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they look fantastic, I can't wait for the harvest reports.

That's a familiar story. I lost my dad and my chessie 7 years ago and it just took the wind out of my sails. I haven't duck hunted in 5 years now, but plan to hunt this year with my son's lab we got last fall and a bunch of new decoys we've made over the past year. The paint looks great on...

I finished these this morning and got them on the water feature, it sure is handy to have this little pond right outside of the shop door for float testing and photos. It was like herding cats this morning, pretty windy here. It was kind of like hockey kicking decoys back into play for a photo.

Here are a few foamers, double flocked and airbrushed. All white parts are hand painted. I do all the carving and customization and Caleb does the basic painting while on these I did some enhancements as far as head flecking and some other detailing.

I don't remember the murphy dome road going all the way out to Minto flats 45 years ago, of course we only had a plymouth colt 2 door that we drove to Alaska from Kansas and it really wasn't much of a hunting machine. We would run out to the murphy dome road on occasion to shoot a few ruffed...

That sure brings back some memories. 44 years ago my wife and I were dropped out in Minto Flats and left there a few days, it was quite an adventure. I built a decoy spread out of sticks and the ducks I shot as the morning went by. I voice called a canada and speck the first day and shot I...

We go through a lot of flocking, I'm impressed with the Flocking Unlimited product. It sifts so nice and shipping is free. Caleb and I flocked 100 pulsators in under 3 hours today. I'm sure glad to have him out here working with me again. We will get to do it again tomorrow. He works 4 ten...

Thanks Bob, I'm blushing. We all learn best when we can learn from each other. William and I bounce ideas off each other all the time, nearly every day. I'm always ready to learn something new, a new process or new material a better way to do things. There aren't a lot of people who make...

You are starting to do a little customization, here one of these days you are going to be carving on them all like I do. Making the decoys tough was a big issue when I started making them. There is nothing about my custom decoys that resembles anything of the original ones I was making in...

The flocking process is labor intensive, but reasonably simple. I can't imagine that there is anyone who has flocked as many decoys as we have over the past 20 years, some years as many as 5000. There have been so many changes in process, upgrades in materials and process. I've tried it all...

I'm going to call this post, "a day in the life". All this is going on in both my shop and the craft room in the house. It's for the most part normal procedure for things around here. My shop is nearly always cluttered, just too many things going on at the same time and using the same space...