Not one head fit on my new FFD Goose decoys

[GreenRiver]

Talk about disappointed. I really got the goose hunting bug again after taking 10 years off. Decided on getting what I thought was the best goose decoy made - a six pack of FFD Elite Series. I shopped and waited for a sale, and then Joe's had their dekes marked down 25%. Big weekend coming up. Got to drive 3 hours to hunt. I better see how they put together. Not one head would fit in the base...........TOO BIG.

Thank You Joes Sports for taking them back.

[jamesmc]

Everyone griped about the heads being too loose and falling off so the tightened the tolerences so they would be tight. Now everyone is griping about them being too tight. All you have to do is take a dremel tool and take the excess flocking off the head connection on the base and the actual head and they go right on (and they will still be alittle tight). I always heard you can't please everyone so I guess avery is damned if they do and damned if they don't. Nice first post.

[Nick Westerholm]

i've put together tons of avery decoys over the years and like james said they are made tight for a reason! i hate to be rude but sometimes you just gotta walk away and try again, i do a lot of du banquets where we give a 100 dozen decoys away at a time and sometimes it takes two full grown college guys to put it together. i'm sorry you had bad a bad time with them! good luck with whatever else you decide to get!

[GreenRiver]

The Joe's Sports manager took a look at them and he also said this is wrong. The excess flocking was not the problem. If I used a dremel to grind down the plastic I would have to take an 1/8 inch of plastic off. How thick is that plastic? Oh,......... It would have worked if I took a 1/16th off each piece.

At 30 bucks a decoy this totaly unacceptable. Maybe I just recieved the bad end of the lean six sigma.

[Teal 101]

It took my dad and I to put the heads on ours. They're tough.

[Dirt_Bag]

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[CamoHunter870]

I put together 2 harvester packs and one pack of rester in FFD's and yes, they took alittle time to put together and required alittle trimming.

However, I would rather have them tight to put on so I know they won't fall off like some other manufacturerers decoys.