A Big Thanks To Ecoaster

DropTine · Post by **DropTine** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:02 am

I met up with Steve yesterday where he gave me his tom fan he had! I really appreciate the fan Steve. I did it up yesterday in the B-Mobile Fan Holder last night and glued the secondary feathers on with a hot glue gun, it looks awesome!

Here are a couple pics, sorry about the bad quality, I have no idea where my digital camera is so I took them with my Blackberry Cell Phone.

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http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc19 ... s00007.jpg
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc19 ... s00005.jpg

Thanks again,

Matt

saxman · Post by **saxman** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:09 am

Looks good

Normous · Post by **Normous** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:11 am

Looks real to me. Good luck soon!!!

Maritimer · Post by **Maritimer** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:17 am

Looks like the real thing, now all you have to worry about is someone shooting your decoy.

DropTine · Post by **DropTine** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:25 am

Plucked them one by one and put them in the holder. Then glued the secondary feathers on the quill of the main feathers with a hot glue gun. Well worth the time!

Matt

saxman · Post by **saxman** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:31 am

I worry about spooking my sub dominate birds with the full strut tom Deke
I use a 1/2 strut Jake,That gets um mad

DropTine · Post by **DropTine** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:35 am

I lay that tail right down and I cut the beard short to look like a jake. Last year I had a jake run in and strut around it, too bad I missed him at 8yds with my Exomax.

Matt

Sandman · Post by **Sandman** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:57 am

That looks great .. Congrats ..

R.J. · Post by **R.J.** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:35 am

Sweeeet !

hikerman · Post by **hikerman** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:12 pm

Very nice

roly · Post by **roly** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:12 pm

saxman wrote:I worry about spooking my sub dominate birds with the full strut tom Deke
I use a 1/2 strut Jake,That gets um mad

Had the same problem last year , used pretty boy with full fan ,had lots of birds but won't come near him.

ecoaster · Post by **ecoaster** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:03 pm

No problem buddy. Hope it brings in the dominant BIG BOY for you. That was a quick job you did on the deke. You must be a bit antsy to get the season going

. I have another tom fan left and may make up a jake tail to put behind my deke.

dutchhunter · Post by **dutchhunter** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:32 pm

we had the same problem with a full strut pretty boy so we went to a jake fan and had a lot better luck .i find a lot more birds will come in to a jake that is in strut around the hens DUTCH

diesel · Post by **diesel** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:36 pm

Really looks great.