dad using his cow feeding Montana decoy and witnessed 2 different times other hunters shooting it on an LE unit. Scares the hell out of me now!

fly4fish · Jul 13, 2015

I have a few Heads Up Decoys. Antelope, Elk and Turkey. As you should suspect, you can definitely feel it on there so you have to adjust for it, but it doesn't destroy your aim. I have had great success with the Turkey. I haven't used the other two enough to discredit them, but they have yet to attract anything yet. I prefer to not use decoys on big game if I don't have to; turkeys are a different story. Definitely be careful. The decoy at the link in the post prior looks pretty good.

Here are some videos I made using the Turkey Heads Up Decoy.

https://vimeo.com/96874446
https://vimeo.com/95687622

Trad Bow 1979 · Jul 15, 2015

Yea I decided that between the added risk, the extra torque on the bow that it might be a pain in the ass.

RabidRattleSnake1 · Jul 21, 2015

I really like the migs decoy (bow mounted decoy) mentioned earlier. After you mentioned it I checked them out and purchased one. For where I hunt I think it will work great. I hunt a wilderness unit here in NM so running into other hunters is a non issue. In five years of hunting it I have only seen one other hunter in the field so safety should be a nonissue, and it is fairly open P/J mesas where I hunt so this decoy could be a big advantage.

vthokee · Jul 22, 2015

RabidRattlesnake, Where are you hunting in NM? I see a few NM hunters on here from time to time.

RabidRattleSnake1 · Jul 23, 2015

Vthokee I hunt 16B.

vthokee · Jul 23, 2015

That's a good unit. I'm hunting 51 for elk this year.

JACO · Aug 8, 2015

There is a similar product out there that is a way better design in my opinion, made by poison arrow gear. It wraps around an arrow in your quiver, then takes about 5 seconds to deploy. The graphics look about like a Montana decoy. I used one last year and I thought it worked pretty well.