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Soon after legal shooting light, a healthy flock of bluewings buzzed the dekes and circled as Travis and I fired, splashing a few ducks, the freshly-burned gunpowder smoke chasing off the skeeters in the process.

I wake to darkness of the early morn Lab is ready for what he was born The gear has been packed the eve before And was a study even more With guns in hand and bags a-shoulder We enter the cold, even bolder Skiff adrift with all aboard Us, dog and what we afford Dekes afloat with careful thought Wind in mind, lessons brought Blind is ready with eyes a-sky Moments away for birds to fly Suddenly upon us, my son on call Greenheads are cupping soon to fall Mallards down, Lab on retrieve Father and son need no reprieve We share a glance and a hand Wishing there to be a band Oh how I will miss this time Most of all, my son and mine Gary Greene

Alongside a glossy new look, you'll find Skill Stick that allows players to protect the puck, receive passes without breaking stride, a whole new arsenal of 'dekes' (Canadian slang for decoy), and an all new intuitive right stick control scheme.

NHL 15 brings all the bumps and bruises of on-ice action into the palm of your hand, thanks to the super-slick Skill Stick that allows players to protect the puck, receive passes without breaking stride, and discover an arsenal of sweet new dekes.

While there are many reasons hunters are reluctance to use dekes, I believe the most common excuse is also the most flawed: generations of whitetail hunters have been trained to ambush, still-hunt or stalk bucks, and for these tactics to succeed, hunters must remain unheard and unseen by the bucks they pursue.

All three decoys feature the Expander Mounting System, which keeps the dekes from spinning, while still allowing them to move in a wind-activated, natural feeding motion (Buckwing Products, Inc., 1-800555-9908, www.buckwing.com).

Dekes brand their members, a practice the Yale Daily News has described as "degrading, sadistic, and obscene?' W.

A lone bird came a' wingin' and o'er the dekes he flew my shotgun did some swingin' and greeted the bird with 2s.

I got some confidence dekes. I bought a big old fake blue heron, a dozen plastic coots, three composite cormorants and a few real-looking crows.

In particular, with respect to the play as it unfolded, second baseman Joe Panik would be the target of such a "deke"--a word derived from the word "decoy"-- where the intent is to mislead or fool an opposing player in some way.