All I could find localy were Flambeau and something like them but they didn't have eyelets. After being warned by Bob A. about the eye hook breaking off, I decided to do a little improving. I cut the stake off and then worked though the hole that was left.
This is 1/2" cpvc pipe (hot water piping form Lowes), jewelry beads form hobby lobby and eyelets.
1. Screw the eyelet into the bead and then use plastic epoxy to glue the bead at an angle onto a length of pipe. Set the bead so the eyelet will come out of the back of the decoy at the correct angle.
2. Heat up a eyelet and melt a slot in the back of the decoy where you want the eye to protrude.
3. Slip a doubled piece of wire through the eye hole and out the bottom hole. Spread the eyelet and then close it around the loop of wire. use the wire to guide the eye and bead through the decoy and pull it through the slot. It will be tight and that is good.
4. Use a dab of plastic epoxy around the eye and the base hole. Allow to dry and then cut the cpvc pipe to length desired. Touch up with flat black. BTW, Sherwin Williams Wrought Iron Black is a close match to the factory finish.
5. Cut three stakes from a 4' length of drive way marker stakes. They are fiberglass and can be sharpened with a pencil sharpener. Paint the bottom portion of the stakes black leaving the top safty yellow so you can see them when you pick up your decoys.
I got most of these Ideas for others on this site and then compiled them into one decoy. It makes hanging them a breeze and gives them a little movement on the ground.
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"If money can fix it, it ain't broke" The great theologian and my crow hunting partner AW.
You look like you are smarter than the average pup. I just screwed some eyelits in the back of my sentry's. They are all the time comming out, they seem to unscrew themselves. I see how your idea would be superior, great post I will do this in the off season to all my hangers. If you would have used all steel then Shane would have thought of that a long time ago
