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William Reinicke
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Dont get many of them here. I have killed one stud but I was 17 yro and didnt think anything of it. Every once in awhile I will come across that pic and I kick myself for not doing something with that bird. My buddy killed a good one a couple years ago. I am still patiently waiting for another moon face to make the mistake. I still have never killed a cinnamon teal either. They're here, but I just never seem to be around them late season when they are perfect. I am sure I have shot many during early teal season. Same with bluewings, but getting those perfect late season studs has been tough for me.
I couldnt imagine the language being flown around when that freezer door opened. I would of been sick... not from the smell either.
William Reinicke
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This mount would be SAWWEEETT!!!! As much as you travel and find different species, you could make that happen in a season or two I am sure.
STUDS!!!! And I mean STUDS!!!! That dark deep blue is my favorite. I know if I asked the better half which one, she would say the turquoise goes with the southwest theme more and like that color better for a mount. I would just do an eye roll and probably get both mounted at that point lol.
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Noah Shaver
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I picked the blue one too
Noah Shaver
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Thank you Don, we are lucky to have a world champion waterfowl taxidermist right down the street. Actually have two of them in the area. Prices are high but I am willing to pay it on those "once in a lifetime" birds
I get requests for fulvous and black bellies frequently, apparently their range is expanding. It's very difficult to get good references of those types of ducks sitting on the water like a typical decoy. Is the top bird a mottled? I'm getting mixed up in the discussion of mottled and mexican. I'm making one right now and need a good view of a speculum. I'm pretty sure the last mottled I did my reference had the greener version of blue. It's hard to take many of the reference photos off the internet seriously because they are so often mis labeled.
William Reinicke
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Don that of Noah's mount is of a mottled duck. If you go back a few posts, he is showing off the speculum difference between two mottled ducks and now they can vary. I personally like the deep dark blue and he did as well and that is the one he elected to have mounted. So that is 100% a stud mottled duck you can see and reference.
Noah Shaver
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Don, the ducks I posted on this thread are mottled ducks, I don't have any good up close pictures of the Mexican ducks we shot. The mottleds will have variations in speculum color from deep blue to a bright turquoise color, really just depends on the duck. Most lean towards the blue end of the spectrum though.
On the whistlers, the reason it is so hard to find good reference material of Black Bellies on the water is because they are hardly ever swimming. I have only hunted them the last 3 years or so but every single time I have seen black belly whistling ducks out on the marsh they are standing and feeding in the grass. Whistling ducks are actually more closely related to swans - they aren't ducks at all. An accurate decoy representation for Black bellies is a standing decoy. I have some silhouettes that I can't wait to try out if I get drawn this season.
Fulvous whistling ducks on the other hand will spend time swimming in the water. Floating decoys are an accurate representation of their habits, but quite a few of them will be standing in the grass as well. They are more apt to decoy to water than black bellies, but it depends on the habitat.
The ideal whistling duck decoy spread would have only a handful of decoys floating in open water, the rest would be a full body or silhouette style decoy standing in the grass in shallow water. Here's a picture of how most Black Bellies will decoy. Not to deep water, but to shallow water they can stand in
On the whistlers, the reason it is so hard to find good reference material of Black Bellies on the water is because they are hardly ever swimming. I have only hunted them the last 3 years or so but every single time I have seen black belly whistling ducks out on the marsh they are standing and feeding in the grass. Whistling ducks are actually more closely related to swans - they aren't ducks at all. An accurate decoy representation for Black bellies is a standing decoy. I have some silhouettes that I can't wait to try out if I get drawn this season.
Fulvous whistling ducks on the other hand will spend time swimming in the water. Floating decoys are an accurate representation of their habits, but quite a few of them will be standing in the grass as well. They are more apt to decoy to water than black bellies, but it depends on the habitat.
The ideal whistling duck decoy spread would have only a handful of decoys floating in open water, the rest would be a full body or silhouette style decoy standing in the grass in shallow water. Here's a picture of how most Black Bellies will decoy. Not to deep water, but to shallow water they can stand in
William Reinicke
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