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Well, I have over 300 decoys in 2/3rds of a 3 car garage that acts as the main shop and another converted guest room that I do a lot of hand painting in. Of those 300 decoys, none of them are mine, all in various stages of incompleteness. My personal decoys are in the mower shed, maybe a...

that's a bunch of good looking decoys. My shop is similar looking, decoys everywhere.

that's a dandy Mark

What i use is determined by what we plan to target. What I want is a 12 slot bag of every species we chase, so that would be 12 slots with Redheads, barrows GE, Common GE, bufflehead, ringer, wigeon, lesser scaup, ruddy, canvasback, oldsquaw, wood duck, and shoveler. We don't have hardly any...

I wished I got that response from my wife. Once in a great while she will latch on to something. I think she's just around my stuff so much that she's no impressed anymore. Most of the time she doesn't even know what I'm making at the time. Any carvings we have are because I refused to sell...

it's about time to head up to mile 43 and catch some grayling isn't it? We have another stretch of freezing overnight next week. I hope my potatoes keep their little head below ground a little longer. It's always a gamble on when to plant. Two years in a row we've had a hard frost on June...

I took my neighbor on the farm next to ours in Kansas 40 years ago to one of my turkey spots late one morning after the hens were down. He was toting a double barrel 10 ga. with 3.5 inch 5's. I helped him to cross a fence in two places, holding the gun for him. Whoa, it weighed 11 lbs. I...

excellent Matt. I really need to make a flyer bufflehead, my wife will likely say as she usually does on stuff like that, "where are you going to put that thing. My response is usually "apparently in someone else's house".

Your paint schemes are a valuable asset to us all. I have an 11 year old grandson that went with us this year and he did just what I hoped he would, he cherished the ducks we shot, inspecting them commenting on their color and the shape of the bills. I think he was more impressed with a 2nd...

William Reinicke invited me, I had a belly full of that other forum. It's been more peaceful here.

I mentioned in another post regarding time of day. We always did better late morning and afternoon for big toms. Some states don't allow turkey hunting past noon. Once the hens go down for the day on a nest, the toms are much easier to call. All my clients shot either #5 or #6 in a pretty...

Speaking of 20 ga. I traded a carving for a 20 ga Savage over and under 22mag over 3" 20 ga. My wife wanted to go turkey hunting with me and we needed a pretty short gun, she's 5' tall. We got her some 3" #4 shot, I generally use #5 in 3" in my 12 ga. After getting her through hunter...

The biggest deal about hunting turkeys is having turkeys to hunt. The second is having a place no one is going to screw you up. The third is probably what Wyatt already told you, stay still, I swear they can see you blink, but for the most part my dad and I could talk quietly with birds right...

four more poses finished today. This is more my style for buffleheads, way more hens than drakes.

I'm fortunate that way, it's about all I do, never had a "real job" since about 1982.