My experience, any old hen.
If your calling is good and he's hot to trot, any hen will work perfectly.

 

If I was buying a decoy it would be a DSD, everyone has there reasons why they would or wouldn’t use one, but you asked what I would buy and it would be a DSD.
Flight

 

Jake?
Hen?

 

I like the feeding hen, I also have a looker but if I’m using one it’s the feeding hen.....and yes I do have the Jake and when in the right situation it’s deadly.
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DSD......strutter or hen. But if money isn't an issue, buy both and have some real fun.

 

Don‘t tempt me.......a DSD strutter would be nice, I have some funny money set aside but I keep threatening to by a MGM 350 legend barrel for my TC contender.
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The cheapest one's you can find. Buy used or borrow from a friend.

 

My DSD hen gets absolutely trashed every year by PO’ed hens and knocked off her stake by Toms trying to mate her.
She is the old hardbody version so you hear all of the pecking and scratching going on, plus watching her sliding on the ground while a Tom is trying to climb aboard is absolutely hilarious, ya gotta be there !!

 

I have had a Eagle try and take mine off the stake, it was an amazing sight, a turkey is a large bird but they are nowhere near the size of a Eagle.
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If money were no issue, then who would buy only one?

As Spock would say, that's a highly illogical scenario...

😂

 

The money had no bearing whatsoever for me, the results did however.
I have had two, the DSD Upright Hen and the DSD Jake. I had by far more positive results using just the Upright Hen by itself and sold the Jake. Every year for the last 20 the Hen has produced for me and my record is still perfect in taking a Tom each year, no reason to believe this year will be different so no reason to change and I generally arrow my birds.

 

Same combo I have and I have had really good results using both together on the public land I usually hunt. Only time I split them up is when I'm running and gunning. Then it's just the hen to cut down on the weight I'm carrying. These two take an absolute beating every year. As another commenter said, a lot of fun to watch.

 

Leaning toward DSD hen

 

Avian HDR looks good too

 

Pulled the trigger and got the DSD hen.
thanks for the responses.

 

You won’t regret that purchase

 

Many times in the heat of run and gun my decoy isn't deployed. Note to any new hunters reading. Run and gun is a term for moving in on birds. Not actually running with a weapon.

 

I'm still gunnin but my gunnin and runnin turned into sittin, callin, and decoyin. If that don't work today I'll be sittin, callin, and decoyin again until it does.

I couldn't find a way to fit arrowin in the above sentence because that's all I use until the final day, then everything changes. 🤓

 

I own 3, don’t regret buying them at all.
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This one right here ol Tommy boy

 

Don't overthink this boys........I've watched many, many toms die over an upright hen. A lot of times I've also had hens get riled up by the deke and pull in nearby toms, so there's that angle to it as well.

 

They had upright and leading in stock at Cabelas and they're pretty similar so I went with leading. I've also got an old school soft bodied deke that I'm going to fit with my Jake fan from last year's bird. Might only use the new DSD but it's good to have options. Thanks for the tips.

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I use an el cheapo foam hen decoy in the upright position. Seems to work well provided I can call them into range.

 

I got the feeding for this year! next year maybe a diferent one?

 

Call the factory and ask if they have any seconds available. Lower price for slightly imperfect specimens.