Actually knew Al through my father in law. My FIL used to push him on flat bottom boats through the marshes of the upper patuxant river, for shooting rail birds. They were friends since the 50's. Mr. Decker used to invite us over to his 3000 acre farm on the point of the sassafras river to hunt geese. He had a guide working for him. They take you out to a pit blind in a field, and set up all of the real stuffer, decoys. He calls em in for you,. You just shoot your limit. Then you take em back to the picking shed, where they had automatic de- feather machines, and clean em up for ya. Used to go every year for many years. He would never take a dime from us ...