Finally - Some Decoy carving

After the upland test Arlie and I headed up to northern Wisconsin to get some carving instruction from a World Champion decoy carver - Randy Tull - who happens to be a member of our retreiver club. We didn't get there until about 4:00 or so on Saturday, but were able to get quite a bit accomplished by dinner time. I worked on finishing up carving the hens for a Goldeneye rig I'm working on and Randy helped Arlie with some Canvasbacks we had all started a while back. By Sunday afternoon, he had one about ready to put eyes in and seal, and another one getting close. I finished up all the hens except one (a squaker), and only have a little bit left on that one. So all in all it was a pretty productive trip. I've got all the drakes in various stages of paint, with one of them finished. So the rig should be done before the snow melts if I can keep up with it.