Beautiful Deke. Ive always loved woods and corkers. With my style of waterfowling, using them is just too impractical. Hunting potholes and salt marshes, I usually carry my dekes on my back and the hunting can be pretty rough on them. I have a small collection of antique dekes, but they dont leave the house.
Most waterfowlers (especially new waterfowlers) would probably laugh at my current pile of dekes....theyre butt ugly, but I dont struggle to harvest birds either. Odd, isnt it? I tend to concentrate more on bird behavior, habits, scouting locations, getting into the right spots, weather, setting the spread, calling techniques, etc. than I do on how well painted, flocked, or what brand of decoy Im using.
Some old timers I knew back when I hunted the Platte in Nebraska hunted birds over decoys they made using burlap sacks....they were 1 color and didnt look anything like a bird. Those guys almost always brought in birds. Amazing.
