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Does anyone use HH inflatable decoys? Are they any good and who sells them? Anyone with dealer info please PM me, so we don't upset the moderators.

 

Cheers :D

 

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I bought a couple a few years ago having read Peter Theobold rave about them.

 

The detail is great, and they do colapse to virtually nothing, but they are rather small, and the balloon idea is a waste of time. I tried to improve mine by fitting a valve obtainable from balloon shops. I now only use them when I go roost shooting, I place them on a stick, either set on the field or on a twig. I think that I am probably fooling myself rather than the pigeon.

 

I have a couple of dozen flock coated shell decoys and find that they work fine. I have considered filling the doble H with that expanding foam that builders use, but I dont know haw the stuf would react with the latex rubber.

 

Sorry double H, but I feel that your product has been overtaken. It would be great if you could just blow them up like an air bed. My valve idea on the balloon was only a reasonable sucsess; the balloon either fell out, or fell in or got lost; then there was the special wire stand thigy. Oh, forget it! They look good on a shelf in my den!

 

webber

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Webber,

 

You're dead right that the design is now outdated, and lets face it, who on earth is going to sit in the hide blowing up 20 or so balloons every time they go shooting??

 

I simply stuff mine with with Asda or Tesco plastic carrier bags, and they still weigh less and look a lot more realistic than the old Flexicoys that I used to use.

 

However, are static decoys redundant, now that we all use motorised flappers or spinners that will pull birds that would have flown straight past a pattern of 50 static decoys...:huh:

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