Zach, Your in progress decoys look great! It will tickle Debby too to see that one of Steve's birds is out there floating in WA.
An interesting aside about Steve's decoys...Debby met a guy at a big yard sale where she was selling a bunch of Steve's stuff (still no decoys going up for sale) and a dude named Rich came by. He ended up coming by her house to buy all the field decoys because he has a property in AR where he also hunts so he could actually use them (highly doubt most FL people could). Well, he got to looking around at all the carved birds and picked one up and turned it over and he was like OH YOU HAVE A SUTTON BIRD TOO!!!! How cool! I found one floating away some years ago and never could figure out who makes Sutton birds.
Debby was a bit confused and taken aback a bit....she was like uuuhhhh yeah. Steve carved that one and all the others that say Sutton. It clicked in the guys brain and he went even further in awe. Obviously some of the birds aren't Steve's and Rich had a hard time believing that we would hunt Steve's birds much less Jason Russel birds or Bob Furia or Bill Kell or Grayson Chesser or Alan Eastman or....or....or.....Rich said that Steve's bird sits on display because it is so nice but that he might take it down to get it wet again. Debby said that he ought to. Rich was just blown away by what kinds of decoys could be had other than plastic.
She called me up excited that that bird might get floated again, so I know it'll tickle her that this bird was floated again....
Dani
An interesting aside about Steve's decoys...Debby met a guy at a big yard sale where she was selling a bunch of Steve's stuff (still no decoys going up for sale) and a dude named Rich came by. He ended up coming by her house to buy all the field decoys because he has a property in AR where he also hunts so he could actually use them (highly doubt most FL people could). Well, he got to looking around at all the carved birds and picked one up and turned it over and he was like OH YOU HAVE A SUTTON BIRD TOO!!!! How cool! I found one floating away some years ago and never could figure out who makes Sutton birds.
Debby was a bit confused and taken aback a bit....she was like uuuhhhh yeah. Steve carved that one and all the others that say Sutton. It clicked in the guys brain and he went even further in awe. Obviously some of the birds aren't Steve's and Rich had a hard time believing that we would hunt Steve's birds much less Jason Russel birds or Bob Furia or Bill Kell or Grayson Chesser or Alan Eastman or....or....or.....Rich said that Steve's bird sits on display because it is so nice but that he might take it down to get it wet again. Debby said that he ought to. Rich was just blown away by what kinds of decoys could be had other than plastic.
She called me up excited that that bird might get floated again, so I know it'll tickle her that this bird was floated again....
Dani
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