Starling Decoy Rig

longislandhunter - 9/10/2007  6:53 PM

... they are actually fake birds.  Quite by accident last week I happened to find a local store that had these in stock so I bought every one he had.  Best part was they were really cheap too  :)

Jeff

Cool idea, Jeff!! I'll bet it'll work great. My question is what kind of a local store carries those kind of lifelike (but fake) birds?

Bryan

[longislandhunter]

Hey Bryan,

Believe it or not I found them in a craft store called "Michaels".  I think they are actually a chain store.  They have just about anything and everything related to whatever kind of "crafts" you are into.  It's a pretty cool store, even though the customers are 99.9 % women, and I go there every once in a while to look around and see what I might need.  They also have a great supply of fake flowers, leaves, etc, stuff like that which work great as camo stencils.   The check out girl looked at me kinda funny when I put all those birds on the counter, but I didn't let it bother me.  :)

Jeff

[NMCA_Ron]

longislandhunter - 9/10/2007  5:53 PM


Gene,,,, to answer yourquestion,,,, they are actually fake birds.  Quite by accident last week I happened to find a local store that had these in stock so I bought every one he had.  Best part was they were really cheap too  :)

Jeff

Jeff,

This store you were at.... Did they happen to have any owls for sale too? I have a problem with crows in the area and I know that if there was a decoy owl which looked as realistic as those starlings I would have crows falling out of the trees left and right!

Ron

[longislandhunter]

Hey Ron,

No, didn't see any owls.  I think cheaperthandirt.com   and  also sportsmansguide.com has plastic owls decoys for a good price.  The better owl decoys have heads that move in the wind to give it a sense of realism.  We have a few of them set up in the marina I have my boat it,,,,, it keeps the seagulls away from the boats.  

Jeff

[USNCop]

Oooh, I love that Jeff!  Your a sick man after my own sick heart.
I can't believe I didn't build one of those yet.  Do you have sound recordings to go with that?
Add a few vittles, yeah , I can see it now........

Great! There's a Michaels about 20 miles away. I believe I'm gonna have to pay 'em a visit next time I'm in the area  ;~)

Thanks, Jeff.

Bryan

[CharlieDaTuna]

now he wants one too. Now what...lol...

[longislandhunter]

I think you should build Fritz one right away, but be sure to make it interactive   :)

He'll love it............

Jeff

[Silo]

Jeff,
Only saw those now. They are amazing! I thought they were real till I got to the close up shots.
Realy great jon man.

Roald.

[nyairman]

Now that is a great hunter thinking. There is a Michael's shop near me that I need to visit this fall. Jeff, add some Starling sounds and you will be in THE STARLING ZONE this fall. Good luck and keep us posted on your progress.

Greg

Ron, I stopped by the nearest Michaels on my way back home from a long weekend out of town (I was able to spend a great afternoon with my brother walking some tin cans across his back-yard with the CFX .22 and Beeman P-17; he doesn't shoot airguns much but he said he couldn't believe how nice and smooth the GRTIII trigger felt. If that ain't a testimonial, I don't know what is- I've 'bout got him hooked!) to see if I could find the stuffed starlings. They had them on sale for half price- I think they were $4.99 regularly. I didn't see any owls, but they had some amazingly good looking crows, also half price at $5, so I got a couple of those and a few starlings.

I hope to report positive results soon.

Bryan