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Some pretty slabs there!

I just started doing some hollow birds this past year. My only guide was Grayson's book. Good to see some of the folks much more experienced than I doing things pretty much the same as I am... or at least they were 13 years ago.

I'll be honest I had never heard of that site until a week or two ago. Someone on the fuge posted a link to it for some reason I can't remember. I've looked at quite a few pictures since while painting decoys.

https://www.ejphoto.com/mottled_duck_page.htm Never had one in hand before either so this is the best I can do. I assume you've probably already seen these though. Personally I'd paint it orange.

For as far back as I can remember the only 2 things in this life I ever really knew I wanted to be was a duck hunter and decoy carver. Being from right in the middle of Back Bay/Currituck Sound area decoys and duck hunting pretty much ends up in every locals life or heritage somehow. Oddly...

Now I understand why The Fuge has a very strict super-mod enforced no comments policy on the meme thread over there.

I used subscribe and membership because I didn't know what word to use at the moment. Feel free to replace with whatever word you deem appropriate. I don't pay a dime for any of it so to me it is free.

A 13 month old thread that up until 2 weeks ago had what 15 posts? I don't give money here or the fuge, guess I'm the cheapskate/bad guy.

I'm a member of 1 other forum. I don't see adds there either. I look at both forums in an ad blocker. It's free. Yes I was serious but I guess kinda tongue in cheek. I figured there was some paid memberships or what have you just like the other forum but I don't subscribe to either. Y'all do...

I don't see ads anywhere.

Only took 13 months for you to get in trouble over the mildest meme thread in the history of meme threads... or at least the ones on duck "related" forums. Also you guys are paying to see this stuff?? :unsure:

What is that round rasp in the second picture?

You can knock the corners off the block with a band saw or a knife, black cork can be a little tough on a carving knife blade. Then shape with a rasp and sandpaper.

And its always far crueler than any of man's ways.

Painted that black yesterday. I like the head but I'm not sure about the body.

As I recall they did kinda bunch up. Was maybe 6-8, can't remember exactly. They came right on the water off my partners side. I had to let the first couple get far enough past him to call the shot. By the time I did the lead bird that I came up on lit. While I'm not opposed in the least to...

I've pulled the trigger exactly once in my life on a brant. The one and only time I was fortunate enough to hunt the curtain blinds off Ocracoke about 7-8 years ago (not deep pockets ben just lucky to get an invite). One bird limit so I had to watch the rest of the flock leave. Could have easily...

I can't speak for Mark but it looks that way to me. My $.02 on black duck decoys is usually less is more on the body. I've always painted mine with just a solid dark brown with a little bit of detail on the back and tail to break it up. To me the detail is so subtle its hard to try to put...