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50 below can really get your attention, but usually it's calm out, when the wind starts to blow it's usually warming up, but that's a relative term. I'm pretty good up to 25 below, still could walk a trapline or shoot grouse if the gun will still fire. Driving around the block to round out...

my best guess is I flock about 500 decoys a year. As far as gadwalls go, oil based paint pens are your friend for painting the chest and vermiculation.

yep, I remember it well.

congratulations on retirement. I don't miss those -50 degree days one bit.

Flocking day, I flocked first coats on 16 of these this morning. Here is how I decide on the color for first coats. Whatever flocking I have the most of which is brown and whatever paint I have the most of, which is brown. In other words, it really doesn't matter, the first coat is mainly the...

If I remember correctly I think the calf was going to be a predator calling decoy. My dad shot some snow geese one time probably in the 40's by walking beside a horse drawn hay wagon into a field of snow geese. I never asked, but always wondered how the ride was in the wagon after the shots...

what is the most outrageous thing you've flocked. Here are a couple crazy jobs I've done,

From Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SFGNMJ5?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_4&th=1 I was needing eyes that were clear so I could custom color a few pairs of Oldsquaw eyes. I bought some clear eyes from a taxidermy supply and they looked exactly the same as these cabochons...

Apoxie Sculpt is the way I have set my eyes forever, Almost all of my decoys are foam, even the heads. Once burlapped I'll drill a shallow hole the size of the eye and press the eye into the hole. Since I paint my own eyes, I don't put anything behind them, just smooth out a little ball of...