Goose silhouette decoy patterns

[Ottawacats]

Hello,
I was checking to see if anyone has a pattern for goose silhouettes? I would like to try to make some from the plastic sign board material so I can add some numbers to our flock of decoys. I tried some searching online to locate a pattern but came up with nothing (free), if I cant I guess my next set will be free hand drawing. So if anyone can help me out that would be great.

Matt

 

[tylerjwitty]

I have had terrible luck w sillowets ( hillbillaneese) my opinion is 4 big foot decoys are better than 50 low grade decs

 

[krchov]

search ebay and kijiji used decoys are cheap

 

[jlovie]

I just looked at a few pics of geese and free handed it. They seem to work so far.

 

[Ottawacats]

So far I have free handed three different patterns tonight. One of the guys we hunt with is picking up the board material tomorrow, $15.25 PER 4X8 sheet. So we will give it a try and see what we get, yes I would like more bigfoots or shells but the $$$ aint there at the moment. When it is I will purchase more but I don't mind the DIY attempt for now. I did get a PM from someone that is emailing me a few templates as well to try out.

Matt

 

[tylerjwitty]

Don't forget you can ruin a spread by adding poor quality . Like I said , from my experience cut outs are a waste of time

 

[mrgoat]

In my experience one of the main reason home made silhouettes fail is guys draw a profile of an alert bird. Necks to tall and forward. Draw up some feeders, some sleeping, some resting, you need some guard profiles but just a few. There was a fella posted a thread a week or so back on some silhouettes he made and painted. His patterns were really good as his birds looked very relaxed. A relaxed spread makes incoming geese feel secure. Tall long forward necks are the sign of alert nervous birds and incoming birds will be shy.

 

[rubberdown]

Don't forget you can ruin a spread by adding poor quality . Like I said , from my experience cut outs are a waste of time

Odd to hear you say that, I just read an article about spreads and in the article, 3 professional hunters/guides where used for the story. All 3 of them use silhouettes but whats more interesting is that one of them ONLY used silhouettes, no shells and no full bodies and he claimed to have great success with his spreads.

To the OP, I made mine from the plastic sign board you mentioned, and I used spray paint from Home Depot for the paint. I used pieces of the sign board as paint stencils to separate my colors and they turned out great. Maybe when they clear the corn off the fields here I'll get to see how well they work.