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  1. 07-14-2009, 08:26 PM #1
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    Default Carve Foam Decoys?

    Anyone carve foam decoys?

    Books, sites, where to get foam, knives?

    Thinking about it.
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    I've been seriously thinking about this as well. Here's a good tutorial. http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/forum...hp?f=15&t=5247
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    good link. thanks
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    Lots of folks over at the Refuge decoy forum carve foam. Probably a demo or two over there as well. Check them out as they'll likely be your best resource.

    Foam can be found at the big box stores. Don't need much in the way of knives from what I understand.
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    Don Mintz is the man when it comes to foam decoys, he goes by woodduck31 on most of the other sites. Here's a few ruddys he made for me:
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    damn, those are nice send me a pm so I can get some of those or some like it
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    bean, he's over on duckhuntingchat.com and goes by woodduck31. Sorry, but I don't have is email anymore or I would have posted it.
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    Those are as nice as I've seen. How much you got in them?
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    These are my ruddy dekes. I make them out of lexan and just toss them out randomly

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    bayraider, you are turning me into a UGA fan...one post at a time
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    Quote Originally Posted by cusportsman View Post
    I've been seriously thinking about this as well. Here's a good tutorial. http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/forum...hp?f=15&t=5247

    That really is a good thread and you can learn alot from those guys over there. I've made a couple but none quite as nice as some of those made over there. Last year I made a ringneck or two that I restle coated instead of the burlaping they do over there. I only did one, I just wanted to see how it would hold up over the course of a season before I made a bunch(the restle coating is much less time consuming than the burlapping).

    I cut out the basic shape with a saw, do the shaping with a wood file, add some feather details with the file, cover with whatever medium I choose, and then paint. I really enjoy the whole process. One note on painting: I use just latex house paint for my blacks and whites on divers and if I need color I just use cheap acrylics from wal mart. I've found that if I let them sit 3 or four months before using I don't even need a clearcoat. You just can't hunt over them if you make them right before the season. So i'll hunt the blocks I made after the season last year starting Wednesday!

    Good luck, it really adds to the experience hunting over blocks you made with a dog you trained yourself.
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    i'm really wanting to start doing this and turning a few calls myself too. i would love to kill a duck over a few decoys i carved, with a duck call i turned, out of my 16ga SxS
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    This is a good forum also, they have some good tutorials.

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  14. 12-02-2009, 10:02 AM #14
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    Ive carved a couple using a plainer and a dremmel. Never looked at any tutorials just started carving. They take a good bit of time but its nice having decoys u carved out in the spread. I cut a slot inn the bottom with a dremmel and put a long peice of lead down the middle to act as a weighted keel and it worked pretty good.
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