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We would hear that whistling half way back to town in the truck after a morning of hunting GE. Barrows have a different sound to their whistle than commons, a lower buzzing whistle, maybe a richer sound, we have lots of barrows around and have had for 20 years, maybe more. People don't notice...

If you are painting a smooth surface decoy whether it's a slick of fine feathering. You don't want to use oil based paint pens, they are strictly what I use for flocked decoys. They are glossy on smooth surfaces, but not on flocking. So if it's a smooth surface, it's better to paint by hand...

Goldeneye, far and away my favorite duck to hunt. That's a fine decoy Matt

excellent, looks like a good amount of progress.

from packing the brain case with tow (raw burlap) wrapping the neck wire with tow, forming the body with wet excelsior wrapped with heavy duty thread. It all seems a lifetime ago. When I was in my late twenties I started molding my own foam bodies for turkey mounts and made a mold for a...

Those feet look very good. That has to solve a lot of time consuming problems. Not just the look, but pulling tendons and dealing with broken legs and shot holes. I started doing taxidermy in a class I talked the zoology teacher into offering in 1976, I was kind of shocked the admin approved...

I never do that crazy detail on my personal duck decoys. It's totally unnecessary from a decoying standpoint. The standard decoys were were selling all last summer had no flecking, just like this. This black duck head is buff, black, and some brown and white. Simple and effective. These...

Oh, gimme a break, that's small potatoes. Just wait till she finds the pampered chef spatula in the shop, that was pretty bad. However when I asked her where my walking cane went, she had no idea. I found it today hanging on her bedside clothes hanger, hmm. None of my mounts are in the house...

That makes a lot of sense. All the growth would be mostly in the 4 months. My guess when you are cutting stuff out you have the fuel to keep the house and shop warm. We lived 19 years in our last house in Boise before moving out of the city, it had a little wood stove and a loft upstairs...

How does that white spruce carve?

There is certainly a learning curve to using an airbrush. I got my first airbrush at Sears in Fairbanks in 1981. I pulled it out of the box, I don't even remember what kind of paint I was using, kind of thinking model paint. I tried it for a couple of hours and gave up. I didn't pull it back...

I've been pretty fortunate to be able to make a living doing something I enjoy for nearly my entire adult life. I am slowing down, or at least thinking about slowing down. Thanks to the encouragement from William over the past year, he's kind of lit the fire again and we are doing all kinds...

SJ, that's what I keep telling William, he's still young. I started airbrushing at 22 years old with a single action Badger, I switched to a double action at 33 and painted full time for the next 14 years wholesaling fish head and tail salt and pepper shakers. That was over 20,000 hours by the...

I've been doing some color mixing after talking to the folks at Flocking Unlimited. I used bisque tan flocking and brown flocking to get a little orange into the brown paint and I am fairly pleased with the color I got for a base on the redhead hens. The flocking unlimited people suggested...