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I bought some of the "Hot Buy" dekes a fee years ago. For me the design was bad, could not attach the weights around the head, no neck. And then, as soon as you added water, the paint came off. I would never buy them again.

The worst Avery product was their "tangle free" line knock-off. Unfortunately, my club bought 400 new decoys one year and we rigged them all with that Avery line. This stuff turned out to be very weak and we lost a lot of weights as line broke very easily. It cost more money to correct the probelm by re-doing the weitghts and lines. I wrote them about this and received no reply.

I have had success with many Avery products, but I avoid anything to do with decoys.

If you guys will pm your house address, I'll come around and haul off those sorry blocks for you. Just because they are so sorry and I'm a new guy around here

You ain't fooling anybody. I've watched you hunt.

h2o_dog wrote:...One problem with the small hot buys is that they don't have enough neck to wrap a strap weight around.

the reason those "hot buy" decoys have no neck (and their predecessor had a removable keel) is so they occupy 20% less space in a box...in a shipping container....on a boat from China....thus $24.95/doz.