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That drake on the right is the first duck I've shot in the last 5 years. My chessie and my dad died in 2017 and it kind of took the wind out of my duck hunting sails. I thoroughly enjoyed today with my son and grandson and new spastic lab pup on his first retrieve.

success with the new GE

I think it looks just fine to hunt over.

I finished up a redhead this morning. Still adding more species. It's about all we can do when there are no ducks of any kind around.

here are those heads completed.

it's a western grebe, I think the clark's grebe has white surrounding the eye. It was not a confidence decoy like a heron might be, but a food source. Wigeons don't wear that mask for nothing, they are bandits and are notorious for feeding on food other fowl have brought up from deep water...

sometimes you've got to think outside the box.

The first redhead is flocked and ready for airbrush, although it would hunt just fine like it is. I always paint the bills by hand with full strength rustoleum in gloss the appropriate color, in this instance it will be a slate blue to start and then airbrush, that will make the paint on the...

I'm probably looking at getting new waders in the next year or so. I bought some breathable waist high waders 600 insulation in the boot foot from Cabelas where my wife was working back in 2012. I had neoprene before these breathable waist high waders I have now. Once I got the breathables...

green heads on our mallard drakes certainly isn't wrong, but getting the black black is hard to do with paint, that's why I start with black flocking. When you look through photos of mallards, there can be a hint of green all the way to a strong bright green highlight depending on the light...

I'm assuming this is/was green rayon flocking. Rayon will fade and is not made for outdoor use. I don't flock my mallard drake heads green. I'll airbrush the green over the black flocking. One of the things I try to do in flocking is do it as if I'm not going to airbrush it. when you...