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Cutting and running with the Zink decoys - how do you do it?

Started by Clay, April 12, 2012, 09:44:37 AM

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TauntoHawk

I do really like the stakes that come with the zink..

Ive been giving some thought knowing the 28th I'll be hunting the mountains and be looking at a few good miles that day. I think rather than go with a vest and decoy bag i will deflate my zinks flat and strap them to the back of my badlands pack. set ups might take more time but I have a feeling I'll need to cover a lot more ground between sets and birds so the pack might be the ticket to still carry 2 decoys.

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TauntoHawk

I'll post these for those that have the zinks.

While I have a double decoy bag that comfortably fits both the hen and jake fully inflated with a nice carry strap. Some people have stated what is the purpose of buying them over any other decoy if you don't take advantage of deflating and making them more mobile.

Here is what I am going to do for when I want decoy to be mobile. While I generally wear my tac tater vest I also will run a backpack at times when I am coving a lot more ground. I have the ol' tom vestless shirt which has pockets for pot calls, strikers, and locators as well as call pouches that fit onto the waist belt of my pack for addition calls and rangefinder ect. I can carry more gear, heavier gear, a do it more comfortably using a backpack when I'm back in deep all day. This is my Badlands Ultraday pack and I simply deflate and strap both decoys flat onto the back.

Opening day of PA I know I have planned roughly a 1.3mile walk all up hill to get to my listening post on the highest ridge above a series of old pastures and ponds way up off any road. As far as getting set up quickly?! I timed myself yesterday

Starting with the pack on my back decoys strapped in fully deflated.

Take pack off, unstrap, blow the hen up, then inflate the jake. Stake out in the yard and quickly retreat back roughly 15yds away.. 1min 49seconds

If I have a bird that is coming in quick enough that I don't have 2min before he's there then Id venture to say I don't need a decoy at all for that bird. But again not trying to change anyone's mind that is set against them just provide information to those that are using them.
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