OntarioHunter
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I hunt on the leading edge of the migration early in the season. My spread consists of two dozen shells that I usually carry out on the field or wheel them out in a modified golf cart. I think I did as well in the old days with just one dozen. Others in my area have tried mixing silhouette deeks with shells or body decoys and had very poor results. If you have six dozen full bodies, that's plenty. With honkers I have found more decoys is not always better (with snows more is essential). How are you setting them up? I keep mine less than 4' apart and facing mixed direction although facing roughly the same direction. Because I have a spread that resembles a family group or two (depending if I put out the second dozen), I set out a lone pair about fifteen yards ahead of the rest. That's where the honkers will land ... if they land without getting shot! No motion in my set! The second dozen came with crappy motion stakes. I tossed them and made fixed T stakes like the ones that came with the earlier model dozen (fifty years earlier). How they can sell Mojo honker decoys is beyond me. I guess the hunting crowd just has to have something new ... even if it doesn't work. Flags do work but only at long distance to get their attention. Once the geese are giving the set a look, put the flag away!