Goin' turkey hunting soon...

Hitch

Hitch

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If I can get caught up at work. This showed up at the door yesterday, and I want to get the stick in some dirt anyway.

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It's a full size Hen Osceola turkey decoy stick up carved of basswood and hand painted. It's hollow and splits vertically down the center. The two halves are dowel pinned together and the head and stake store inside. It comes with a butternut display stand for when at home. The maker is David Constantine and this is 1 of 1, David's first Osceola out of dozens he's made.

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Nice Hitch! I hope you bag one. We leave Florida tomorrow after a week of soaking up your sun. The Gulf is gorgeous. Batteries are fully recharged ready to go home and bag a big tom myself...
 
Not only is the carving and painting very cool, but the unique design is ingenius.


I can't help but say that this reminds me of the Steve Sutton/Scott O. collaboration 6 or 7 years ago... the somewhat forgettable, Swiss Army Egret.

No where close but maybe as a very distant relative :-)

...and Sutton will probably deny that he had any part in that project but for the record, he supplied the basic pattern and the final name.

I was the "brains" behind the foldup feature

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Not only is the carving and painting very cool, but the unique design is ingenius.


I can't help but say that this reminds me of the Steve Sutton/Scott O. collaboration 6 or 7 years ago... the somewhat forgettable, Swiss Army Egret.

No where close but maybe as a very distant relative :-)

...and Sutton will probably deny that he had any part in that project but for the record, he supplied the basic pattern and the final name.

I was the "brains" behind the foldup feature
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So I gotta ask: how does Egret taste? :-)>
 
The obvious answer to that question is " A little like bald eagle, but more like condor"

:-)

It was intended to be a confidence decoy. There are a lot of them around the Saginaw Bay area.
 
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It was INTENDED to be a confidence decoy? Does that mean it's doesn't instill much confidence? That's a cool decoy though.

Dani
 
I PERSONALLY always felt very confident when using the thing, but thats just me...I can't speak for the ducks.

The original plan was to carve a full body decoy and Steve sent me his pattern. Since I can't carve for beans, the project immediately took another path and Voila! Swiss Army Egret

Sorry Hitch... not intending to hijack the thread. I think your decoy is about as cool a turkey decoy as I have ever seen.
 
Hitch neat looking decoy,lots a luck .I drew the last week in del. in sussex co. after that 2-weeks up clinton co pa. at my cabin on beech creek Mn't can't whait. ducking is #1 and Turkey #2
 
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