Real old school...

Only did the paperboy bag (SF Chronicle), and of coarse, the giant mesh bags you could fit a Whale in...lol I do remember hauling 3 doz. weighted keel magnum Mallard and Sprig decoys in that mesh bag. I wouldn't do that now, but I was a young buck back then, so it wasn't too bad...lol

 

Yes. We used the Newman Bennett inflatable decoys if I remember correctly.

 

Kids had a chance in those days to start delivering news papers then move on in HS to pumping gas and cleaning wind shields . It was a good way to learn work skills like being on time,working hard and earning the money for things you wanted. No one expected to be handed everything!

 

Some of us started off picking prunes at 10, then work your way up the farm work ladder.

 

That was close to my hood, but not my territory. Parents still live in the same house near Park st.

 

it was a lot more balanced than a backpack bag like we have these days - carried Victor mallards (about a dozen) and then another dozen or so drop and fill (forget the brand name) they could roll up and fit in between the victors - for day it was state of the art stuff - thos blow ups looks awful - the beeks would be bent on some - didnt seem to stop the ducks ? Maybe they were dumber back then!

 

Or the decoy manufacturers have brainwashed all of us. I suspect the ducks are as dumb today as back then.

 

Waterfowl Hunting became an industry instead of a mere something for enjoyment

 

Are you talking about the rubber decoys with the metal ring on the bottom that you dropped on the water to capture air? DeeK's were the name if I remember correctly.
We had about four dozen of those, I don't remember anything flaring of of them.
I wish I had them now, they started making them again a few years ago but they cost more than some standard decoys.
http://www.deeksdecoys.com/?post_type=product