Featured duck decoy makers Pat Gregory and Rick Pierce will share tips and techniques
BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA — If you want to make a duck decoy, find a block of wood and cut away everything that doesn’t look like a duck. Ok, so it’s not quite that simple.
But making a decoy doesn’t have to be incredibly difficult, either. The easy solution to get started is to attend the 2023 Delta Waterfowl Duck Hunters Expo set for July 28 to 30 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Delta Waterfowl has arranged a special booth at the Expo staffed by expert decoy carvers Pat Gregory and Rick Pierce, who will conduct interactive demonstrations, share tips and techniques, and answer questions all weekend long.
“I’ll have some white cedar bodies and white pine heads there with me, and I’ll be carving some Delta Marsh canvasbacks and a few other species,” Gregory said. “I’ll also be painting decoys, too, so people can see the technique that goes into actual gunning decoys. We’ll have chairs so people can get in close and watch and ask questions as we go—both about the techniques and about the history. What I do isn’t really that difficult or technical, so I hope at least a couple of folks will leave thinking ‘I could do this myself’ and will go give it a try.”
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