Mark St. John Erikson of The Daily Press writes about a man who was trying to cut his hunting costs turns into a expansive collection:
The first time Tommy O’Connor III bought an old bird decoy, he was simply a thrifty teenager trying to cut down on his hunting costs. Even after making the drive over to coastal North Carolina, the enterprising Suffolk kid figured he could save a few bucks by stocking up on cheap, old-fashioned wooden floaters instead of then-expensive plastic. And he’d heard these cast-off relics were so plentiful along the waterfront that they were stacked up around trees by the hundreds.