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This past weekend, Copley Auctions (Massachusetts) held an online decoy auction with a Schmiedlin goose as one of their lot offerings. Jim only made 4 Canadian geese, one is held by the Schmiedlin family, a second sold at auction in 2012 for 24K, fourth one-whereabouts unknown. The underside...

I had come across this carving on another "blog" site and was so impressed with the artistic license and freedom this young man took with this decoy/decor. I contacted him (Joshua Hinton) and got his OK to post here. He's a Native American member of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma, a duck...

This past summer, Debra Schmiedlin exhibited a display of her late husbands decoys at the July "Copley" decoy auction in Plymouth, MA. Kudos to the Schmiedlin family/friends for continuing to share Jim's legacy. Debra is also an advocate and fundraiser for the ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease)...

Sean is the featured carver this year at the Great Lakes Decoy Assn. show in Westlake, OH - Mar. 16-18. Sean hasn't been posting much here lately and I'm looking forward to seeing a display of a flock of his decoys. The GLDA show is the following weekend after the ODCCA Strongsville, OH show...

I received my new issue (Mar-Apr) of Hunting Fishing Collectibles magazine today and was pleased to find a great 6 page article on Duckboats frequent contributor, Vince Pagliaroli. Great article regarding Vince's canvas on wood slat decoys with a tutorial. Congrats Vince ! Ken Zaborski

Just checked out Jode Hillman's website www.hillmandecoys.com . On his homepage is a link to a 13 min. video interview with Jode in his shop. He is doing some carving and sharing his thoughts and ideas regarding the "art of the decoy". Enjoyed this. Good stuff Jode ! Ken Zaborski

I have available 9 new first edition copies of Loy Harrell Jr's book published 2007. Loy approached 60 decoy carvers who were making gunning decoys and published 3 photos of their decoys in his book, with the stipulation that one be a drake wood duck. Duckboats members in the book include Keith...

Recently received the latest issue of "Decoy Magazine" (Sept-Oct). Thought I'd give a shout out to duckboats member, Kevin Wharton, who has an article in the issue featuring his decoys. Kevin: Congratulations - enjoyed the article - great looking birds. Ken Zaborski

Mint condition, never been in water. Probably carved @ 2005-06. Both heads turned slightly right, raised cross-carved wing tips and carved tail flutes. Very lightly hollowed. Beautiful detailed feather paint. Leather ties and lead stamped weights, hand signed in pen under tails. Will include a...

If anyone can attend this Sun. at the Utica, IL show, please stop by and say hello. I'll have a table there. Info @muddywaterdecoys.com. Click on "blog" . Ken Zaborski

Came across this 8 1/2 min. video documenting recent CA duck-goose hunting. Sorry I'm unable to post a direct link. Go to website "westcoast-decoys.com" and click on CANA OUTDOORS icon on main page. It took a minute or so to upload video. Ken