Stolen Goose Decoys, Just Now in SoDak!!!

  • mbenson
    Minocqua, WI
    Posts: 1715
    #1526256

    “To the a$$ holes who stole over 100 avain x decoys a pile of GHG full body snow goose dekes outta the spread last night u better hope we don’t find you! Spread the word please! Was a white Chevy mn plates 2 younger guys jump shooting in the area yesterday. Only lead we have. My guess is they drove out n filled a pickup load. Had the choice of both avain x n GHG. Looks like they tried to scab as many of avains as they could n topped it off w/ GHG.”

    A quote from my friend from just a bit ago who is snow goose hunting in SoDak. If you know something at some ppoint in time, let me know and I will pass it along to Matt.

    Mark

    chomps
    Sioux City IA
    Posts: 3974
    #1526259

    what area were you near? Brookings, Watertown?

    mbenson
    Minocqua, WI
    Posts: 1715
    #1526267

    chomps:

    Trying to find out, got a friend who is out there lying in a field who texted me and asked me to post… I just asked him your question and should be able to answer in a few moments.

    Mark

    bullcans
    Northfield MN
    Posts: 2012
    #1526269

    Get the cops involved on I29 and I90
    Hopefully they don’t have a topper on the truck and can be easily seen

    bullcans
    Northfield MN
    Posts: 2012
    #1526272

    With that many dekes stolen then a trailer has to be in the mix too I would think

    carver
    West Metro
    Posts: 611
    #1526295

    A trailer for sure. Not even a long box with a topper could fit that many with bases.

    I wouldn’t be so fast blaming blue platers for stealing deeks unless you got proof.

    What I don’t get is this. Why leave the spread in the field if your leaving for the night. If your hunting the same field (not that often we double dip) we sleep in the truck in the field. Or its 2 hrs max to pick up.

    It happens just about every year and the same senerio plays out across MO, SD and others someone will learn sooner or later.

    213
    Posts: 54
    #1526304

    Where exactly where you?

    river rat randy
    Hager City WI
    Posts: 1736
    #1526311

    Were any of them marked some way.? Like your initials or name or marked with x or something.?… …rrr

    mbenson
    Minocqua, WI
    Posts: 1715
    #1526313

    Sorry, got to go to lunch… He is SW of Brooking and west of Souix Falls…

    Mark

    213
    Posts: 54
    #1526336

    I’m up by Huron I’ll keep my eyes on craigslist and ask around

    Ben Brettingen
    Moderator
    Mississippi
    Posts: 605
    #1526341

    What I don’t get is this. Why leave the spread in the field if your leaving for the night. If your hunting the same field (not that often we double dip) we sleep in the truck in the field. Or its 2 hrs max to pick up.

    Ummm….picking up 2,000-3,000 decoys just to put them out in the morning seems a little foolish to me. That’s at minimum an extra 5-6 hours of work every night. Also, it’s nice to sleep in a bed rather than the backseat of your truck.

    I’ve thankfully never had a problem with leaving out decoys. Heck when we got into a good traffic field, I’d leave them for a week.

    There are a lot of scumbags out there, it’s too bad when you hear of this happening.

    sktrwx2200
    Posts: 727
    #1526369

    Sioux Falls and Brookings are 60 miles away from each other. Not sure how you can be SW of Brookings and West of SF? A more detailed whereabouts would help you guys in your search.

    chomps
    Sioux City IA
    Posts: 3974
    #1526374

    there’s profession guide services which follow the migration, I’d be hard pressed to blame a single truck and this area gets a bunch of traffic. Your on the right track to get the word out, there’s a couple Facebook profiles of South Dakota guide services to which you guys could post the description, kind of specific area, and what everyone needs to be on the look out for. Let us know.

    carver
    West Metro
    Posts: 611
    #1526406

    <div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Carver wrote:</div>
    What I don’t get is this. Why leave the spread in the field if your leaving for the night. If your hunting the same field (not that often we double dip) we sleep in the truck in the field. Or its 2 hrs max to pick up.

    Ummm….picking up 2,000-3,000 decoys just to put them out in the morning seems a little foolish to me. That’s at minimum an extra 5-6 hours of work every night. Also, it’s nice to sleep in a bed rather than the backseat of your truck.

    I do as well. I guess my style of snow goose hunting isn’t sitting in the same field day after day either, which means we are picking up and scouting for the next day, every day.

    Also pending where we hunt the time wasting driving to the hotel can get us an extra 2 hours of sleep in the truck.

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