How to make a profile of geese with your own hands from plywood?

Any hunter knows that to successfully hunt the goose, you need a good bait. This is the goose profile, which is made of a durable material, and it is called the manna goose. Such baits can be bought, and it is better to make a profile of geese with your own hands. It will be much cheaper, and the creative process itself will bring pleasure. About how to make baits, and also how to use them, read this article.

Why Manny Geese Are Needed

Profiles of geese, or manic geese, are artificial, man-made bird figures, on which hunters beckon prey. Goose, being a herd bird, after seeing the relatives, joins them.

Previously, as baits used half of the automobile tires for the ground and plastic bottles - for water. But over time, more effective technologies have emerged.

Large flocks are more attractive for these birds, therefore making geese profiles requires patience with their own hands - the more, the more effective for the hunter.

For good hunting it is important to make profiles of the right shape and color. In order to achieve greater reliability, you can use photos of geese in a slightly top view, and color the layouts in a similar way. This is all the more important because hunting for a goose is very popular nowadays, and migrating flocks are watched by a variety of baits, birds become smarter during the hunting season and learn to distinguish counterfeits.

A great role is played by the correct placement of baits.

Conditions for successful hunting

In order for hunting to be effective, we need correctly made baits and their correct use:

• Material for manufacturing can be metal, thick hard cardboard or plywood.
• The bait must have the correct shape of the bird. This is easy to achieve by constructing a profile of geese with your own hands. How to make them as effective as possible? Excellent fit quiet, not wary position of the bird. Typically, make about twenty profiles. Half of them depicts that the bird is sitting quietly, and the second - that feeds.
• An important color is also important. First, it must be plausible. Secondly, the shade of color should coincide with the breed of bird that lives or appears in the hunting region.

Materials and tools for manufacturing

In order to make a profile on the goose yourself, you need to prepare the following materials and tools:

• Hardboard, sheet iron or plywood for the manufacture of profiles;
• Wooden pegs to fasten the figures;
• Dense cardboard for drawing a stencil ;
• Paints for coloring figures;
• File or sandpaper for grinding edges;
• Brushes or a spray gun for dye application;
• Chisel or electric jigsaw for cutting out the layout;
• Large scissors for cutting the stencil;
• Turpentine - for addition in oil paints.

How to make a stencil

Before you make a profile on a goose yourself, you need to prepare a special form - a stencil. To make it, you need to do the following:

1. Choose from various sources those images that are considered the most suitable.
2. The drawing can be painted by yourself or printed on a printer.
3. The dimensions of the drawing should be one and a half to two times larger than the original, so that they can be clearly seen from a bird's eye view. Optimal dimensions are from sixty centimeters to one meter from the tip of the tail to the beak. The exact size depends on the position of the bird in the picture.
4. Represent the geese in the profile. Here, two options are preferable: a feeding bird with its neck lowered to the ground, or being on its guard. In the second case, the neck is straight, and the beak is parallel to the ground.
5. Draw out the contours of the goose on the cardboard and cut it with any suitable instrument.

How to make gooey profiles with your own hands

The sequence of production of goose profiles consists of the following stages:

• Prepare stencils of goose profiles of two kinds;
• Impose a stencil on the surface of the material from which the profiles will be made (hardboard, plywood or other);
• Cut out the breadboard - the profile of the bait with a hacksaw, chisel or jigsaw, depending on the material;
• Grinding paper or a file to process the edges of the product;
• Priming and dyeing the resulting models;
• From a tree to make stakes for fastening of profiles;
• The resulting pegs painted with gray or brown paint, identical in color to the goose profile;
• After complete drying of the cover from the bottom of each manic goose, cut the notches to fix the pegs (the length of the stakes depends on the location of the profiles: for the earth, it will be enough for fifteen centimeters, and for water, up to fifty).

Coloring profiles

In order to be convenient to paint ready-made forms, they must be placed on the floor. Next, the gray paint is diluted, which will serve as the basis, primer for painting. At the next stage the layout is covered with a layer of gray paint.

It is especially necessary to primer the edges of the profile so that their color does not differ from the main one. The primer should dry well, after which it is possible to start painting.

Most often, the profile of geese, made with their own hands, is covered with oil paints. This is due to the fact that the last long stay on the surface, slowly washed away and protect the bait well from dampness.

Instead of oil paint, you can also use alkyd matte enamel with the use of colors. The desired color is added to the enamel base and diluted to the desired shade. The paint is applied with a brush or with a spray gun. Apply a white sealant to the background. He also can replace the gray primer. The sealant is applied with a thick brush on the profile, and then the paint is applied from above.

Things to consider when painting

Before making goose profiles from plywood, you need to take into account that this material has not enough good characteristics of moisture resistance. As a result, the paint on it will be kept worse compared to other bases. Therefore, before you apply the dye on the plywood, it is necessary to prime each profile with warm (warmed) linseed oil. After this procedure, to continue further work, you need to wait until the surface dries completely.

It must be remembered that it is impossible to cover the profiles with brilliant enamel paints, since such a layer glows in the sun, thus repelling the prey. If a waterproof oil paint is used for painting, turpentine is added to make it dull.

You can apply and acrylic paints, which are also not afraid of dampness and frost.

A full drawing of the feathers should not be dealt with, since birds can not distinguish them from the altitude of flight.

Helpful Tips

Staining of models should be conducted in the open air.

In order to lure a flock of geese on the hunt, the coloring of the profiles is better done as in the white-fronted goose. It is also desirable to emphasize the contrast of colors in plumage. For this, the place under the tail is made white, and the rump is painted black. The back of the bait should be more dark, and the belly lighter. Beak and legs are painted in a dark yellow or pink color. The carcass is performed in a gray or brown tone.

After painting one side, it is necessary to allow the surfaces to dry completely. Then the layout is inverted, and the second side is identical to the first one.

Also it is necessary to prepare the stakes before making goose profiles. On the goose, the pegs for baits can be made of two types: removable, which can be inserted already when they arrive at the hunting site - they are cleft on one side and fixed with wire so that they do not split; And stationary, which are attached with small nails.

The paint stays on the profile for about two seasons. Then it needs to be corrected.

To ensure that baits do not take down in strong winds, each is equipped with a small loop, which is attached to the flyer, inserted into the ground.

How to make a profile on a goose: the way the second

There is another version of the production of profiles, which are divided hunters.

The first step is to purchase a five-millimeter PES based on the size of the profiles and the fact that they will be two-layered.

Next are photos of geese, processed on a computer to obtain a contour, increase two to three times and are printed. If possible, the printing is performed immediately on a large format, and if not - the contours are printed on several A4 sheets, cut out and glued together. You can draw a stencil and with your own hand.

With the choice of size it is difficult to go too far - the more, the more useful. Hunters know that bird eyes can not determine linear dimensions. If only it could be seen from a height.

Then the stencil is superimposed on the base and cut out by any scissors on the contour, but do not forget about the double number of forms. After this, thick sturdy threads (kapron or twine) are stitched in pairs with a wrapping seam with a step of about two centimeters. On the abdomen from below is a hole for planting on the peg.

How to arrange profiles

To hunt successfully, the plan for arranging the profiles must be thought out in advance. To do this, take into account the terrain, the direction of the wind.

To establish the profile of geese made with their own hands, it is necessary at different angles and in different directions, so that at different approaches the flock saw entire bodies of manna geese, and not their ends. In the center, as a rule, images of feeding birds are placed, and on the edges - sentry.

Flocks usually come in for landing on the second-third lap. If this did not happen, and two flocks flew by, that is, an occasion to ponder and rearrange the baits in a different way.

Hunting disguise

The place of disguise of a hunter is called a sitting. It can be purchased or dig a hole. Set the sitting for the purchase option is better near the established profiles (about twenty meters from them), where there is uneven terrain or thickets of tall grass. On a flat surface, the groove is arranged so that it is convenient for seating for many hours in it and not too much.

And one more important moment, which many omit: the open face of the hunter. It is clearly visible from long distances and glows in the sun, so for hunting it can be painted black and green stripes with the help of make-up or make-up.

Conclusion

In order to hunt with pleasure, you need to prepare for it in advance. Most importantly - do not forget the profile of the geese, made with your own hands. They are an indispensable attribute of hunting for a bird, and without them this pleasure is hardly possible.

You also need to take care of the car, sleeping bag, overalls and shoes, a set of dishes and a stock of dry wood. For the device of a saturation you will need a pick, spade, shovel and ax. Well and not to manage, of course, without the weapon, a camouflage grid, a lantern, a compass and a pair of binoculars.

With all the recommendations given in this article, hunting will be successful and effective.