Avery River decoys?

[ICE]

I love the way the 60/40 keels move in the river. I have multiple avery decoys that we use in the river but the main decoy that we don't are mallards. If you take pictures of the birds on the river they are swimming around with long necks. Their heads are high. All of Avery's are low, and relaxed like you see on a pond. They don't look natural on the river. So we end up running G & H decoys. I was just curious why Avery doesn't provide something like them, or will they?

[Pkraft]

What I have noticed hunting rivers, if there is much current, is the avery's work much better. They have a larger chest which helps them keep upright with the current and th G&H's have a smaller chest and the current sucks them down so the chest is underwater and it looks terrible. I do hear what you are saying that it would be nice to have some different head positions.

[Jeff Gudenkauf]

If you take pictures of the birds on the river they are swimming around with long necks. Their heads are high. All of Avery's are low, and relaxed like you see on a pond.


I'm sure guys can post hundreds of pictures with examples of each relating to rivers - ducks with high heads and ducks with low heads.
I've always felt that ducks with high heads are nervous, getting ready to take to the sky and alarming. Ducks with low heads are comfortable, content, and inviting. I can tell you which I'd want to portray with my spread...

[ICE]

I understand that arguement and I'm not a duck so I can't tell you. But in the areas we hunt its fairly swift, (Which we feel is part of the reason they are so High headed) also maybe the birds are nervous. But that is how they look. Other birds land with them looking that way. Sure we see a couple that relax and kick back but a whole flock never looks that way. They are always looking.

I understand that ducks like a safe area. And in our minds all resting birds would say its a safe area. But if birds are feeding in an area you don't set up resting/sleeping decoys, you set up feeding decoys. We do use the Avery's in areas we find birds loafing but not in areas where they are getting water or feeding.

Also every hunter out there has hot buys. If you keep getting shot where all the birds are resting.....would you keep going to a flock of resting birds????

Its just something we have found and I was curious about. I have no problem running other brands, that is why there is more then one.

I just don't see many resting birds in swift water. Something about those two don't seem to go together to me.

[Doug Steinke]

You can get that look with Avery decoys. This is how I did it. What you need to do is to take the high head from an active full body mallard and place it on a Cabelas RealImage mallard floating duck decoy. The Real Image mallards have moveable/replacable heads. The full body heads snap right into the neck area. Try it out.

[Travis Mueller]

Doug, I'd love to see some pictures of that.

[goosehunter64]

Doug, I'd love to see some pictures of that.
me too...

[Doug Steinke]

And guess what? No drywall screws.

http://webpages.charter.net/silverbellies/real.jpg

[Curt Wilson]

How many of those do you have, Doug? That looks great.

[Double B]

Those real image mallards are sweet decoys......the movable head is very nice as well

[OutForBlood87]

Now thats what Im talking about!!!

[Doug Steinke]

2 dozen. That is all of the mallard floaters we use.

[Josh Carda]

That's pretty cool doug!

[goosehunter64]

That is sweet Doug.

[ICE]

You can get that look with Avery decoys. This is how I did it. What you need to do is to take the high head from an active full body mallard and place it on a Cabelas RealImage mallard floating duck decoy. The Real Image mallards have moveable/replacable heads. The full body heads snap right into the neck area. Try it out.


THAT IS AWESOME!!!! I'm going to buy me some new decoys! :D

[Chad Ryan]

Darn that is a good idea Doug...Some FF Greenhead's will make that look different!