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Kansas-based mobile decoy company gets bowhunters close to action
14 Feb 2020
A Kansas decoy company is helping bowhunters get up close and personal with their target species.
Heads Up Decoy, based out of Hays, offers a variety of light-weight, portable decoys that are known for bringing deer, elk, moose and turkeys in close thanks to their photo-realistic cloth bodies, which are draped over support frames to keep the correct shape. These unique decoys can attach to a hunter’s bow, a tree or even be stood up in a cornfield or held by a fellow hunter.
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