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I'm looking for a good place to find some cheap duck and/or goose silhouette decoys. Any help would be appreciated.
Goose and duck silhouettes
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save your money and buy full bodies. The sils tear up to easy and are not that effective.....
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You can make them cheap if you have the time.
go to a sign shop and buy sheets of black sign plastic, the stuff that has holes in it that you poke the metal stake into to push into the ground.
Make a template that you will use to cut out the silouettes. I used a G&H shell and just traced around it. Cut that template out of the sign board or use cardboard if you want. You can also use a windduk as a template, but the G&H's are bigger.
Take your template and trace around it on the sign sheet. Make sure you have the holes pointing vertical so the stakes will work. Cut them out using a jig saw with a fine blade.
Paint the whole thing flat black to take out the shine. This will also be the black on the tail. Make a template for the grey part of the duck and spray that. Then make one for the other colors. Use flat white in a can to paint on the neck stripe and the tail stripe.
I went to a local paint shop and had them custom make the colors right off a decoy with flat paint. Was cheap and goes a long way. Takes a little longer with brushed paint, but it looks creat.
You can make about 40 dekes out of one sheet of 4 by 8 plastic.
Go to a store that sells steel rod (look in the yellow pages) and get the kind that is just smaller than the holes in your plaxtic. Stick them through the deke and bend it on the top. Below the bottom of the deke electical tape around the stake to keep the deke from dropping to the ground. This also allows the dekes to move freely on the stake.
I have about 100 of these that I mix in with my 200 G&H shells and about 400 Falmbeaus with the keels cut off. The siloouettes move with the slightest wind. If they get too crazy in high winds, just push them further into the ground.
see
www.duckclubofoklahoma.com
for more info
Tim
go to a sign shop and buy sheets of black sign plastic, the stuff that has holes in it that you poke the metal stake into to push into the ground.
Make a template that you will use to cut out the silouettes. I used a G&H shell and just traced around it. Cut that template out of the sign board or use cardboard if you want. You can also use a windduk as a template, but the G&H's are bigger.
Take your template and trace around it on the sign sheet. Make sure you have the holes pointing vertical so the stakes will work. Cut them out using a jig saw with a fine blade.
Paint the whole thing flat black to take out the shine. This will also be the black on the tail. Make a template for the grey part of the duck and spray that. Then make one for the other colors. Use flat white in a can to paint on the neck stripe and the tail stripe.
I went to a local paint shop and had them custom make the colors right off a decoy with flat paint. Was cheap and goes a long way. Takes a little longer with brushed paint, but it looks creat.
You can make about 40 dekes out of one sheet of 4 by 8 plastic.
Go to a store that sells steel rod (look in the yellow pages) and get the kind that is just smaller than the holes in your plaxtic. Stick them through the deke and bend it on the top. Below the bottom of the deke electical tape around the stake to keep the deke from dropping to the ground. This also allows the dekes to move freely on the stake.
I have about 100 of these that I mix in with my 200 G&H shells and about 400 Falmbeaus with the keels cut off. The siloouettes move with the slightest wind. If they get too crazy in high winds, just push them further into the ground.
see
www.duckclubofoklahoma.com
for more info
Tim
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Well, shee-at! No wonder I shot about 12 ducks all last season here on the coast. None of the rest of 'em made it past Oklahoma!!!
I hope there were a lot more unseen hunters in your website's photos,, cuz according to my math.... :wink:
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I hope there were a lot more unseen hunters in your website's photos,, cuz according to my math.... :wink:
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Make your own. Go to any wharehouse. They throw away full sheets of Luan. Buy flat paint that best matches the feathers. I took back & breast to the store to match. Ours are 4 colored black, white, brown, beige. But can kill'em with Black and white too. We have around 14 different patterns. We use'em anytime the fields are wet & we can't drive out in them. Put'em out with the fullbodies also too had movement to the spread. We used alumimum flat stock for the stakes. tip; Leave about 1/2" to 1" above the back so you can tap into frozen ground.
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http://stormdecoys.com/
These are inexpensive but I agree will all above that you can make your own for next to nothing.
Having said that, if you aren't were they were feeding the day before I would consider full bodies.
Hello Ray, fancy meeting you here. WJA
These are inexpensive but I agree will all above that you can make your own for next to nothing.
Having said that, if you aren't were they were feeding the day before I would consider full bodies.
Hello Ray, fancy meeting you here. WJA
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Hey Bill!!! I'm all over the net! hahahahaha Still miss NJDucks though.
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I'm glad to see there's some other "do-it-yourselfers" kicking around. For painting Canadas, try Rustoleum flat black out of the can. You get a better yield than with aerosols. Keep your eyes open for people discarding 1/4" plywood or any other suitable material. (cheap!) Stakes can be attached with pop-rivets. Also incorporate sills from a front or back perspective or a 3/4 angle along with some from a top view. A little artistic flair and you've got a good looking spread.
I'm glad to see there's some other "do-it-yourselfers" kicking around. For painting Canadas, try Rustoleum flat black out of the can. You get a better yield than with aerosols. Keep your eyes open for people discarding 1/4" plywood or any other suitable material. (cheap!) Stakes can be attached with pop-rivets. Also incorporate sills from a front or back perspective or a 3/4 angle along with some from a top view. A little artistic flair and you've got a good looking spread.
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