Decoy?

[22lex]

Can you use a deer decoy during any of the MN gun seasons?

Currently having a debate on this subject, and maybe someone on here knows if there is a rule against/for decoys during a gun season in MN.

[HD]

Dunno if there are rules on it....
But the neighbor used one during rifle season, it had a blaze orange jacket on it so it, or he, didn't get shot.

[22lex]

There aren't any rules against it that I have found, just second or third hand knowledge saying it was illegal. I personally have used them during the gun seasons, but have always put a orange hat on 'em.

[Moving2thecountry]

I was thinking about getting some friends together, setting up a replica, and filming road shooters who try to poach it, then posting it on youtube.  Would be funny.  Vigilante candid camera.

[22lex]

I had one set up about 400 hundred yards off the road on a low spot in a picked cornfield a few years back. Put the old orange hat on it, located myself way off to the side in case someone was to come up over the hill and take a poke at it, and waited.

Thought I was the only person who could see it, but soon found out that I wasn't as every single road hunter that drove by took their time, and some even stopped and got out and used their bino's. Funny, but sure annoying after a while.

[HUNTER2]

I have never seen any rules saying you cant use them. I'm guessing when they made the rules they didn't have any you could buy. It is fun watching the deer around them.