Who has made their own snow goose decoys?

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Anyone done it, or got recomendations? I'm thinking of making some 1/4 ply sillouettes and painting them.
Who has done it, or used white garbage bags etc? I'm not going to blow hundreds of bucks on a big spread of store bought decoys for this year. Maybe start picking some up, but it's going to have to be DIY this year.
 
I have hunted them only one time with white kitchen garbage bags (50-ish) and a willow blind (two 4ft 2x4s set in a "V" toward the deeks with holes drilled along the top and bushy willow branches stuck in). I just threw a lump of dirt from the pea field in each one, gave it a twist or two and spread them out 20 -30 yds in a fan shape into the prevailing wind. That was in the Smeaton area NE of Prince Albert early in the season though, the young ones were clueless, my hunting partner and I had our 20 birds each in about 35-40 min. By the time they hit the south lands where you are at, I imagine they have wised up a fair bit.
 
Made silhouettes out of white plastic election signs after a federal election.
 
Made some windsock decoys from XL Tyvek coveralls, arms and legs each make a decoy and two from the body material - works well with uneducated birds
 
I've used empty 1 gal Javex jugs back in the 70-80's with good results....sometimes.... Snow's are notorious for being finicky decoyers, one day they will drop like rocks into ten decoys, the next day they won't decoy to several hundred. The dirtiest weather day you can stand will help with decoying snows.

The jugs were very bulky but cheap and durable. They were easy to get by the hundreds in local landfills, just collect e few every trip to the dump and give the bottom end a couple shots of black paint from a spray (to simulate the black wingtips) can and your in business.
 
Yup. Kitchen Catcher bags, knot one corner so one side fills with air, and peg it to the ground using a 12" stake. That way the 'body' fills with air easier.
 
Grouse Man said:
Yup. Kitchen Catcher bags, knot one corner so one side fills with air, and peg it to the ground using a 12" stake. That way the 'body' fills with air easier.
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Same here when I was a young lad, white garbage bags and we laid in the middle of them with white coveralls on. Bagged our limit.
 
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