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I was in a hunt club in Virginia that had a fiber optic cable right of way on the property. It was hard to access and you had to be very familiar with the local terrain to get to it. One day we found a truckload of asbestos shingles dumped on it. We had no leads on the culprits. A couple of...

I still see a lot of wooden net boats along the NC Outer Banks with a motor well in them to run an outboard.

Ben, I use the same gun with a Leupold 4x. Great guns for bushytails. That picture made my mind up as I was debating going squirrel hunting. Now I know what to do this week.

Many hunters do not want to sign their duck stamps simply because they are more collectible that way. This practice can result in receiving a federal violation. I was guilty of that when I was a young duck hunter. Back in the 70's I was checked out on Virginia's Back Bay and the officer noticed...

There is a shopping mall in Colonial Heights Virginia that has a bunch of grass and ponds that attract a good population of resident Canada geese. The geese are a nuisance and get netted and relocated but keep coming back. Most of the geese there have bands. About 20 years ago we used to hunt...

I spent last summer looking for a Royalex boat. In my case I was open to a Mad RIver or Old Towne. It seems Royalex is no longer being made anymore and a good Royalex canoe is scarce and the prices are high. I have had a few but my last one was torn in half by a falling pine tree. I find there...

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Killed my first duck with a Fox Model B side by side. Banded black duck!

The last duck hunter was found a couple of miles downriver from the first victim a couple of days ago.

I have done that once or twice. One time I arrived at ramp and could not find my plug so I whittled one out of a tree branch. I tapered it and tapped it in and it never leaked a drop. Now I keep a couple extra plugs in the boat just in case. I was bored one day and decided to watch the...

Here is a tip on leaking rivets: Take a hammer on the outside of the boat and place it firmly against the leaking rivet. Have a friend tap the opposite side 4 or 5 light taps with a hammer. This compresses the rivet and makes it fatter and will seal the leak and tighten the rivet. It is not...

I have had great luck patching hole in aluminum boats with Marine Tex epoxy. I used it for corrosion that made pin holes, a 12 gauge sized hole in the bottom of a john boat resulting from an exigent circumstance caused by a four foot cottonmouth that dropped in to visit me on Back Bay Virginia...

Well it appears that one of the missing duck hunters have been recovered today. His body washed up in Isle of Wight County. While his body has not been positively identified the local television station stated that it is believed to be one of the missing men. It has been about 7 weeks since they...

I have had some great meals but the one that I cannot forget was the worst one. I was in college and had a 13 year old brother John that always begged to tag along on duck hunts. My hunting partner and I decided to go bar hopping the night before a duck hunt. We did not really have room to take...

I hunted an area with a pretty nuisance resident Canada goose problem in Goochland Co. VA. About 200 or so of these delinquent geese were trapped by the Federal Dept. of Agriculture. A USDA leg band, a USFWS leg band and a collar were put on them and they were transported to Pennsylvania and...

JC It sounds like it was a great time getting that first Black Duck. And getting a band too , good for you. Its funny what stands out in a man's life. Thanks for sharing I was not sure I was not in trouble when it happened. I was a self-taught duck hunter and totally inexperienced and did...

I also shot a black duck as my first duck in Virginia. And with a Fox Model B from an inner tube float. It was around 1971 and the duck had a band on its leg. I was on a small lake off the Lynnhaven River in VA Beach.

My first new truck was an 85Toyota truck. I paid about 6 grand with air conditioning for it as I recall. I drove it for 25 years and it needed a clutch replacement, a water pump and the batteries replaced when they wore out. It was an awesome truck that I ended up giving to my son. I also...

I grew up in VA Beach and hunted and fished it a lot. Pier fishing can be good and you do not need a salt water license there as the pier license covers you. Sadly the Lynnhaven Pier just shut down. It was a local landmark and was owned by a friend of mine. There is a the VA Beach pier at...

A couple of duck hunters are lost in Virginia on the James River. Apparently they ended up in the water and the search has now become a recovery effort. The extreme cold and ice has made this extremely difficult and the tools normally used such as side-scan sonar is not possible due to the ice...