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I used to have a guy I would take to my spot the first thursday following thanksgiving week. We had lots of mallards and wigeons back in those days. We had a mallard coming in and it was my turn to shoot, but a wigeon came streaking through underneath him. My friend knew I'd shoot the wigeon...

That mexican looks similar to the mottled I'm working on right now. All the bands make me sad, I've been duck hunting since 1967 and still haven't shot a banded anything although I have had a few collared wolves on my bear baits, wouldn't mind killing a few of those. I do pass on mallards most...

william, you will likely find that guys like us have a lot of different interests and are rarely satisfied unless we can improve on something or get creative. Everything I do usually rolls right back down hill to airbrushing. I've been airbrushing since 1981 and production airbrushing since...

This house does have two extra rooms. Our master bedroom is huge. the two guest rooms modest in size. I even mentioned today that I'm thinking about getting rid of the guest bed and she said what happens when we have company, you mean that one day a year that someone stays here. Sure I want...

I'm about to hit 45 years of marriage, I think I've just figured out that a lot of things just aren't worth the fight. Our last house had plenty of mounts in it and in the main room no less, I'm not sure what went wrong at the new house. I guess I should be thankful she likes the bear rugs...

Dax, I have one 6'x8' wall that I'm allowed to display my artwork and wood carvings. I call it the land of misfit toys since they are just carvings that never sold. I'm always being asked to make shelves, countertops, various decor around the house. Lots of my stuff just stays in the shop. I...

excellent taxidermy work. I guess I'm henpecked, but my wife doesn't allow my taxidermy work in the house other than my two bear rugs that hang on the wall. The rest spend their time in the garage just to die a slow dusty death.

When it comes to decoys, I'm a minimalist. While lots of folks approach decoys with the accuracy by volume idea, I just don't like hauling lots of decoys and the older I get the less decoys I apparently need. Usually I'll only have a pair of mallards and six to ten divers. I had a lot of fun...

glass eye source. I started buying cabochons from Amazon for my glass eyes years ago. I use 12 mm and 10 mm most of the time and paint my own using oil based enamel. I'm rarely satisfied with the range of eye color available and end up needing a custom color or a size that's not available...

William gave a good description of how we do it. He's working with molded foamers, I'm working with carved and burlapped foamers. Molded foamers have somewhat of a shell, carved foamers do not, thus the addition of the burlap layers. While transitions in color is primarily a product of...