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I saw a meat eater clip where the cooked a red breasted merganser and the said it was good. I intentionally won’t shoot them because I have been reluctant to eat them. I have a very acute sense of smell and can’t even hold them in my hand let alone skin one. It is actually a curse. Though...

I started maybe ten years ago after attending the ODCCA show with my late friend Jon Yenulonis. At the time I was doing a fair amount of duck hunting and was moving more towards the overall experience. Duck hunting has been in my family for several generations and my dad and grandfather made...

I ran out of decoys to paint today so I started another cork ringer in the woodshop with some numb fingers. Of course cork is not quite as easy to handle as pink foam. What does everyone else use to carve cork? I used my rasp, foredome, and sandpaper. This is only my second cork decoy (no...

March 21st in Ohio. Ohio decoy carvers and collector association. Big show, lots of great collectors. Anyone else going? If so let’s meet up for a drink!

This continues to be a great option for me Don. In my experiments so far I am having better luck with consistent pupils using the end of a small paint brush dipped in black paint that I did with the paint pen. Just fyi for anyone else.

Again I went to the Steve Sanford site for paint advice. I’m working on three more of them now.

Finall product.

I compromised tonight.

I was happy to finish this one tonight. I dread doing hens but Steve Sanford has such great info. I sent the picture to some friends and they couldn’t ID it though. Lol.

I’ll be honest that’s right up the alley of what I want to get to some day.

Are the feather details on the body of this made up of many individual brush strokes?