Anyone ever used the MOJO Mallard Machine?

I find many aspects of duck hunting to be a pain in the arse

We have one at our place but it just stays out. It works well.

We have one in the rice field and it doesn't work very well. I think the water isn't deep enough to make the deeks look like they are feeding. The prop just spins in the middle and makes large bubbles which still creates ripples but its not what I expected.

Definately dig a hole underneath it. Before I dug a hole, the water on my farm was not very deep, and the prop kept getting full of grass and old crops, then seize up.

I don't have the MOJO mallard maching, but I made a few motion decoys last season that worked pretty well. I used a duck but and attatched a bilge pump to the bottom with pvc on the discharge to make the bubbles/ripples. Made a water proof box to hold the battery. All hard wired, plug it in and go.

We never pick ours up. The biggest benefit is it puts motion on the entire spread of there's no wind blowing. which means it works best on calm days.

They work great for us in the timber. We leave ours wired up to our blind all season. Just take the 12v deep cycle battery out to recharge at night. They save your arse when there is little to no wind blowing.

If there's a current and your decoys move, there's no need for it, really.

You may have to anchor it. If it drifts into the other decoys it can be a major PITA. If it's windy you don't need it. Only hit it when they aren't looking. I've seen people get excited with them and they flared the ducks. If there is alot of vegetation in the water it can hang the prop up, especially in rice fields.