Rick Pierce

Oh my giddy aunt... Wish I had the funds to bid on that baby...

The wind blew and the duck hunters died on the Upper Mississippi in the Armistice Day Storm. MacQuarrie's and others' accounts are...

Sitting here on a pothole thinking I get to do this because of a veteran. Thank you all!

Where were they based out of? The skiffs make me think upper Midwest...

It came, it came, it came from Spain. Literally, I finally got my hands on a Mullins Stamped Steel Boats catalog. I found several here...

Oscar Carroll of Back Bay, VA decoy carving fame used cypress knees for all his decoy bodies 100 years ago. Lends itself to some neat...

Worth, I didn't know that DH was in that storm...that's amazing. There's a decoy collector that has some decoys (carved by Heck...

He did. Since he was an outdoor writer for a newspaper up there, he wrote about it. When you read the accounts, it's a horror story...

I believe Gordon MacQuarrie also wrote about the storm.

Dave Hagerbaumer was in that storm. He and a friend barely made it off an island where they were hunting. He wrote about it in his book...

I have tried quite a few mills in the UP to get wood for a similar project. The problem I run into is they never have lengths longer...

Prior owner strip built my melonseed. You could also use Western Red Cedar. That is what Independence Seaport used to plank Silent Maid...

White cedar is pretty much a perfect wood for boats. I don't know of anything native with similar density, durability, and mechanical...

Eric, Glad I'm too old to offer you any help in your loading, flipping, stacking and stickering project. :cool::ROFLMAO:

Lord...I wouldn't want to carry six hickory decoys...even hollow...much less try to carve it... With what they've done to our hardwoods...