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Capt. Jack Passie

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In an effort not to offend local anti's. We have initiated a pollicy of living GREEN and from now on we will recycle all of our birds. The top photo is a 216 Stuffers spred in the snow, the 2nd afew happy volunteers for recycling and 3rd one of our volunteers for next season
 
Capt Jack, I admire your tenacity for hunting over those stuffers. Taking care of a spread like that is a full time job! Rich
 
What is the maintenance like for stuffers and what's the 'life' expectency?

They look absolutely awesome!

Best - Paul
 
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ll last for ever if you take care of them and handle them right. The necks go first, Because when guys pick them up they don't do it by the base. The neck makes a convenint handle. Its the rain that kills them. I leave them out in the pit from opening day till close. I cover the stool with a tarp inside the pit that helps a lot. I try not to hunt a pit that I have stuffers in the rain and go to a box that I have plastic, but sometimes you have to go to field that the birds are living in and that takes its toll. I would say the average bird last about 5-6 years. Even when the neck goes you can still use them. I just make sure the bird is facing into the wind. This season I was only able to make 62 down from the 131 of the year before. For the off season they are on shelves and hanging from the rafters in my basement

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Capt Jack, a guy I hunted on the eastern shore told me he scotchguarded his stuffers to protect them from the elements. Think he was serious? Rich
 
Very nice, How much time goes into making Stuffer? what is the process?
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Once you've done a few I takes about an hour. First you skin out the bird, Breast firstget down to the neck cut that off at the body and start on the back clip the wing bones and leg bones when you get to them, pull out the neck clean out all the brainsuse neck foam with a pice of 9 ga wire for the neck fill the head with clay get out the wing bones and cure the skin with Borax Make your body to fit out of dock styrofoam that takes about 4 min. strech the skin over the body foam and sew it up with 2" roofing nails mount it on a bent piece of 3/8 rebar set the wing with 18 penny box nails and your let harden up till next season and your good to go. Basically thats it.
 
Capt Jack, a guy I hunted on the eastern shore told me he scotchguarded his stuffers to protect them from the elements. Think he was serious? Rich
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I've heard of guys doing that. I've never tried it, but I have thought about doing it.
 
If you put them in a place where the rats can get at them. The rats will raise havoc with your newly mounted birds but will leave the old ones alone. This past season we had a Perigine Falcon cause havoc in the field one day. It was a hunting Raptor with a tracking device and tassels. We couldnt get rid of him everytime I'd try to flag some geese he was on the stuffers in a flash and would tear into them
 
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ll last for ever if you take care of them and handle them right. The necks go first, Because when guys pick them up they don't do it by the base. The neck makes a convenint handle. Its the rain that kills them. I leave them out in the pit from opening day till close. I cover the stool with a tarp inside the pit that helps a lot. I try not to hunt a pit that I have stuffers in the rain and go to a box that I have plastic, but sometimes you have to go to field that the birds are living in and that takes its toll. I would say the average bird last about 5-6 years. Even when the neck goes you can still use them. I just make sure the bird is facing into the wind. This season I was only able to make 62 down from the 131 of the year before. For the off season they are on shelves and hanging from the rafters in my basement

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Are those McCormick cork geese? Out of my dads whole extensive mccormick collection we only have one goose.
 
Tim Sorry I couldn't get back to you any ssoner. I was at the Rockland Show for 5 days selling some charters on the Windy. Yes those are McCormick Geese. That is half of the only compleate rig made in Al's basement. The other half I believe is in East Moriches.
 
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