new decoy

[snapper1982]

so I was wanting a new strutter decoy. had planed on either a Zink or DSD. I already use a mounted one that I named Chuck. a couple weeks ago I was in walmart and they had the Turkey Thug Wise Guy decoy marked down to $30. I looked at it several times over the last 2 months so I decided to get one and see what I could do with it as I already knew it looked like junk. here is what I came up with.
new right out of box






my paint job







new out of box






my feather job(not perfect but I doubt a turkey will notice)






over all I think it was a well spent $30

[barry]

Nice job! Looks great!

[bigbird]

I'm very impressed, that thing looks good

[Snoodsniper]

Wow that looks great! I just dropped 120.00 at Dicks this morning for a LCD strutter. I think yours might look better.

[THattaway]

I was fixing to shoot till I saw it didn't have a beard.

[TauntoHawk]

I have done something similar with a decoy in 1/2 strut, looked great but was not very portable for me.

[snapper1982]

I was fixing to shoot till I saw it didn't have a beard.

that was done on purpose to make anyone who thinks about shooting it think twice.

[renegade19]

 

[Timberland Taxidermy]

Well done. Most of the time I've seen people attempt this it resulted in a dumpster fire. I would actually hunt behind yours.

[Lucky Clucker]

How did you do this? Glue each feather or use a dried skin? Great Job!

[snapper1982]

How did you do this? Glue each feather or use a dried skin? Great Job!

cut and glued each feather.

[Old Gobbler]

You did a good job on that !

[chadly]

very nice.

[vaturkey]

You did a great job ! Very realistic looking  ! Well Done ! 

[TauntoHawk]

How did you do this? Glue each feather or use a dried skin? Great Job!

cut and glued each feather.

That must have taken forever! I'm impressed, I carved a piece of foam and attached a whole dried skin.