In a lot of years, ringnecks are number one birds in the bag at Thief Lake, and we shoot a lot of them. I carved my first ringneck decoys in 1997, the year after we moved to Minnesota.  They were hollow basswood, and poorly sealed, and they cracked. I salvaged some of the heads and put them on cedar bodies and still hunt with them.

This is a newer generation of ringer decoy, made from hollow northern white cedar with a basswood head and weighted oak keel. This bird is in a pose that I like for ringers - the turned head looking over your shoulder while swimming away look.  This was this decoy's first season in the spread, and we did well on ringnecks this year.