New Wind Decoy Revolutionizes Duck Hunting

Up until introduction of the WindWhacker decoy, waterfowl hunters had two choices for providing wing-motion attraction to their spread: either battery operated wing-moving decoys like Moto-Duck, or duck kites, that required a good breeze to make them operate. Early season use of battery-operated decoys is now illegal, and some waterfowlers never liked them in the first place And duck kites? Usually, by time the wind is blowing hard enough to fly a duck kite, the birds are flying well already!

Enter WindWhacker, invented by Rob Rohrke, new supporting member of OWAC. His invention will revolutionize waterfowling wing-movement decoys. This is a non-motorized wing-movement decoy that spins when even the slightest breeze hits it, and I mean a light breeze, even under 2 mph. Even a fog will move the blades, I found out in one hunt this past fall, when the light fog movement kept the blades turning full time.

And yes, they do work! Very well! Even better, I think, than battery operated decoys, because these blades hang from a support arm, and as the wind gusts or increases in velocity, the wings lift from the wind pressure. When it's gusty, the wings rotate and actually loft up and down, providing rotating black/white color and up and down movement. This is much more realistic than a battery operated wing-movement decoy that remains constant.

This past duck season has been the most productive I've had in 5 years, and I owe a lot of that success to using the new WindWhacker decoy.

Bill Karr