Like Yogi Berra said, " You can observe a lot just by watching."

Very cool! Never though about something like that. I guess it's also a way to reuse old/battered leaking plastic decoys?
 
Thats a first for me I never heard the word picklweed before dam I guess I'm not to old to still learn something new those heads look great and the carrying case is also apiece work all are very nice.
 
Th BB PHs are sweet Bob. They were on the coffee table in our Hospitality Suite at the Atlantic Flyway Conference all last week. The Atlantic Flyway Committee met at the Hilton St. Pete, and UW-F had the 13th Floor Parlor Room decked out with pretty much all my decoys and books, and and open bar that our members in the Tampa area kept well stocked for the committee members and conference attendees all last week. But the hit of the show in the room were the Blackbelly picklehead decoys on the Coffee Table.

Bob, you sent me the photo of the Hagerbaumer print in the book about the same time I found it in my copy in the room. I had to tell the whole story of "Picklehead decoys" probably at least a dozen times during the week.

Anyway, I'm trying to get out to the marsh for some more camera hunting so they will go with me for sure.

Thanks for first dibs, as it were.

Tim, they're about 1" thick, or there about.

Hitch
 
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Beautiful stuff Bob. Those are very nice pickleweeds the ones Sutton has however are pickleheads. Since he hates when they are referred to as pickleheads then he will probably want to ditch them. Steve, I will trade you a pair of fulvous deeks for those pickleheads!
 
Ron! You don't have first dibs on Sutton's pickleheads....I DO!!!!! You gotta get through me FIRST to get em.....bwahahahaha

besides....he'll just think up some other word that he likes better and ignore the rest of us and whatever else we call them.
 
Did I call them Pickleheads at some point? Wouldn't doubt it but don't recall doing it....I figure I'm okay though even if I did since "some people" I know still say things like, "Woodrows" and "Hoodrows" and "Ringers" and "Pinners" and "Mottles"........

Ron...did you do the photo hunt you were talking about a week or so ago? Show us whatchagot....

Steve
 
You forgot "mallets" and "malletheads"

By the way Bob, if I didn't make it perfectly clear...those are fantastic. Regal is a good word to describe the entire package.
 
Steve, I remember your displeasure in the past when people would call them "pickle heads". I figured if I could convince you that they were in fact "pickle heads" then you might want to get rid of them. Now the gig is up ...you know they are "pickle weeds " and will probably keep them. I was going to post that I would like Bob to make me some "pickle head mottles and ringers" but I figured that would be too much destruction of duck hunting language for you in one sentence.

I did make my photo trip and an area that produced flight after flight of teal and "mottles" during the season only produced one flight of teal and several wide passes by very wary mottled ducks. They would have been tremendous pix ...had they only been in focus. I'll post them under another thread just for the heck of it.
 
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Very neat Bob, you did a fantastic job of adding "depth" through your painting. You make them look truly three dimensional.
 
Seeing this thread reminded me of a picture sent to me a couple years ago by the late Dick Benson one night during one of our late night decoy discussion. I don't remember the exact details of the picture but he won a pickleweed contest somewhere in California with this head.

merghead004.jpg

 
Thanks for posting that Chris. I miss Dick. He was a great guy and a great artist. We spent many an evening chatting online when I was on the road working out of a hotel room.
 
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