Decoys going cheap.

Was washing up a fizzy bottle the other day and I started drawing lines on it in my head. Grabbed it out of the recycling bin this afternoon and got to work with a pen and some cutting gear.

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Poke a couple of holes in the right places for stakes, sand the surface a little and paint, .... voila "the cheap buggers pigeon decoy!" Advantage being they will be very light and compact and cost next to nothing.

Please show us when they are done if you can.

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Originally Posted by 7mmsaum

Please show us when they are done if you can.

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Will do.

Whoa nice thinking gives you the 3D angle. Bit of spray paint you will be sweet

Thats pretty clever the way you cut them.

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Originally Posted by gadgetman

Was washing up a fizzy bottle the other day and I started drawing lines on it in my head. Grabbed it out of the recycling bin this afternoon and got to work with a pen and some cutting gear.


Poke a couple of holes in the right places for stakes, sand the surface a little and paint, .... voila "the cheap buggers pigeon decoy!" Advantage being they will be very light and compact and cost next to nothing.

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How would it go if you glued some real pigeon feathers to them ?? Give you an excuse to go gather some too !!!

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Originally Posted by Happy

How would it go if you glued some real pigeon feathers to them ?? Give you an excuse to go gather some too !!!

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Would probably work but I wouldn't be bothered with such a light weight shell. One thing I did notice was the feathers are mainly white with only colour on the tips so would need to do a lot of gluing.

och ae,yon :Dgadget a canny wee fellow.

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Originally Posted by kotuku

och ae,yon :Dgadget a canny wee fellow.

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Aye!

Great idea.......patent it.......

They look good gadget, with a bit of paint they will do the trick. Bugger gluing feathers on, cut the wings of a pigeon and hold them on with a rubber band. Of course you could just use the whole dead pigeon as a fully flocked decoy.

For your next trick see if you can make one of these. Apparently they are the thing to have for pigeons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8_AmBWHRn8

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Originally Posted by MassiveAttack

For your next trick see if you can make one of these. Apparently they are the thing to have for pigeons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8_AmBWHRn8

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Was looking at those, looks pretty easy.

If you can make it I would say do it. I find pigeons love movement I made a flapper to flag them to me.

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Originally Posted by gadgetman

Would probably work but I wouldn't be bothered with such a light weight shell. One thing I did notice was the feathers are mainly white with only colour on the tips so would need to do a lot of gluing.

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now thats some rcycling i could get behind gadget.
ive seen them somwhere painted up and just put on the ground grey bieng the dominent colour but i guess with our ferals black and even brown would work to. presumembly there was no wind when they were just chucked out but you could probably kite them to if the winds right:D
i imagine on a stake they,d flap in the wind you could even vary stake hieght to have a pretty snazzy and cost effective spread
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Originally Posted by gadgetman

Would probably work but I wouldn't be bothered with such a light weight shell. One thing I did notice was the feathers are mainly white with only colour on the tips so would need to do a lot of gluing.

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Skin them wings and all ! Stretch them over mould and let them dry . I've seen goose deaks done that way , looked primo!

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Originally Posted by Scouser

Great idea.......patent it.......

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Just to crush GM dreams of riches- I have hunted over a nice spread of these decoys. GM is in very good company coming up with the concept. They work well and with the pin in the right spot they move nicely in a light breeze, stack well, and are cheap.

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Originally Posted by Tim Allen

Just to crush GM dreams of riches- I have hunted over a nice spread of these decoys. GM is in very good company coming up with the concept. They work well and with the pin in the right spot they move nicely in a light breeze, stack well, and are cheap.

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Thanks, seems so straight forward I figured someone else must have traveled this way before me. Just looking at how fragile the commercial available ones appear to be I figured there must be an easy option for DIY. And I didn't have pigeon on my mind, and taste buds, when I was drying the bottle, ... honest!

Upland stalker made a set out of plastic bottles a year or so ago. He reported that they worked well. The thread is still in the gamebird section of the fish n hunt forum if you want to go and find it.

3.5hp B&S powerplant with a couple of stiff steel rods welded on would do a primo job gadget.mind you if decoyl eaves arm it'll probably kill any thing in its way.