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Hunting Ducks Over Art

Hunting Ducks Over Art
Hunting Ducks Over Art
Decoys were made for one purpose, and that was to kill ducks. It didn’t have to be a work of art … but every decoy maker had an idea of what they were supposed to look like.”
— Evans McKinney

By Steve Wright

HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. – Capt. Bob Jobes could use more customers like the one who walked into his shop one day and said, “How much do you want for those decoys?”

“All of them?” Jobes replied.

“Yeah, all of them,” the man answered.

“He bought 50 that day, and now that guy has 650 of my decoys,” Jobes said. “When he was a kid...

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