“Hard to tell this thing from a real crappie,” said my friend Dan Scherer, as we passed around the glistening decoy. “Except for we can’t clean and fry it.” In my hands, the crappie was solid, but its ...

Hingham native Bob Mosher is not only an avid collector of New England decoys, he also carves them. A decoy is a representation of a bird used by hunters to entice wild game birds into shooting range.

J.P. HAND sits at his workbench placing a freshly painted rig of 10 brant decoys into a slot bag while we get ready to hunt in the morning. He constructed each brant from three pieces of Atlantic ...

The imitation waterfowl, made to resemble their living counterparts, have been used for centuries to lure birds from the sky to within shooting range for waiting hunters. The first decoys, made from ...

Duane Steinkopf's motivation for carving his own spearing decoys was hardly storybook stuff, far less romantic than good old-fashioned German frugality would allow. "I started because I wasn't going ...