jwayne
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Reged: 04/10/2007
Posts: 12
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now that the wildfowling season is over i'd like to add to my collection of decoys by hopfully, making my own.
i've tried making sillouhets out of marine ply and i have a fair few texas rags. i find goose decoys extremely expensive 15 a pop and you nedd a shed load to attract any descent amount of geese. has any one any ideas on some material to use and their effectiveness.
theres a guy on the internet who make them out of paper mache and water-proofs them with boat farnish. i've actually tried this method and the ducks come out fine but the geese, thats a different story.
or possibbly fibre glass, but that stuff makes one hell of a mess.
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Tal_IL
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Reged: 21/03/2008
Posts: 3
Loc: Central Illinois, USA
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When I first started hunting geese in corn stubble about 25 years ago, I made field decoys from old car tires. I cut the tires in sections about the size of a goose body and cut & painted head/neck silhouettes on a stake from plywood. I just set the tire sections on the ground and stuck a head/neck stake in the ground at one end of each. From a distance they look fairly realistic, and I shot quite a few geese over them.
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(W)hen some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys,
whether they should let them hunt, I have answered, yes.....-- make them hunters, ....
There is a period in the history of the individual, as of the race, when the hunters are the "best men," .... -Henry David Thoreau
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