Rubber decoy

[Mark Spolarich]

A guy at work gave me this decoy but knew nothing about it. He said an older gentleman gave some to him and he thought he would share one with me. It is rubber and collapsable; you fill it by pulling out the red tube and blowing air into it. Any ideas as to manufacturer?

 

[Dani]

Mark,

A quick search came up with this:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssc=1&_nkw=deeks+rubber+duck+decoys&_sop=7

there's one very similar looking titled
Vintage Plasti-Duk Neumann Bennetts Floating Rubber Duck Decoys S10


Dani

 

[Tom Scholberg]

Mark, I don't know anything more than you do but I do have a dozen that have never been wet. Picked them up at an estate sale years ago just 'cause. They still had a label on them with the owners initials. Lets see if anyone knows anything about them.

 

[Bill Abbate]

Check out Ken Trayer's book...Factory Decoys.

 

[Ed L.]

Mark,

The keel is a bit different but my guess is http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/251780374543?item=251780374543&lgeo=1&vectorid=229466&rmvSB=true

 

[Mark Davenport]

Mark-
I have a dozen of them as well that I still use for long walk in hunts.
My buddies bust on me when it comes time to inflate them. And I'm sure anyone not in the know and watching from a distance might find it an odd sight as well.

Mark

 

[joe miller]

plasti duk s 10
they also made diver decoys

 

[Vince Pagliaroli]

I've got 4 of the Black Ducks left from a rig I bought in the 1960's. Very good decoys with more style than the Mallards. I still use them for walk in hunts. Gottem up in the attic, must dig em out to check maker. They served me well for lotta years...

 

[Mark Spolarich]

Thanks all....I had no idea because there are no markings on the decoy at all to indicate manufacturer.

 

[Tom Scholberg]

Mark, I don't think any of the leads so far are the right ones, most have keels that are wrong. One black duck on E bay looked right but no mfg., this one could be a very interesting search. Mine are all mallards, 6 drakes and 6 hens.

 

[fred slyfield]

Definetly a Plasti-duck from Newman and Bennets, Klamath falls Oregon,

They work great for coot decoys, clean them off and spray with black Krylon fusion, it sticks like glue to them.

You can tie 3-4 together and they dont make a sound when hitting each other, makes for a good coot feeding frenzy, the widgeon can't leave them alone!!

 

[Dave Diefenderfer]

Humm, coot decoys? I have a dozen bluebills that I got in many years ago in Vermont, that someone had painted cheek patches on to use for whistlers.... some are dry rotted so that they don't hold air anymore. I thought about a low expansion spray foam in them, and then thought why?, wasn't going to use them as bluebills anyway... but they are small enough to be decent coots! Next Home Depot stop will include a can of foam to try. IDK if they will over expand or not.

 

[Mark Spolarich]

Tom, i did some searching based upon the leads posted here and found many of the plastic duk decoys look like this one but the keels are wrong. I think i saw the same black duck on Ebay also.

This decoy has a leak under the chin that i plan to fix so it can be used. Even though its not pretty i plan to add it to the rig for nostalgia purposes....like has been said many times on hear, if it could talk the stories it could tell!

 

[Bill Burkett]

Gotta be N&B from Klamath Falls. An ironmongery on Bay Street in Nassau sold them every year for island walk in hunters. Used mine on Lake Killarney out by Nassau International. Hunting Assategue a few years later, a hen mallard N&B drifted into my rig from out on the Chesapeake. I took them and some Carry-Lite water keels in a duffel to California when an unexpected job assignment ruined my east coast season. Used them in Kern County. Finally wore out and leaked and they were discarded; I actually visited the factory in Klamath Falls in 1984 and picked up a few of their flawed hard body Plasti Ducks for a song but no more inflables because I was a boat hunter by then..