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Steve, I'm contemplating trying to put together a blind like the one you've shown, and wondering how did you (and especially your dad) get in and out of the boat with this setup? Did you crawl through the canvas skirt on the aft side? Thanks for all you've shared so far, and for any...

Steve, Thanks for posting the pictures. Do you still use that blind on occasion?

Steve, is that the blind you have pictured in the photos in these other threads (I couldn't get the link to work)? As usual a brilliant, and well-executed, design. http://duckboats.net/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=223172;search_string=blind;#223172...

Glad it worked out that way. I ran across this while trying to research grass/thatch rails for sneak boxes. And thanks for the compliments, Phil and Craig.

Thought I'd update. Below is how it was setup during this season. Now I'm seriously considering trying to add the type of grass rails Steve Sanford recently illustrated By the way, if your boat ever gets stuck on mud like this don't try to pull it off by yourself.

Thanks, Craig. Those pictures are quite helpful

Craig, First, thanks so much for taking the time and effort to share these videos. I enjoy them immensely for the entertainment factor, and find them really helpful in my hunting endeavors (especially since it appears that many of the places you hunt in New Jersey share a lot of...

Scott, We had even less action. Once all day a small group of Canada geese flew marginally within range. Two of us shot at them, and both of us missed. By the way, very nice photography, even without the jeep.

My friends and I hunted that area back around Thanksgiving weekend. We noticed deep tire ruts in the "footpath" out to the point. In the many years I've been going to the area this was the first time seeing that. From the looks of it whoever left the ruts back around Thanksgiving had gotten...

Could be a function of the numbers. In RI we can only shoot 2 hen mallards. Maybe there are fewer drakes around as a result, or maybe the drakes get shot at more and end up being more difficult to decoy. I get so few mallards of any gender I couldn't begin to speak with any meaningful experience.

Don't be so sure the 870 pin won't fall out. Mine did, and I never found it. Purchased replacement pin from LL Bean.

Dave, I was inspired by the Hybrid Duckboat thread on the Refuge Forums. Without realizing it, I ended up building a boat very similar to Zach Taylor's gunning jonboat. It just kind of evolved that way. I don't know if you were impressed by seeing my boat on the water, but you are more than...

John, I've used a hand sickle a number of times. Be careful if you do, I gave my finger a heck of a cut with it one year.

Don't know anything science-based about bufflehead, but here in Rhode Island, they seemed to me to be the only abundant waterfowl this season.

I used to feel a little sheepish about shooting bufflehead, but no more. First, they are a real challenge to hit being so small and swift. At least that's what I tell myself every time i miss one. Second, they're quite tough birds. A few weeks ago I shot one at about 20-30 yards, and had...

Thanks for the additional input. You know, until I read Steve Sanford's above reply I figured the explanation for seeing so few photos of people hunting out of sneakboats without motors on the transom was because nobody would be able to easily heft a motor larger than 5 horsepower. Steve, you...

Thanks for the thoughts and input. I haven't added a pole to my on-board equipment, but that's probably a good idea too. As for pulling the motor a few times to clear water, that seems smart even if the motor stays on the transom if it's going to be out of the water in that position, so...

Just wondering if anybody else has found it much more convenient to hunt out of their boat with the motor temporarily removed, and, more important, whether this poses any potential problems for the motor. I hunt out of my small (11-foot) boat by either sitting more or less upright in front of...

I figured what the heck and went quahoging instead of duck hunting today. Did pretty well too.

While visiting Cleveland this Fall I took a walk, and was astonished at the squirrels' size compared to the ones back here in Rhode Island. Don't know what sub-species the Cleveland critters were.