Most goose hunters set out plastic. Western Waterfowl Outfitters hunts over more than 1,000 taxidermied Canada geese: real birds, mounted and used as decoys on our client hunts. It's the most realistic spread we know how to put in a field.

Why real geese fool wary birds

Real feathers, no plastic shine. Painted plastic can glint in low sun or when it frosts over. Real feathers have the soft, matte look of a live goose.
Exact size, shape and color. Every decoy is an actual goose, so the proportions, markings and colors match the birds overhead, with the natural bird-to-bird variation a real flock has.
Right from every angle. Geese circle and study a spread from above and from the side before they commit. A real bird looks right from all of them.
Something different for educated geese. By late season, Front Range geese have flown over a lot of plastic decoys of every style. A field full of real birds gives them something they haven't learned to flare from.

The scale: 1,000+ birds

More than 1,000 mounted geese go out as the spread on client hunts, and every decoy in our field spread is a real goose. When birds look down at one of our fields, they see what looks like a big flock of geese already feeding.