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It's always fun to see where we have been decades ago. I got a lot of carvings back from my dad after he passed and more recently my aunt who's husband collected dozens of my early carvings.

Here are some mature pintails my son sent out yesterday for me to clear eyes and detail the hen head. I think I'm leaving the decoy business in good hands. He still doesn't know how to carve and sculpt the decoys, that will be when it's cooler in the shop. He's a dental lab tech, so he knows...

I had been dreading the paint job on this pair for some time. I think I probably finished carving them nearly two months ago and have had the flocking done for a month or so. Painting something like this with an airbrush is a challenge for an old man with shaky hands. While Caleb does the...

My son Caleb just put some paint on some of my new sculpts. As usual, these are hunting decoys.

Fine looking work Bob. Some people follow the idea of accuracy by volume and some by precision. I don't compete with large decoy spreads in my stretch of the river, but I do compete with rafts of ducks in the thousands up and down river from me. Birds get wise to the typical 3 dozen plastic...

Nice group of coots, that's a lot of work.

My son, Caleb painted all the pintails, I painted the cross. The only thing I did on the pintails was the heads on the hens. He had the cross for several weeks and sent it back to me. I keep stretching him with stuff, but so far he's sent back the cross and a canvasback hen, and yesterday...

excellent information benp.

finished up this group of pintails today.

Oh the memories, Tow to wrap necks (raw burlap) and excelsior to wrap bodies. It was always a big score when something was shipped to the house packed with excelsior. Using a spoon scraper that was hand fashioned with a file to give it teeth. I did a lot of deer heads and largemouth bass...

Nicely done benp. The first bird I ever mounted was a wood duck, I was probably around 12 years old, and way above my ability. It was still in my dad's house when he died in 2017, it was about 45 years old, black marbles for eyes. At the time I had a taxidermy book written by Richard...

My son Caleb and I have been making decoys together for about 15 years, but he has only been responsible for painting a handful of species, mallards, black ducks, wigeons and pintails. I've started putting a lot of other species in front of him to flock and paint. This is the most recent, his...