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Rick wrote:John, Eric's pics are sized too large for this board and much of the horizontal image is missing unless you right click your mouse on it and choose "view image" to see the whole thing, where the birds, young and older, are side by side in that first one.

Deltaman wrote:Eric, yes, this entire picture is now able to be seen without having to make any adjustment.
Thanks John, Rick and Eric, for the clarification on why the barring is different on some birds, and great info on the size of the "white-front" being a determiner of age. Wish we had more geese on our little trickle of flyway, but at least our local Greater Canadian population seems to be growing, and the occasional big bird here and there has added a little excitement to our hunts

johnc wrote:

Rick wrote:Thanks for letting us follow along. I'm incredibly envious of your goose success - albeit not enough so to give up my little marsh pothole just yet.

And reviewing your photos has me wondering about the paint type and colors you're using on your speck decoys?

Rustoleum camoflauge --ultra flat--earth brown for the back and head

delta acrylic matte white for white stripe and white front---really any acrylic craft paint that is matte white and brush on

I really like the body position,light weight one piece,way sits on stake properly of the Avery ghg specks,not FFD---all I did was go over back and head with earth brown to darken up---I like contrast on a decoy---had quite a few singles and pairs actually land next too and looked pretty close

Now my old decoys,had to repaint whole thing
1---rustoleum camoflauge earth brown back and head
2---rustoleum camoflauge Khaki to serve as the base coat on the belly and underside until white starts on tail
3---delta acrylic matte white for whitefront,stripe on side,all under tail
4---artist acrylic black brushed on for barring


My old tanglefree snows---had to rough up with sanding---then hand brush all white

johnc wrote:As I said,I have friends that have repainted them and seems to hold

Jack Cousin,Shane Fontenot,Nick Patin,and Nathan Wright have sprayed theirs and paint seems to stick well

johnc wrote:Rustoleum camoflauge --ultra flat--earth brown for the back and head