| How to set up & use spinning wing decoys | | | | put your spinning wing decoy in the exact spot |
| Duck hunting spinning wing decoys can be one of | | | | you want the birds to land. The birds will come |
| the most effective decoying tools a duck hunter | | | | in feet down and try to land on your spinner. On |
| can use. The migrating, the younger and the | | | | non-migration days or late season heavily hunted |
| early season ducks are drawn to the flash of a | | | | birds, you want to place the spinning decoy up or |
| spinning wing decoy, as if they are on a string and | | | | down wind 20 to 30 yards outside your decoys |
| you are pulling them in. There has been much | | | | or off to the side. Experienced birds tend not to |
| controversy over the use of this decoy by DFG, | | | | land where the spinner is located. The spinners will |
| hunters, activists, governmental agencies, etc. as | | | | attract them, give them a hole in your decoys to |
| to the use being an unfair advantage and that | | | | land. |
| more birds will be taken during the hunting season. | | | | On overcast days the effectiveness of the |
| As a duck hunter that has been using and making | | | | spinning wings goes down when there is little |
| spinning wing decoys to attract ducks since their | | | | sunlight hitting the wings. A tip for cloudy |
| inception, I have noticed that if anything more | | | | overcast days is to put your spinner in weed |
| ducks are taken home by duck hunters than | | | | cover or under trees as the motion out in the |
| ducks killed with the use of a spinning wing decoy. | | | | open without sun will scare incoming ducks more |
| What I mean by this is, since the spinning wing | | | | than it will attract them. |
| decoy is so effective especially with hunters who | | | | Ducks have seen these spinning wing decoys |
| don’t know how to set decoys or call, that | | | | from Canada all the way down to your hunting |
| the birds come in closer for clean shots. Whereas | | | | spot and the farther south you are, the harder |
| before these types of hunters, which are the | | | | time you will have trying to attract them. On |
| majority of hunters, take longer shots and cripple | | | | migration days when the sky is full of ducks, the |
| more birds than they kill clean. The cripples, which | | | | spinning wing decoy is unbelievable, the ducks will |
| eventually die would usually be more than a limit. | | | | drop out of the sky. |
| If anything the evolution of the spinning wing | | | | If you also do goose hunting while duck hunting |
| decoy has become a conservation tool and has | | | | you will find that the spinning wing will flare the |
| brought back enthusiasm and excitement into | | | | geese off your spread. Things that can be done |
| duck hunting for hunters. | | | | so the geese will not flare are remote control |
| At we have developed duck hunting decoys with | | | | spinners, but every time I see geese coming I |
| and without motors to fit any hunting situation. | | | | can never get to my remote in time. At we have |
| We have videos that show exactly how the | | | | developed a pull string spinning wing decoy that |
| spinner works out in the field. | | | | allows you to control the motion when ducks are |
| The flash of the spinning wing simulates landing | | | | overhead and no motion when geese are |
| ducks and can pull in ducks from great distances. | | | | approaching. This also works well on late season |
| Point the wings of your spinning wing decoy | | | | birds as the flash is not constant like they have |
| upwind as this will be the direction ducks will come | | | | seen in every other spread. There are no motors, |
| into your spread. The more flash that is | | | | 100% manual operation which make them legal in |
| created, by using multiple spinning wing decoys | | | | some states that have banned motorized decoys. |
| the farther away ducks can see your spread. | | | | If you want more feet down in your face duck |
| Spinning wing decoys are most effective during | | | | hunting, where you drop your ducks dead in the |
| the big migration when the northern plains have | | | | decoys, then you have to experience the use of |
| frozen over and the ducks push south for | | | | a spinning wing decoy. |
| warmer weather. They are also effective during | | | | 2009 © HerbanHunter. |
| the early season. During these times you want to | | | | |