The art of decoy carving dates back to the early 1900s. In coastal areas where ducks flew through while migrating people would hunt these ducks. In the early years there was no big company’s to make and sell decoys. People would make their own and use them in their hunting rig or sell them to other hunters. In different areas people started to create their own styles of decoys. People would carve decoys in the winter and summer to pass the time. They would use different types of wood that carved smooth. Popular woods for decoy carving are juniper, white pine, tupelo ,Mahogany and cypress are used but they are a harder piece of wood and more difficult to carve. Many of the early decoys from the
20s dating to the 70s are popular amongst
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Collectors buy antique decoys and modern made decoys from people who have made a name for themselves in the decoy culture. A few of these names are Cigar Daisy, Jerry
Talton, Eldon Willis, Dan Robinson, Roy Willis, David O’Neal, Mitchell Fulcher, Capt. Harry Jones.
Some of these carvers have passed away and their decoys go for hundreds of dollars.
Core sound decoys Core sound decoys are a popular style of decoy in the hunting and collector world. In the 1930s
Elmer Salter and Eldon Willis started making decoys to hunt over but they would also sell them to other hunters. Eldon Willis was my great grandfather and who I was named after. Elmer Salter and
Eldon Willis made many decoys together using the same pattern for the head and body and paint style.
Usually they would work as a team, one would make the bodys and the other would make the heads.
One would paint them as the other finished up sanding a finished unpainted decoy. Decoys that were made by them sell for hundreds of dollars and are very popular among collectors. They lived in the town of Stacy, North Carolina and would pass around their cut out patterns among their friends and
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They made many decoys over the years. Pintail decoys made by Mitchel fulcher are very popular and bufflehead decoys made by Eldon Willis is considered their signature decoy species by collectors. Every town from Cedar
Island to Harker’s Island has their own style that is alittle bit different form the other towns. But overall
Core sound decoys have its own style. The decoy market took off when market gunning became big.
Market gunning became a popular trade for locals in the 30s and 40s. Locals made their living off of
Fishing and hunting, they would sell their fish and ducks and that was the main income for many families
In that time period. People would sell the ducks they shot. Restrictions were more slack than today
And there was plenty of waterfowl and fish. The game wardens were constantly trying to catch the outlaw gunner who would shoot way over their limits. If they were caught they would be fined a lot of money and their guns would be confiscated. The market gunners became very crafty in how they hid their ducks and methods of getting them. They would build add on to their guns magazine so they
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...ce was calling almost all of the flocks in our area into our decoys. For as many duck hunts as I have been on, I have never seen someone so productive with duck calls.
You need steel shot. Before 1992 you were able to you brass shot, but they changed that. They switched to steel shot because it’s a non-toxic metal, opposed to brass. It made the water ways just a little less toxic and when you shoot a duck and say you just hit it with one or two brass pellets. Well that’s not a fatal blow the duck could survive, but with the brass shot being toxic and harmful it would die from blood poisoning down the road which is bad for Waterfowl. If you hit the duck with steel shot it has a chance to live if it go away because it wouldn’t die from blood poisoning. When choosing your type of bullet there are a lot of considerations to take into hand. First of all you get steel shot but the best to get is either four shot or lower. Then choosing the velocity of the bullet you want to get something that is going to move out there at a reasonable speed. The lowest you can go is 1330 feet per second, which really isn’t recommended. Then the highest velocity that you can go is 1760 feet per second. What a lot of people usually prefer is 1550 feet per second, which is the happy medium. If you make the transition to a higher or lower velocity then it makes it hard to hit your target, because when the duck or goose is flying you have to lead it and it’s hard to get a range on how much to lead them when you switching around on what velocity that you are shooting. Then you have to take into consideration the size of your bullet. When choosing a bullet size you can have usually anywhere from two and three quarters of an inch up to three and a half inches. The typical sizes are two and three quarters and three inches, because they won’t get jammed when cocking out your
The people of the Eastern Woodlands made many tools to help them in their everyday lives. They made spears, weirs, nets, bows and arrows, lances, knives, taps, snares and deadfall for hunting. Most of those tools were made of wood or bark and other forest material. Arrowheads were made from chert, or flint, from sedimentary rocks. They were shaped like isosceles triangles, the smallest arrows were used for hunting birds, the bigger ones were to spear bears or deer. Flint knives were often oval, or teardrop shaped. For fishing they made spears, weirs, and nets. They also made canoes from hollowed-out trees to help with fishing in the lakes and streams. Some other tools they made were axes made of stone to strip bark, clear fields and removing fat from hides. Axes
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parts and put them together and used a special technique to bring the corpse to
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cluster revolver. The only problem was that the revolver blew up when they shot it. The reason
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