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Now I really want to put an acorn in the mouth of one of my wood ducks

My first actual decoy was a bufflehead, didn't have any diving decoys but had a crab pot buoy, a chunk of balsa, wires from flags, and a...

Couple drakes I made recently. Hollow pine and acrylics.

A drake bufflehead was the first diver I ever shot. Our view of waterfowl hunting when I was a kid was limited to puddlers and...

@Don Mintz - You make some great looking birds. I’m fairly new to carving and just finished my first duck which was a buffy. I’d like to...

Don et al~ First, let me say I love those Buffleheads! I meant to comment as soon as I saw them. We never shot many - we call them...

No idea how it would work as a duck boat, but as a kid I sailed those O'Day Daysailers at 16' and it was a sweet sailing boat. Another...

four more poses finished today. This is more my style for buffleheads, way more hens than drakes.

I'm a copycat. The moment I saw Mr. Patterson's glass dodger, I knew I had to have one. I trailer anywhere from an hour to four hours to...

I believe I read that the earlier, 25' hull UMaine made a few years ago was printed in about 72 hours. They may have a bigger printer...

sorta like the guys who put clams, crabs or starfish in the mouth of their scoter & eider decoys!

Now I really want to put an acorn in the mouth of one of my wood ducks

Just a quick update. Here are the instructions from the supplier. The material is drapable. You can overlap the sphere core and roll...

Now I really want to put an acorn in the mouth of one of my wood ducks

I got the size of the crochet eyes from a post of Don's (link here), and they seemed to fit the larger bodies. However, I did not...