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Post by brokennock on May 6, 2023 4:47:08 GMT -7
I'm placing this here because it is equipment for hunting,,, it a hunting story.
Does anyone have period reference to use of decoys for hunting? Preferably in Colonial America, not Britain or Europe.
Ducks, turkeys, or even deer?
Thanks.
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Post by spence on May 6, 2023 8:38:17 GMT -7
I have never seen any reference to the use of any kind of decoys. I don't count this report of a kind of self-decoy.
The Pennsylvania Gazette
March 10, 1757
ANNAPOLIS, January 27.
Some time ago, in Hunting Time, a Man in Frederick County, having made himself a Jacket of the Skin of a Deer , with the Hair and Tail on, went out to hunt for Deer , and as he was creeping thro Bushes in pursuit of Prey, was seen by another Hunter, who taking him for a Deer , fired at him, and shot thro' the Skin, but happily did not kill. (It is not improbable but he might wear the Horns as well as the Tail).
Spence
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Post by brokennock on May 6, 2023 15:56:06 GMT -7
I've seen much on natives doing similar to this, seems a bad idea once firearms became involved.
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Post by Keith on May 6, 2023 18:56:29 GMT -7
Native Americans made the first known decoys, "bird lures", from bulrushes painted in natural colors. The early colonists imitated the Native American lures, that eventually were used in Europe. However, by the late 18th century Americans wanted something more durable. They began carving decoys from wood. Since they were made to attract the bird's eye, not the human's, carvers made and painted them in patterns suggesting plumage. www.go-star.com/antiquing/antique_detective1005.htm |
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Post by spence on May 6, 2023 19:34:48 GMT -7
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Post by brokennock on May 7, 2023 5:11:23 GMT -7
....They began carving decoys from wood. Since they were made to attract the bird's eye, not the human's, carvers made and painted them in patterns suggesting plumage.... So completely the opposite of the vast majority of modern fishing lures, 😆 Thank you. Again, I had seen the native rush "lures" or decoys,,, but I had not known that whites copied them so early. |
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