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It's looking pretty snazzy. The blend from brown to grey on the chest is perfect, It's all about decoying birds. I just think about what triggers a variety of waterfowl species , usually that means contrast and field markings.

Here is a little paint pen tutorial. I've been talking a few guys through the use of paint pens privately lately. Let me say right up front I'm an expressionistic painter, especially when I'm painting hunting decoys which are nearly always flocked. I'm not interested in fine detail, but I am...

This is a decoy we produced in 2011. We molded, flocked and painted several hundred. I am really impressed with the flocking and how well it held up, at least until it was shot. I repaired 25 shot holes on this one decoy, re flocked it and repainted it. We know a lot more about airbrushing than...

I guess this will be the last hurrah for January 2026. It's the start of several days of painting on divers and then move on to a bunch of puddlers.

my wife grew up on a farm in Vandalia, Illinois. She was big into 4H for cooking and sewing and even raised a Hampshire pig every year to show at the fair. Her mom was the home economics teacher at the high school, so she was exposed to a lot of that kind of stuff as a kid. Now she is the...

My mom's family was dirt poor and food was pretty scarce for her 4 siblings and herself. They only had meat on birthdays so I guess her experience cooking meat was pretty limited. Her dad was a quarter Cherokee, an alcoholic, and gone most of her young life, my grandma was doing about anything...

I don't know if it's just me, but I don't have a problem eating most any duck. Usually it's a mix of ages and species when I cut up and brine my duck into finger steaks. A couple of things I routinely do in the blind, is NOT to put any of my ducks in a pile belly down which is so common in...

that's looking outstanding.

There you go, love them bufflehead. We only saw a handful this year, but we were covered up in bluebill and goldeneye.

that's right, you are retired now. Busier than every, but doing what you love to do rather than what you have to do. 19 degrees above here this morning, the shop is hovering around 54, so i put on a sweatshirt and a hooded fly fishing shirt and it was pretty comfy. i can remember going from...

That looks pretty ambitious. I can't turn around in the shop without running into a goldeneye. Our season ends a week from tomorrow and then a lot of them will either be sold or put away.