So after seeing a few “DIY” posts and articles around the web on making these things, I decided to give it a shot. We all know ducks dont shoot water out their butts when they feed, but at least it gives a little more motion to the spread. This came from a quiver butt decoy that I bought late last yr. I wasn't satisfied with it, not near enough motion for me. Anyway, It definitely took a little trial and error, but I got it working the way I want to right now.

The only thing I have left to do is epoxy the battery terminals so I can use the battery as the decoy anchor. I’ll probably give the PVC a quick coat of spray paint too so that it doesnt stand out so much.

The best part about this “design” is that I got it rigged up to be remote controlled. To me that’s the key with all motion decoys. You never know how the birds are going to respond so it’s nice to be able to turn it off from the blind if birds seem to be flaring.

I think I ended up spending about $70 and quite a few hours...

Here are a few pictures..




I pulled out the motor and battery holders inside the quiver butt in order to have a water tight area to keep all the wiring dry. Got great use out of the dremel for that job! I epoxied some magnets on the base to connect the feet. The feet came off an old inflatable decoy that wouldn't hold air anymore. I just cut them off and filled them with expandable foam, then glued on the other magnet. Not sure if I'll use them in the field or not...



Short video of it in action...

Thats cool!

Man that looks good!

sweet

Very cool!

Taylor,

bring that thing to my house on Saturday. I might have to copy your design 'cause I've been wanting one of those.

Looks great!

I would make one if I had tha skills, nice man. That will be handy

That is indeed cool!

looks good

"If you want, you can put on the little magnetic legs here... I don't know if that looks cool or stupid."

Hahahaha.

One of the nicest home built ones Ive seen.

I like it... expecially when you decided to "get silly with it"!

PARTY AT MOOSES' HOUSE ON SATURDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Taylor and I found out that we have some mutual friends and the wives have a little GTG planned for this Saturday.

Grab the Mrs. and come on over Greg. Seriously.

Shoot me a PM if you want to come over, I'll send you back my addy.

Very cool

lookin forward to it moose... we need to make some plans for a teal hunt

I'm going scouting today!

Im leaving the office at noon tomorrow and scouting all weekend.

I think you can get one of these at rogers for like $85. Just thought I would let ya know. I can understand savn a little cash and just the fun of building it yourself but if thats not for you the $85 aint that bad.

I got the quackinator duck butt last year, works great. I like the fact the battery is enclosed in a waterproof box that acts as a weight.

I thinking about picking up the pinteal one this year

I haven't seen them that cheap. Roger's has them on sale for $119 with free shipping... I think I would probably buy Quackinators version before I bought that one... I think he sells them for $110. A lot of guys here seem to like his a lot.

I figured it wouldn't be too hard to build, plus it would give me something to mess with before duck season. Like you mentioned, it's fun to build something like this and make it work. Anyway, for me it's a no brainer... Simple, relatively cheap, and it's remote controlled..

I think the ones you saw were the Higdon Pulsators. The one I'm talkn bout is the Mojo Flyway Feeder. It is the same thing for 84.99 on rogers.

what are you gonna do with the battery???

The only thing I have left to do is epoxy the battery terminals so I can use the battery as the decoy anchor.

Thats what he"s doing with the battery.

Taylor brought said duck butt water fountain to my house yesterday and that thing kicks arse.

I tried everything to talk him into making me one.......

I was very impressed!

Get the goods and come over to my place and we'll rig it up.. No problem...