Lg1 Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Worked on this for a long time, pretty proud of it. What do you guys think? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno22rf Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 That's very good m8-not sure why you would decoy Woodpeckers but what the hey!! (only messing m8-very realistic ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry69koi Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 Very good m8ty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the pigeon man Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 That's a cracker !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 Very good! Did you make the Silver Birch as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchieboy Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 Looks very good mate! How about a few details of how you made it and what materials you used? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southeastpete Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 Lol I thought it would be an actual decoy, not just a pic of a real pigeon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokinggun Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 Looks great to me buddy , as others have said how did you make it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike-b Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 wow :good: top job mate and yes like the others said details!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 Excellent work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lg1 Posted July 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 Thanks, I put a lot of hours in on this and not to mention money lol- in fact your probably viewing one of the most expensive modern day pigeon decoy ever. Cost over a £1000 to make (nut's) I know but once I started I couldn't stop and with all the failed attempts the costs just racked up... I set off to make something like this as I was board of walking round game fairs viewing the same old **** & listening to the same old sales line, decoys that were the next best thing! Deadly etc etc. fact is most decoys in my view are made to decoy me & you rather than the birds lol... So again I set of looking to prove to myself you can make a decoy with great detail that looks as good from above as is does from the sides and front! (No short cuts) like fuds etc, now I'm not disagreeing they work but looking down on that particular decoy it's a totally odd shape. Why take that short cut on a decoy that looks awesome side on? Tbh 99% of decoys on our shop shelves are slack efforts that people bang into us in my opinion. There's a pretty well heard saying in our sport "you can't beat a dead bird" and no wonder with the half baked looks of the decoys we use so keeping that phrase in mind I thought why not make a decoy as good as a dead bird? Made sense to me anyway. Iv made this decoy using high detail photography, graphic designers and specialist printers. It's actually a washable sock you pull over your old decoys lol.... Kind of pimping ya old decoy! When it gets manky ya can get ya lass to put it in the washing machine haha I see this as a way of non directly getting them involved :0) iv made flying ones two but need sharpening up but it's kept my totally over active brain busy anyhow.... Righ!!!t glad iv got all that of me chest, I feel counciled and free of my obsession of this. Thanks for the compliments lads glad ya think iv made it look quite life like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medic1281 Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 That sounds like a sales pitch. Are you going into production to recoup some money? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lg1 Posted July 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 Iv just won a £10 bet with my self lol... I new some one would say that so here it is. I don't produce them for people I don't sell them And I won't be touting for sales on here. I made them because I enjoyed it, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconFN Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 Cost over a £1000 to make....I'll take a dozen. To be fair, it does look very good and you probably have the most realistic decoy I've ever seen. Whether pigeons notice your hard work is another question but well done on creating exactly what you wanted. Iv just won a £10 bet with my self lol... I new some one would say that so here it is. Just £990 to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lg1 Posted July 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 One day falcon I will either be in sporting gun for my dedication to the sport or the nut house hahaha! I'm thinking nut house pal lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 Only a grand each, I will put a couple of dozen on my xmas list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lg1 Posted July 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 Lol.... This was the accumulation cost of trial and error m8! Mistake after mistake/ waste after waste! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 Looking forward to seeing some of your other work, the "flying ones" would be interesting. What sort of material is the sock made of? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCat Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 Made of wood pigeon pehaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCat Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 Seriously good effort, sell em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 Seriously good effort, sell em. By the sounds of things, the price would be too prohibitive. Also, if they were easy and cheap to make, i'm sure a large manufacturer would have produced something very similar by now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCat Posted July 18, 2013 Report Share Posted July 18, 2013 If that was the case nothing would ever be invented these days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babs2020 Posted July 21, 2013 Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 that looks great you done any field trails yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lg1 Posted July 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 Yea babs, I'm always shooting over them! Love em. Far better than any flocked bird or static decoy! It dosnt bother me not starting with dead birds anymore. when I use these I can pull birds very close before they twig on. There not a magic wand by I love them :0) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babs2020 Posted July 23, 2013 Report Share Posted July 23, 2013 how many do you start with they look great i think i would end up shooting one of they look that good lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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