Looking to feather your retirement nest? Try scouring the attic for grandpa’s old duck decoys. A pair of Minnesota-made duck decoys fetched $90,000 at a Christie’s New York auction in mid-January, ...

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Jake Bakken from Laporte was selling multiple styles of decoys. Some were realistic, others were made of multiple layers of ...

Randy Root is a master of mallards. As a kid, he grew up on the south side of Chicago, but in 1960 his family bought several acres along the east side of the Illinois River not far from Peoria. Root ...

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 ...

Most of today's duck hunters outfit themselves with plastic decoys that retail for about $5 each. Effective, but lacking the grace of the realistically carved wood decoys of the past. The carving is ...

MOUNT VERNON — Marty Hanson began carving decoys when he was 10 years old. Some 41 years later, the Hayward, Minnesota, resident is a world-class carver whose decoys are highly sought by collectors ...

, and, of course, historic guns. We hope you enjoy. Stay classy, everyone._ Until he carved his first decoys, Jerry Talton was, by his own description, a “wild-ass redneck surfer dude” from the North ...

MIDDLE RIVER, Minn.-Joel Huener says he's always been "kind of a rabid do-it-yourselfer," a trait that also rubbed off on his hunting and fishing. "I tie flies, I make rods and I load my own ammo," ...

BURLINGTON — Sure, the weather wasn’t great and the “pond” was a container filled with water atop a picnic table Saturday at Maiben Park, but that didn’t stop a group of decoy carvers from showing off ...