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    How to Make Sandhill Crane Decoys

    Just wandering If the Green screen has any ideas on how to make some or where i can buy some cheap ones at. I will also take any advice on how to hunt these birds i am new to the crane hunting.

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    I just got my Sandhill permit in the mail this morning. I have been schemeing on how I am gonna hunt them as its my first time as well. They get pretty thick in Hardemon County.

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      #3
      I've seen silouettes made out of ply wood & spray painted, but this is heavy & expensive.

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        #4
        Gray rags on a stake so they blow in the wind. Personally seen it work.

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          #5
          We took blue heron “confidence decoys” and modified them w/paint and used some rebar to get them head high (6’ish) so they would be more visible from distance.
          Set them about 40-80 yards downwind from your cover.

          Uses buckshot :-)
          I like 12 ga 3.5” #4 for cranes inside 100 yards

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            #6
            Down here on the coast we paint the Whooping Cranes gray, bird watchers complain some but it works.....

            Use gray 5gl paint buckets placed up on sticks so the wind can move them around.
            Last edited by Thumper; 11-11-2013, 02:40 PM.

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              #7
              Go to a t-shirt printer, see if you can buy misprint or overstock grey shirts from them cheap. Cut them in half vertically, turn them inside out and drape them over a 48" wooden dowel stuck in the ground at a 45° angle. Cotton shirts will weigh more than plastic rags (especially if they get wet) but you don't need to put out 1000 of them either.

              Or you could spend anywhere from $10-$50 apiece on socks and bodies.

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