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Posted: **Wed Jul 03, 2013 2:01 pm**

Anyone out there use lots of duck butts in their spread? After driving around last season and watching feeding wigeon and gadwall (our most numerous ducks here) I bought 2 dz butts and am painting them to look like Wigeon, lots of black and white. Im thinking using 2 dz butts and 3 dz regular dekes in my deep water spread. Any comments?

Posted: **Wed Jul 03, 2013 2:04 pm**

I have around 50 or so duck butts, I don't always put all of them out but in shallow water I put out a good amount of them. Never seemed to scare birds. Mine are mallards, blacks and pintail. I never painted any of them into different birds but I don't see it hurting you.

Posted: **Wed Jul 03, 2013 2:15 pm**

I've thought the same thing. Mostly because I'm cheap, and primarily shoot divers, I don't have any, but whenever I see ducks while out driving around, there are at least a couple asses visible.

Posted: **Wed Jul 03, 2013 2:52 pm**

I have 4 and will probably get a few more for this season. I hunt flooded cut corn quite a bit and figure the more feeding birds the better.

Posted: **Wed Jul 03, 2013 2:53 pm**

I only put out 1-2doz deeks total when I'm hunting flooded fields as well.

Posted: **Wed Jul 03, 2013 5:10 pm**

I used 5 dozen decoys and only had 3 butts out last year. I put them on jerk strings. Probably would have had more but didn't want to go buy any.

Posted: **Wed Jul 03, 2013 5:14 pm**

I have about a dz mallard duck butts and 8 of them are on 2 jerk rigs.

Posted: **Thu Jul 04, 2013 3:51 am**

We load up on sprig ass out here. The white pops. Birds can see them easier.

Posted: **Thu Jul 04, 2013 11:37 am**

GaddyGetter, the white is what im going for. Got a dz mallards for about nothing and painted lots of black and white on em and bought a dz pintails. Going to see how it works.