Tuckerton This Weekend

Just talked to Rich Young & Tom Ayers with Duck Boss Boats - is cloudy but rain has moved out to sea. Good vendor turnout.

Rachel Young
Nativeland Chesapeakes
 
Banner day today, crowd was strong and was great to hang out with all the duckboat guys for awhile! Jode
 
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Caly took second in the Novice retriever today and won a basketfull of goodies! Lots of toys and healthy treats, she's already enjoying the squeaker toys LOL.

I find out about my gunning birds tomorrow, but I didnt see ribbons on them when I left at 3 today. Oh well, carve some more for next year.

Btw Jode, didn't get a chance to talk to you today, I'll stop by tomorrow.
 
Had a great day. Turnout seeme really good. Got to meet Jode, Mike Braden, and Brian Joyce. Found some good deals, and got some new ideas for a couple projects. Had to leave around 12:30 for my grand father's 90th birthday party. It's nowhere like Tuckerton, but hope to see a few people at the Sportmen's Jamboree in Millville next weekend.
 
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Finally got to put some faces to the names from here...Beautiful work the local carves from our area do...So many pieces I'd love to put in my rig...Hopefully we can get together and share some hunts...If anyone would like to trade hunts or hunt together I'm game...Very nice turnout....
Bruce
 
Good job with the dog today Davey,, sorry bout your jacked decoy,,Hopefully Kharma will come back around for that dude!
 
Twas great meeting with all of you that managed to get together, sad I missed some of you other guys... hope to make it back next year! It's a long way away yet. Best of luck to all participating/vending!

Sincerely

Anthony
 
Good job with the dog today Davey,, sorry bout your jacked decoy,,Hopefully Kharma will come back around for that dude!
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Thanks buddy. After I spent that $80 on decoy wood to carve a dozen puddle ducks I felt a bit better LOL! Still pissed I lost the Old Squaw and its gonna haunt me until I carve another rig of them. Already got the pattern laid out! Spent $200 on cedar today and may pick up some more tomorrow. Next year I'm getting a table, hope to have a good bunch of birds to sell...at my price this time LOL! I figure I've got about 25 cedar birds waiting to be born from the wood I got today.
 
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Oh yeah, gotta thank Jim D. for getting me another $40 from the pricks brother. My fuse got a bit longer when I turned 30, but that guy was a fraction away from me doing something that wouldnt have ended well. What can I say, I'm Irish-Italian LOL
 
Enlighten us with the full story Davey.
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I couldn't enter both Drake Old Squaw in the carving competition, only one. So the other one I put on display at the RFA table. I also had cork Pintails For Sale. The people at the table were told the Old Squaw was NOT for sale, just a display bird, you know, attract visitors to the RFA table. The cork Pintail sale was going to be donated to the RFA. Well the guy working the table went to the bathroom and forgot to tell the girl that the Old Squaw wasn't for sale. So of course, the biggest jerkoff in the world wants to buy it and she sells it to him for $40.

I track the guy down, and for 20 minutes I basically beg for my decoy back, I even offered to pay him $50 to buy it back. I explained that it was a mistake, that the Old Squaw was not for sale. This guy was the biggest A-hole I've ever met in my life. He refused to return the decoy, saying that a deal is a deal, even though I never sold it to him. Finally I lost my cool and I let this guy hear it. I called him every word in the book and just about knocked him the hell out. If it wasn't for Jim coming over, I probably would have turned that tent into a WWF ring.

I understand that the guy bought the decoy for $40, but how can somebody not have the integrity to return it when the sale was in error?? I am the carver, I told him that. I said my name is painted on the bottom and I did NOT authorize that sale. If I were to sell that decoy, it would have a $125 price tag on it, but in this situation, I don't care about the money. This decoy was part of a RIG (of 3) that I carved to gun over with my Dad this season. It was my FIRST Old Squaw decoy and it came from a piece of cedar that my Dad had bought last year for me to carve.

Now listen, I'm 30 years old and I've been gunning with my Dad since I was 10. Maybe I'm strange, but some of the decoys I carve mean something to me. I always like to keep the first decoy of every species I carve. And my Dad had bought cedar last year to make some gunning birds for "our" rig, which is where those Old Squaws came from. The rig has meaning to me and selling any of them never crossed my mind. Sure, I sell decoys, and if somebody wanted an Old Squaw decoy from me, I would carve one for them, but I wouldn't sell these.

Lesson learned on my part. I never should have left the decoy in somebody elses care unless they are someone who knows me. I don't blame the folks at the RFA table, I shouldn't have put them in that position. This was my fault 100%. I also learned another lesson - I used to assume that every stranger was a nice person until proven otherwise. I find it hard to think that way after this. I guess I'm shocked at the lack of integrity of this guy. If I had been in his position, I would have returned the decoy no questions asked, and I think most of us would do the same.

So long buddy LOL!

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Sorry to hear that Davey, Duckhunters for the most part seem like decent guys. But asin every walk of life there are some assholes and it sounds like you found a real good one yesterday with no integrity. That is a very nice bird. Dave
 
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