whats in your rig ?

Bass wood and cork, acrylics and oil,

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And a couple hundred plastics for when the buddies are a long!
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thanks for the feedback and pics i will post some pics of mine as soon as i can get my teenage daughter to show me how lol
 
Both handcarved cedar hollow and solid woodies from Mr Bob Hayden and Richard Hohler and a slew of LL Bean corks from the 70's and 80's.

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Best - Paul
 
Between all our guides, we have about (16) sixteen dozen dekes.

Our newest guide is still floating plastics, but is quickly seeing the advantage of corkers & woods.

Whatever plastics the remainder of us had were donated to the kids @ the past youth hunts.

The rest of us float cork, wood, urethane (Blackwaters) & a few palm fronds in are rigs.

Sorry for the business plugs, I made the vid's to thank the carvers & for YouTube.


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I make a new rig for myself every year. I start by carving an original then I make molds of the originals so I can cast as many decoys as I want. This was this seasons rig. A few Bills, Cans, and Redheads.

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Nice rigs guys. Mine vary from season to season, but I always have cedar teal and black ducks. Sometimes a few pintails. I gun a Sean Sutton buffy that has been used for the past 10 years and he probably gunned it for 10 years before that.

Not a recent pic but one from a few seasons back............

 
I hunt about 40 hand carved cedar birds. Half and half divers and puddlers. Most are my own, but a few are from friends.

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Hey Chuck, Could you at least dust and brush the cobb webs off that thing????? lol
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Rodney, he gets dusted off every fall, with some nice muddy water...no exceptioins!
 
both plastic and carved. I use a dozen Full Curl mallard drakes and supplement with carved birds from there.
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mixed rig with several trade birds in with mine
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old early teal rig
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Great thread! I'm enjoying this one!(I enjoy them all) There are some killer rigs out there! Lots of inspiration for me!

Unfortunately, I still hunt my plastics, mostly mallards and geese, with a few repainted as wigeon, pintail, spoonie, and buffies. The foamers I've carved so far are all divers and not many. :( My time will come. My goal is to have an all foamer rig and weed out the plastic completely!

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This post made me curious and I counted. All are hand carved and almost all are wooden birds made of white cedar. The tally was:
16 Mallards 13 Blacks
11 Teal 4 Pintail
5 Widgeon 2 Gadwall
6 Woodies 12 Goldeneyes
22 Scoter 21 Eider
14 Ringnecks 2 Ruddies
3 RB Mergansers 4 Common Mergansers
3 Hoodies 2 Canadas
7 Canvasback
1 Crow 1 Great Blue Heron
7 Bufflehead nearly finished.

I couldn't get them all in the picture.

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