motion decoys

leslie riggan

leslie riggan

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My hunting partner gave me a bag of his old goodies which contains 5 quiver magnets, 3 quiver ducks, 1 swimmer duck, and a baby mojo. In your honest opinion do you like dislike these? Any type of concerns gripes praises on them? I have never owned any motions before and don't want to scare/ flare the ducks. I would however like to draw some in. Do you guys have any set-up suggestions? Will this keep a hole in the ice if I ever get in some? Do they hold their weight in useful tools. I know plastics make some people puke, but I can't carve nor can afford the ones I want.
 
Leslie, I have some quiver magnet's. When the air is dead calm you need a little motion in the decoys. A jerk string on a decoy works. Quiver magnet's put little ripples on the water how effective are they? I have always thought they would be better inside of a decoy. A swimming duck I always thought about making one. I think that would be effective.

A mojo, There is a lot of hipe about these. Some think there are so effective that they should be banned and in some places they are. I have not found this to be true and at times they actually flare the ducks. I bought one about four years ago and haven't used it in two years. I found it to be a hassle and the noise they make drives me crazy after a while. Disturbs my wa My hunting partner swears by them and some times swears at them. I chuckle to my self when it falls in the water or spins around facing the wrong way. To me they are more trouble than they are worth. Since you have one try it out.

One of the things I am going to try next year is full body ducks on a artificial sand bar or log. I just know after I do that my freezer will always be full. hee hee
 
I have used the quiver magnets in a marsh and with light wind the ducks eye the magnet and wanted to sit with it rather than the decoys. The swimmer is a good one too. The mojos are good on windy days. I know someone that puts out 5 or more mojos and a few decoys and he kills a lot of ducks that way. A lot of batteries to charge!


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thanks guys, I think it's gonna be an experiment year for sure. I have three of those ducks with the quiver magnets in them. The expression on my wifes face when she came home and there was a duck floating around "wobbling" in the sink was priceless. Somehow she didn't find it amusing.
 
Leslie just bought a quiver magnet last week to add to the jerk string set up I have for calm days. I was very disappointed with it. Threw it in the pool with a few decoys to see how well it worked. First it didnt seem to add that much motion. Might be more affective inside of a decoy. But what ticked me off is the damn thing leaked! The gasket on the top was not glued in place very well and only a small part of it was really glued down. (Chinese quality). I glued the gasket in place with some super glue. put it back in the pool, that at least stopped the leaking. Going to try it in a decoy to see how well that works. But first I need to I get ready for our shotgun deer season which opens on Friday. Have fun with the toys
 
I don;t think I could stand looking at a spinner and don't really care to find out.
I bought a few quiver magnets back when they came out & they didn't seem to make enough ripples to make a difference.
I think in the end, a jerk string with a couple of feeder butts on it is much better. Plus you dont waste money on batteries.
 
The quiver magnest are OK. They add a little motion in the form of water ripples. It makes it look like ducks are feeding or just congregating on the water. The spinners I can't stand. Each time I see one I want to put a full chage of #2 into it.

Nate
 
I have never liked the robo ducks. No doubt they were effective at first, particularly on mallards in picked corn fields. And I have seen three guys standing out in the open on athe shoreline with a robo and a dozen decoys kill limits of spoonbills in just a few minutes. They sure were proud standing over their steaming pile of shovelers at the boat ramp. Spoonies are pretty easy to decoy anyway, but it was kind of sad to see them head for that thing like there were being reeled in on a kite string. The robos are real popular with the "whack em' and stack em" crowd up here. Sure, they are legal, just not my kind of duck hunting. But I manage to kill plenty of ducks without them. When I have to use a robo I will give it up.
Some days down on the Missouri River you can see the damn thinks fluttering in every direction but over the last few seasons I have noticed that ducks are flaring off of the spinners. I was set up on the water last week and watched some guys with a spread on a picked corn field adjacent to the water field hunting with some friggin' contaption that consisted of two decoys going around in circles on a pole. I bet that thing needed a car battery for power. Anyway,every bird that crossed the field flared off. I sure as hell wouldn't want to watch that thing going round and round and I don't want to lug a car battery with me,either.
 
I use 3 or 4 quiver magnets and a half dozen duck butts on calm days and it seems to work well. The ducks will try to land on top of them, by the time the figure out there is something amiss I can get off a shot or two.
 
put it this way in my few years of duck hunting i have observed a many things, but what seems to ring true every time i go out on decent hunting days is if my spread looks totally different then the guys next to me then i do well.

if the guys next to me or out in the bay (4-500 yrds away) have a bunch of robos which most of the time they do, i will not bring one.

another thing if those guys have big spreads then i'll set less then 3 dozen deeks. some of the goose bay boys set 250 deeks.

i dont own a mojo or any of those things but ive seen them work and ive seen them flare birds, and im way up north early in the migration when the birds (so ive heard) are less wary. IMO bring one with you and wait to set it until you see what other guys have out.

eddie
 
I read somewhere to run a small dark colored wire from you mojo into your blind and put a switch on it to shut off your decoy. So if the ducks are flaring then you can turn it on at first to get their sttention then turn it off when they get close. I see that you can get remote controls for them but a firend had a remote controlled mojo and it was a real pain, needed constant reprogramming, would randomly shut off or turn on. On opening day we did see one hunting party do exceptionally well with two robo ducks and a few normal floaters. So it seems that early on they may be more effective than later.

Bill G.
 
Leslie,

Everybody has had experiences of their own due to many circumstances. Personally I have a mojo and used it a couple of seasons but what I've found is if your not where the ducks want to be they're not very effective. the quiver magnets I had from Herters didn't make enough water movement unless it was dead still out. Wha's more effective is when it's slow send the dog out to mix up the water a little. Even if some ducks fly by the dog isn't going to spook them much if you get him back to the blind/boat quickly. A couple of years ago I confiscated my sons radio controlled boat and placed a decoy on it that I cut the bottom out of. Really looked neat from 40yds away running around the decoys but again never had anything want to land and play. Probably more my fault for being where the ducks didn't want to be. Now on the other hand I can park my boat 400yds from the house in a little pocket by the bridge to the island I live on and have the opportunity to limit out most days because that happens to be where the ducks want to be. Just doesn't seem sporting to shoot ducks in their rook!

Just my 2 cents

Ed L.
 
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