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As a graduation gift to Mac for finishing his Environmental Science degree at UBC I made him a rig of Goldeneye decoys. Since he and I have been hunting GE's since he was about 2, it seemed time he had some blocks of his own. I used some red cedar from the Island and some pine logs from Gerry's...

Here's a few gunners recently finished up. Red cedar, self righting, ready to hunt. $200 each for the Redheads. $200 for this Harli. And I have 2 Ruddy Turnstones to offer, $90 each. Postage from the far reaches of Canada to the US seems to be in the $30 - 50 range on full...

He used drill bits to make the nice small dots on this guy. And he was kind enough to add his ideas to my painting recipe book. And I finished up some shelf sitters.

I believe this pattern was from that book by Anthony Hillman. It was the best/only reference book I had when I started getting interested in making decoys back in the olden times of the 1980's. I thought it would be a fun project to give the Harli pattern a go. From one of the times I...

For a guy like me who paints stylized versions of real ducks, this decoy was a great opportunity to try some features I've been thinking about. Hollowed red cedar with an oak bill.

See if this works, its been a while since I tried to post a photo. He was in quarantine with me the past two weeks which gave us time to work on a few projects together. He started these BWT several years ago but never had time to finish them until now.

I got me a fancy new laptop and I haven't figured out how to post pictures yet. But I wanted to check in and let you guys know I'm still alive. I've been spending a few evenings looking for a spring black bear and Monday night I saw a boar walk into the bush on the side of the road and...

Thanks to Jake Passmore for the great tips towards making this trip so memorable. Mac and I met up in Austin last week and slow poked our way out to Terlingua for a few days of desolate desert exploration. I won't bore you guys with the 10,000 pictures I took of cacti, but here's a couple of a...

Remember a while back I was yakkin' about the 100 yr old pair of jeans my friend Alf found while looking for gold? Well my little article was published online yesterday with the help of some guys in Berlin who are into that sort of thing. The interweb constantly amazes me...

Remember the old days when you had to find how to stuff on forums instead of well edited videos on youtube? Those youtube videos sure make fixing/building stuff easier nowadays eh? Anyways, here's an old school how I do sheep skulls for your info-tainment. Step one, get the horns off and make...

I wanted to start a thread where guys could post a story about their dog, or any dog they've known. It can be whatever you want to say - funny, sad, what ever. My life has been immeasurably enriched by hunting dogs, and so have many of you I bet. Just a real short one to start us off. A few...

Some of you guys will remember that I was lucky enough to get a big honkin bison two winters ago, but we left the hide on the meat to keep it cleaner to get home, so no hide to tan. Well, I kinda regretted that and put the word out I was looking for a good hide should one come available. A...

Don't laugh! Some folks who knit sweaters love putting unique things on them for buttons. : ) I rough cut some potential buttons the other day out of caribou antler. If someone wants all of them for free and is willing to pay for postage you've got yourself a deal. Mike

This report said there's only 56 km left to build. Planning to open 2017, originally they hoped for 2019. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/inuvik-tuktoyaktuk-highway-gravel-1.3411200 The reason this is so cool is it makes a hunt for Pacific Common Eiders and King Eiders a real possibility...

Export permits provided. Traceable harvest information is written right on each skull. I have a few XL skulls for $150 US. Bullet damaged and smaller ones starting at $75. All are super clean and bleached, no smell at all. If you want I can check the regs for your state to see if an...

The top one in the picture is just for example of how I attached the reel to mine. The two for sale are the ones below it. One is mahogany finished with an oil stain, the other is unfinished pine. $30 plus postage for the mahogany one, $20 for the pine one. A big hit with the younger fishing...

Hollowed red cedar, weighted keel. $200 plus postage. Thanks, Mike

SOLD Jan 22. Canadian made of ash and rawhide snowshoes with MEC bindings. Good, used condition. $100 plus postage. They are rated for people 150 - 200 lbs, bindings adjust. Mike

$200 plus shipping. The body is from one big honkin' piece of cedar, so no seam. I'll attach a pad weight and a leather loop if you want, but the fancy stand is not included. : ) Mike

Just booked a flight to Austin for Feb 12th to meet up with Mac coming in from the Philippines to do a little hog hunting and exploring Louis Lamour country. Man is this going to be fun. We're going to be around Llano for the first bit, then planning to see some of West Texas. If any of you...