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Poison Arrow Gear decoy at work

Postby poisonarrow » 11 24, 2014 •  [Post 1]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRLeTyLyTpM]

This is a video of Slim9300 approaching a bull across an open meadow. He was not trying to kill this bull. He was only trying to see how effective the decoy is.

You can see that he could have had a number of shot opportunities during this encounter.

I have addressed the main concerns with the decoy. The number one concern is that it was difficult to keep the decoy rolled up. I have a very secure roll up method on the new models.

Thanks for watching
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Re: Poison Arrow Gear decoy at work

Postby ElkNut1 » 11 24, 2014 •  [Post 2]

James, the link provided does not work?

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Re: Poison Arrow Gear decoy at work

Postby poisonarrow » 11 24, 2014 •  [Post 3]

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Re: Poison Arrow Gear decoy at work

Postby WapitiTalk1 » 11 24, 2014 •  [Post 4]

Sweet VID! Yes sir, them things work like a charm. I had two cows and a calf look right at me numerous times during a calling sequence on a bull in ID this year and go back to feeding when I wiggled my pretty cow face at them; this went on for a good while. I'm wondering why Slim didn't jump on that bull's back and go for a ride? Looks like he was close enough :D
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Re: Poison Arrow Gear decoy at work

Postby ElkNut1 » 11 24, 2014 •  [Post 5]

Yes sir, it works fine now, thanks James! Too, thanks to Slim with some foggy footage showing his stealthiness! (grin) Nice!

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Poison Arrow Gear decoy at work

Postby slim9300 » 11 24, 2014 •  [Post 6]

I am working on getting the video in HD on a jump drive. Its currently on my buddies Droid and he's without a computer. It's MUCH clearer. That bull is actually a crowned out little 8x7 that would only score about 265-270" if you can believe that. It was certainly a great morning hunting elk, even if I was in the lowlands!

The sad part is that I had a bunch of great videos but my hunting partner accidentally deleted them. :(
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Re: Poison Arrow Gear decoy at work

Postby slim9300 » 11 24, 2014 •  [Post 7]

ElkNut1 wrote:Yes sir, it works fine now, thanks James! Too, thanks to Slim with some foggy footage showing his stealthiness! (grin) Nice!

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Conlan has no stealthiness Paul! Lol. Just doing what I can with what I have! ;)
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Re: Poison Arrow Gear decoy at work

Postby ElkNut1 » 11 24, 2014 •  [Post 8]

Ha Ha, don't try to sandbag me bud, you've killed more elk for your age than anyone I know! You are stealthy when necessary! (grin) Wish we could see the other footage too! Bummer!

James from Poison Arrow Gear has a great decoy there! I played with it a bit this year as well.

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Postby elk.addict » 11 24, 2014 •  [Post 9]

That was a cool video, and hopefully some pictures were taken of the close encounter in the fog.
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Re: Poison Arrow Gear decoy at work

Postby slim9300 » 11 26, 2014 •  [Post 10]

elk.addict wrote:That was a cool video, and hopefully some pictures were taken of the close encounter in the fog.


I wish! That would be nice to have! Just memories and the video for me.
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Poison Arrow Gear decoy at work

Postby slim9300 » 12 06, 2014 •  [Post 11]

Here are some pictures I took of the bull as I was sneaking in. I just remembered I had them. Not big enough but pretty neat bull.
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