Recent content by Don Mintz

This is my 9th year not bear hunting, no one interested in going with me or asking me to tag along. Granted I'm not much help anymore, but I am a great skinner. I'm pretty content to sit in the shop and make decoys, there are never enough hours in the day. It's 70 today, too nice to work, but...

with recent fiascos and delayed shipments, I'll probably switch to flocking unlimited myself. as long as it's nylon, I don't much care where it comes from. I'm not real sure it was an age that my wife started wanting me to not be by myself, I think it might have been coming to Idaho when I...

Ron, I think everyone has a carving they can't let go of or wished they hadn't. People don't often recognize the amount of time we have in our wood carvings. I'd be money ahead to be a greeter at Walmart when it comes to my decorative stuff. I rarely sell wood carvings, but do give them away...

I got a few wigeons in the pond this morning. I finished 10 with two more hens to paint today or tomorrow. They all floated upright, so that's a good sign.

that goose is beautiful Ron. The only geese I've carved in wood were a few for Tanglefree, they weighed a ton, but were designs and wouldn't be hunted.

that about sums it up. It was about 15 years ago that I heard a company talking about flocking decoys, they were only flocking heads. I thought it was hogwash, mainly because that was what everyone else was saying at the time. I had been making custom carved foamers for a few years at that...

I won't hunt with decoys that aren't flocked

White through the airbrush on flocking is a problem child. it's just not going to cover in a single session. I'm usually painting lots of decoys at the same time and can cycle back after a few hours and brighten things up, but usually it takes overnight to firm up for some enhancement...