Those are the new ones that I heard they were going to come out with but didn't think they did...they replaced the ones I have. I like'em and thank you because I'll probably add a dozen. The downside is if you are a guy who wants to stand in one place and throw your decoys out...it won't work...over 1/2 of them will be laying on their side. You almost have to place them. Thanks!

They look ok, but Lots of other brands look more realistic IMO. The feather detail isn't there, and the colors don't have any depth and variation like you find in GHG, Avian X, etc. the eyes also look very unrealistic. The green is all one shade, where the green on GHG Wigeon heads has different shades, purple, etc like a real bird. It may not make much of a difference as far as fooling the birds is concerned, but I figure the whole point of a decoy is to look like a real duck, so I might as well have the most realistic ones I can find. You never know what is going to convince a given group to fall into your spread on a given day, so why wouldn't you want decoys that look like the real deal? I think we can all agree great looking decoys can't hurt!

I assume the painting process G&H uses limits the color variation to a degree, and that they choose to use a coarser feather structure because it helps retain paint somehow. G&H decoys don't seem to chip or flake at all, the paint only comes off if it scrapes/rubs off or fades. I would run 100% G&H blocks if they looked like GHG decoys, G&H decoys are better in every way other than realism.

Ducks don't care about a crappy paint job at all, so don't buy the ones with good paint jobs that turn crappy and are cheaper buy the ones that cost more and are consistently crappy through the life of the decoy.

Duck hunting 101

With the keelless do you have problems with them rolling over during the hunt if it is to windy?

Anyone here run the dakota extreme mallards with the flocked heads? How do they hold up?

Those have a concave bottom on them so they sort of create a suction to the water. I won't say I've never had one flip but I'll say the dog has flipped more on their side than the wind has. To me the hassle of setting them and the hassle of having the dog or wind flip them are far out weighed by how much they move with just a slight breeze.

I've got a few brands, some old school, some newer (Flambeua Storms up to Avian-X) I've hunted the storm fronts the last few years and they offer a lot of value. I'm tough on dekes, they've got good paint, thick reinforced plastic, handled temps in the single digits without cracking, being banged around in the the bottom of boats and decoys bags, being shot (heavy plastic, clean holes or dents with no long cracks or splits.... (impatient hunters + expensive dekes are an exercise in futility

Handle a hardcore, avian-x and a storm front. You'll see the difference in quality vs value.

Dozen mallard storm fronts can be found for $39.99.

Judd is right though, the Drake breeze riders move in zero wind. Looks like they got a perch tied to em

Don't bang em around too much though! They're thin thin

Dakota deeks