wow, I've heard of stuffers for feild hunting, but never for use in the water. How are they made and how do they hold up in the water?

 

wow, I've heard of stuffers for feild hunting, but never for use in the water. How are they made and how do they hold up in the water?

The ducks are real, stretched and stuffed then placed inside the bottom of some cheap decoy we cut the top's off. They hold on great, just dry them in a shop after the hunt. The thing I can't get over is how much better they work.

 

ok, I was woundering what the shell on the bottom was. Do you glue them into the decoy?

 

ok, I was woundering what the shell on the bottom was. Do you glue them into the decoy?

We glued a magnet to the inside of the shell and a magnet on the duck, even when the dog runs through the spread it isn't affected.

 

do they hold up to rain, snow, frost? how long do they last I would think even drying them after every hunt they would start to mold or am I wrong on that assumption?

thanks for the tips

 

do they hold up to rain, snow, frost? how long do they last I would think even drying them after every hunt they would start to mold or am I wrong on that assumption?

thanks for the tips

They hold up just fine in the rain, we don't have snow to try them in. We have been hunting with the same ones for over two seasons with no problems.

 

thanks

 

Somehow, I think that when you are trying to fool a bird with a brain the size of half a walnut, that has basically monocular vision (no depeth perception) and is traveling by at 30 to 40 mph, you don't need that kind of realism! For some reason, I find that my best decoys are the cheapest SportPlast water keel junk I have iin my decoy bag. If you set the spread up correctly and have enough movement, the birds will come in. They're really not that bright! Dispite what the decoy manufacturers will have you believe.

One last thing. When I was a young college student who couldn't afford the paint for my decoys, we used old wooden hand carved decoys that we flamed to look like black ducks, We used whatever stain we could make to fill in any colors, and basically did everything ourselves. If you looked at the blocks, you'd have sworn that the ducks we killed needed a white cane or a guide dog to bring them into the spread. But we killed a lot of ducks with them.

Frank

 

I don't think you NEED that kind of realism to kill ducks, but I think it's a cool idea, and I think you'll probably kill just as many if not more ducks over those than you would plastics or carved decoys...especially if you've got some motion in the spread. Ducks might have a small brain, but they're also programmed for survival, and as the season progresses they get used to seeing decoys of all shapes and sizes. This would be something they weren't used to seeing.

Also, ever notice how anytime a single comes in and lands out from the decoys, almost every other duck that comes in after it lands with the real duck? Throw some motion under one of those stuffer decoys and I think you've got it made...