Went deer hunting this morning (saw alot of white fluffy tails heading the other way). So I figured that I would walk down and check out where the trail went. I walked down about a 1/4 mile and found my uncle's other blind. Walking back, I saw a nested duck just off the trail. It never moved. I stepped a bit closed and it still never moved. I figured that it was hurt and just hoping I would pass it by. I finally got close enough to see it more clearly.


Turns out it was a G&H decoy that had evidently floated away during one of the last few floods. It was probably 1/4 mile away from the creek.

G&H Gadwall. Nice find.

You should put it back where you found it. This is their breeding season.

Plastic birds don't taste very good. They are fun to shoot when they're not yours though.

If you don't have a duck stamp you should not have picked it up.

I was hunting pheasant on a preserve and shot a bird that fell into marshy area of high grass. I sent my springer in and she brought back a mallard. I sent her back in and she brought back my bird. There I am hunting with lead shot and a duck in hand. I talked to the owner who figured it had to have gone at least half mile from a local duck pond that had had some shooting on it that morning. I cleaned the duck it had one piece of about #4 steel shot in the breast. That was 20+ years ago. I've always wondered how I would have explained it to a game warden.

Wonder if someone crossed your property to hunt the creek and dropped a decoy?

It's ok, they already hatched and flew away





I doubt it, it's a fight to get back to the creek in that part of the property, more than likely someone upstream was duck hunting and lost/left the decoy and it got swept away in one of the floods, it just settled where I found it and the water receded.



I hear they are like Longhorn steaks, boil them with a horseshoe ans when the horseshoe is tender, throw the steak away and eat the horseshoe.



I wonder if you gotta have a special stamp for that type of waterfowl.



That would be a good one to see but, bad one to live through. I believe the proper way to start that conversation is, "Sir, you are never gonna believe this..."

lol

I could tell it was a decoy from the first pic. I have started a nice collection of decoys I have found.

They bite when cornered.

Good one!

LOL, I think you just wrote G&H's next commercial.

I like g&h made in America .i thought it was real from the pics

It looked real until I got right up on it. The tip of the bill had been worn/chewed off but other than that it was in good shape. I am going to fix the nose and put it with my other dekes.

That duck dont look good

Imwould have ran to the closest vet with it