How to Make Goose Decoy Silhouettes

Having a good decoy can aid you in attracting geese within shooting range when you're out in a hunt. Store-bought decoys can be expensive, but you can make a simple and effective decoy on your own. With some low-cost materials and a little bit of effort, you can create a goose silhouette decoy that will help to make your hunt a success by drawing in the prey.

Things You'll Need

• Pencil
• Large sheet of cardboard
• Scissors
• Large sheet of quarter-inch-thick Styrofoam
• Black marker
• Power saw
• Brown paint (flat finish)
• Black paint (flat finish)
• White paint (flat finish)
• Hanger

Instructions

1. Using a pencil, draw a slightly larger than life-sized silhouette of a goose on a sheet of cardboard. You can use a picture of a goose as your reference. Making the drawing larger that life size will make the silhouette more visible to geese flying overhead. Using pencil allows you to erase and correct mistakes until you get the shape just right.

2. Cut out the goose silhouette from the cardboard, and use this model to outline the goose body on your sheets of Styrofoam. Use the black marker to trace around the cardboard form.

3. Use the power saw to cut out the goose silhouette forms from the sheets of Styrofoam. You will need a saw because the material will be too thick to use scissors.

4. Using the black, brown and white paint, paint realistic markings on both sides of the Styrofoam silhouette. Paint one side, let it dry thoroughly, then flip it over and paint the other. Use flat paint rather than glossy because glossy paint will reflect the sun and look unnatural to the geese.

5. Straighten out a hanger and use it as a stand for your goose silhouette decoy silhouette. Stick the hanger into the ground, and run the top into the bottom of the Styrofoam. Alternately, you can drill holes in the silhouette and run the hanger through the holes.

Tips & Warnings

• Rather than purchasing Styrofoam sheets, you can recycle large Styrofoam signs of the type that are stuck on roadsides. Find a business that uses them frequently or stock up on them after an election. You will need large enough signs to create a slightly larger than life-sized decoy.

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish
• Goose Hunting Forum