Old School Deeks

[Angus]

The girlfriend's father used to waterfowl back in the 1970s back in Ontario, and she told him that I also hunted ducks. Last weekend when she went to visit, he hauled out a couple of bags of old school deeks and said to give them to me.

Kinda cool seeing these models from the '70s (I'm assuming). Mostly bluebills, but a couple other mixed in as well. Says on the undersides they were manufactured by American Animal Trap Co. and Woodstream Co., both out of Lititz, Pennsylvania.

I just may have to clean these up and add them to my spread next year.













And one he said his grandfather carved in the '60s

[KB90]

Awesome, I'd love to get my hands on a couple for decoration in the hunting room

[WaderGator]

thats an awesome score. my girlfriends dad has quite a few that he's collected over the years. The frustrating part is the guy has never hunted a day in his life!

[lip_ripper00]

cool looking for sure, what are they made of? The bottom one is cedar I'm sure as I have one kicking around, KB90 if you want this type pm me an adress I would rather see it go to someone that wants it than sitting here.

[Big Lew]

If you are able to retrieve the pertinent information from them such as manufacturer, year, type, etc. maybe you should check around (internet, google) to see what they're worth. Some of the old wooden decoys are very valuable, especially hand carved ones.

[Angus]

Well, they are all made of plastic, except for the a couple of the roughly carved ones made of cedar.

The plastic is heavy, not like the material of the current deeks at all.

[heyblast]

Wow are you ever lucky those are in really nice shape. Try them out for sure, they worked back then they'll work now, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you shot over them. Don't repaint them that will destroy their value, those are collectable even though they aren't made of wood.

[f350ps]

I used to have a bunch of the ones in your third pic down, they were a very good deke but a bitch to pack with the hard plastic digging in to yer back. K

[Angus]

After a brief internet search, it turns out some of these deeks could be from the 1960s.

In 1966 Animal Trap Co. changed their name to Woodstream Co. Some of the deeks I have are marked "Animal Trap Co.," while others are marked "Woodstream Co."

They started making them out of a hard plastic (tenite) in 1952.

It's cool what you can find out there in cyberspace.