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excellent work, who says an old dog can't learn new tricks. It's really nice to have decoys that big that don't weigh anymore than a plastic duck decoy. The head positions are great too.

Thanks guys. You can blame William for my presence here. We collaborate on a lot of things. He suggested this was a good place to camp out with friends. Making decoys is a creative outlet for me, but I do a lot of other things to pay the bills. I consider myself a multimedia...

my dad used danish oil almost exclusively on the wood work he made. I had a friend in kansas that always used tru oil, so that's what I used on this landing net. The wood came from the family farm, my dad traded a few black walnut trees to a mobile saw mill that used a vacuum kiln on his wood...

What kind of oil are you using on the shotgun stock. I use Birchwood Casey Tru Oil on my landing nets. I usually put on 8 coats and an additional coat each year to cover dings. My son was a fly fishing guide for 4 years and had the boat nets out nearly every day for 5 months a season, never...

I absolutely hate possums. At about 25 years old I moved my family into the homestead after my grandpa passed. I was a very serious trapper, but only had time after the move to set traps on our place and the neighbors place, about one full section of ground in southeast Kansas. It hadn't been...

we are going to have to get william to mold up some full bodies.

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...

beautiful mounts Noah.

William, black bear is excellent table fare when it's taken care of properly. That kind of goes with any wild game to some extent. Now mule deer, canada goose, and a few ducks I won't mention are what I call sausage hunts.

My dad killed several banded birds when I was young, he reported the bands and then dropped them in the trash. I'm pretty sure my son has no idea where his bands are, one of them is floating around my house. They will let you keep the collar from a wolf after they take the good stuff out of...

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...