Im a pretty happy guy....

[chris whitney]

I have been on a quest to get to a complete cork / carved rig for a few years. I have built a nice jersey puddle duck rig and had started a good diver rig. I bid on and won really nice rig of mike smyser redheads and buffleheads. I purchased 15 redheads and 14 buffleheads that range in age from 1991 to 2001. They are nicer than i could have imagined, as i bought them from the zeb auction in virgina a few weeks back. All of the redheads are rigged, but i believe not hunted. The buffleheads are six hunted and eight never rigged.

View attachment C8BB7CEE-66EF-4EE3-B4D5-76CD275508B6.jpegView attachment 79F5BF32-3072-42C5-ABB2-0BEAEEACBBEB.jpeg

 

[Eric Patterson]

Chris

Congrats on the rig. They look to be in really good shape, and Mike's styling is excellent in my book.

Eric

 

[Henry Baynum]

Chris congrads on the awesome rig I won the wasson & wasson decoys but on sad note sorry I bidded the smysers up!

 

[Henry Baynum]

But I must admit you got a great deal on some awesome decoys

 

[chris whitney]

My regret was letting the canvasbacks go! I ended up at about $50 a decoy for the whole rig shipped.....cant complain about that!

 

[Steve Sanford]

Chris~


Congratulations on a very sweet rig!


All the best,


SJS

 

[J. Overland]

Beautiful rig!

 

[Carl]

Made me smile Just seeing the pics!
Great dekes and sounds like you got them at a great price.

 

[george w]

Chris, just to let you know, those are all of WILEY cork, and you should get a few generations of use out of them. Nice find!

 

[Eric Patterson]

George

With Wiley long gone what cork are you using these days?

Eric

 

[RLLigman]

I always liked Mike's decoys, particularly his redheads and scaup. Congratulations.

 

[Riley Dabling]

Wow what an awesome rig. Congrats

 

[tod osier]

I believe that rig has gotten around. Did you get any history on it? I am pretty sure I saw it nearly 20 years ago.

 

[chris whitney]

they are stamped on the keels "DPC" . I got no history on them...but, I can tell you it will be many years before they get sent down the road. I can guarantee they wont be as pretty as they are today... []

 

[Vince Pagliaroli]

Ya did good Chris.

Mr. Smyser makes mighty fine gunning decoys, and they will serve you well for many a season.


Being a little long in the tooth.

I can't recall going to a decoy show, and NOT seeing Mr. Smyser working away, and doing what the lord intended him to do.

Have always wanted to sit and have a long chat with him, but I hate to interrupt a guy when he is working. So I usually just watch.

Masters always make things look easy that are not.


VP