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Why Full Curls?
Full Curl Duck Decoys were designed because of my experience with
other decoys. I guide duck hunters on a small 3 acre ponds,
which are surrounded by food plots. The same ducks come back
day after day. Because the ducks see the same decoys everyday,
they become wise to us hunters and the tools we use to fool
them. This gives me the chance to evaluate our techniques and
our decoys.
What I have found after seeing thousands of ducks harvested
from the ponds, is that the design and the quality of the decoys
is critical to bringing in mid to late season, gun shy ducks.
After using the old standard production decoys, I went to the
custom decoys. These decoys run from the $280 a dozen to $ 480
a dozen. Even at these prices, even though the results were
much better than the production decoys, I had to take them into
the shop and modify the look of the custom decoys. I adjusted
the paint scheme and flocked the heads and tails. Even though
this helped, I was still not happy with all the results we were
getting.
Therefore I decided to make a decoy that incorporated all the
best features of the custom decoys. Then I added all the custom
features that were needed to finish ducks on bad days as well
as good days.
Most decoy manufactures, use an exaggerated paint job that appeals
more to the hunter than to the ducks. Our full curls are made
to appeal to the Ducks!
We also made them to be super versatile. They can be used on
the roughest waters by filling the keel with sand, or they can
be used on the smallest of calm ponds where motion is paramount
by just tying onto the decoy with out the keel. With no keel,
the decoy will move with the slightest breeze. Or when the ponds
freeze up you can still tie unto the decoy when the keel is
not needed.
We made the Full Curls oversized to be visible from a distance.
This is nothing new, but we also made then 1/2" taller
than other decoys. This increases the visibility of the Full
Curls for those ducks that would normally pass us buy.
Therefore, the full curls were made to fill a gap in the decoy
market that is tantamount to using a stuffed duck for a decoy!
Know you will enjoy hunting with them as much as I do!
Share the sport and support those organizations that keep them
flying!
| Paul Sullivan, Head Guide for |
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