The Best Deer Decoys for 2025

1. Most Portable: Whitetail Buck Decoy from Heads Up Decoy 

Price: $99.99 

The Whitetail Buck Decoy from Heads Up Decoy is lightweight and foldable, weighing in at only fourteen ounces. This decoy doesn’t take up much room in a pack and is built to suit mobile and stationary ambush hunters alike.

High visibility and detachable antlers add flexibility to your tactics and allow this decoy to be used as either a buck or a doe. With an optional bow mount or stand-alone clamp (both sold separately) for hands-free use, this deer decoy excels for solo hunts when calling and rattling during aggressive spots and stalks when bucks are in the lockdown phase of the rut and defending receptive does.

2. Most Realistic: Posturing Buck from Dave Smith Decoys 

Price: $649.99

The Posturing Buck from Dave Smith Decoys is our pick for the most realistic decoy. Long known for their ultra-realistic turkey and waterfowl product lines, Dave Smith Decoys continues to make their decoys in the USA.

The aggressive posturing in stance and attitude in the ears and body of this life-size decoy triggers a challenging response to any dominant bucks in the area looking for a fight. It comes with a field stake but can come with an optional field base ($49.99) for use on frozen or hard ground. 

Made with soft A.C.E. 2.0 material, this deer decoy is quiet when transported through the woods. At 35 pounds, it is the heaviest and most expensive decoy on the list. However, the level of realism makes up for any of those limitations and could be what it takes to fool the buck of a lifetime.

3. Best Bang for Your Buck: Montana Whitetail Dream Team Decoy Combo

Price: $129.99 

The Montana Whitetail Dream Team Decoy Combo is a buck and doe duo that gives hunters the most situational opportunities for their dollar to use throughout the hunting season.

Use the single doe as cover as you spot-and-stalk in open terrain or staked out as a confidence decoy in feeding situations during the late season. This cloth-printed combo is great during the peak rut when any dominant buck will take offense to this younger buck tending to what he thinks is a receptive female.

4. Best Doe: Flambeau Mates Series Grazing Doe

Price: $165.99

The Flambeau Maters Series Grazing-Doe is a true-to-life size doe that works great as a confidence decoy, as the anatomically correct feeding pose will put other deer at ease.

The lug and keyhole leg attachment design sets up quickly, and the legs and head fit in the body cavity for easy storage and transportation. However, carrying the decoy through the woods may be noisy.

Opposable ears allow you to set the mood and adjust the attitude the decoy presents to other deer to best suit your specific hunting situation. 

5. Best for Stalking: Ultimate Predator Whitetail Deer Stalker Decoy

Price: $84.95

Stalking decoys have been all the rage in western archery pronghorn and elk hunting circles for years, and now they’ve made their way into the whitetail woods. The Ultimate Predator Whitetail Deer Stalker Decoy

is a hands-free system with a built-in shooting window and optional weapon mounting systems to conceal your approach.

Built-in high visibility orange safety straps help you stay safe in the field and optional antlers add versatility by allowing you to display a doe or buck.