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Dave, if you have anymore of the expanded metal, you could put another shelf in right above your chip pan. The heat and smoke rising up around the water pan will help carry the steam up. You could use a fairly shallow pan, something along the lines of a pie pan for instance. The bigger the...

Blasphemy! Just kidding Brad, but I treat my mallard breasts like the finest beef tenderloin. A little fresh ground black pepper, a little garlic salt, and a little onion salt, grilled medium rare. I do find goose breasts benefit from brining before smoking. Get the meat to about 160-170...

Very cool Dave! Are you going to run a water pan it it as well?

Chuck, that might be one of the smartest statements I've ever read on the Internet!

That's all I've used for as long as I can remember. I've run 10s of thousands of rounds through my 1100s and 11-87s and Breakfree CLP has always given me excellent results.

That's probably a good idea. I don't know about other folks, but I never store my guns with the action open. At the end of a day of hunting, right before I case my gun, I close the bolt and pull the trigger (with the gun empty of course, and pointed in a safe direction regardless) to take the...

Beautiful bird!!! I would love to see your "tutorial" stuff...

Those of you with jamming issues or cycling issues, especially when cold; have you taken the stock off and cleaned the action spring and action tube? When those get gunked up and the tube gets a bunch of crud in it, it will cause those types of malfunctions.

Josh, think in terms of shape. If you used a cone as a plug, it would be fairly easy to get the molded cone off the plug. If you used an hourglass shaped plug, you wouldn't get the molded part off the plug in one piece. That's the simplest analogy I can come up with.

That should be pretty easy...lol. A few years back Jeff Coats went into the pool with his waders on. There were pictures floating around the Internet of that. I'm hoping to get up there that weekend.

As pictured. Like new. This is the Thompson/Center Bone Collector Edition with the Bushnell 3-9x40 Trophy XLT riflescope. The top-of-the-line rifle boasts all the high-performance features of the original Triumph, and it's upgraded with the vibration-dampening FlexTech™ composite stock that...

Very nice story and photos. Those black duck dekes are pretty darn nice!!!

Agreed.

At least you haven't lost your sense of humor through the beatings...lol. In reading through Eric's post, and sorting through the things that you have said, I would tend to agree that in spirit we all put the safety of our dogs first. Beyond that, I think a lot of the disagreement may come...

Based on the dimensions, I'd say Pete nailed it; Devlin Mallard. Congrats!

First of all, I will address some of the other posts regarding a "first time experience". I too agree Carl may have ended up with a bad experience and a gun/water/boat/hunting shy dog. I'd be counting my blessings that everything turned out well. Scott, do you cease to train once duck...

Scott, I'm sensing a little backpedaling from "never, ever train your dog in cold water." Would it be fair to say you do train in cold water, but are careful about the dog's exposure and hypothermia?

Carl, I think the discussion and debate of the subject at hand is healthy. When debate turns to personal attacks is when it becomes "unhealthy". As for what you did to your pup, you should probably be drawn and quartered for that, then your remains burned at the stake...

Scott, how about direct, no bullshit replies to two direct, no bullshit questions: Would you rather "surprise" the dog by making his first experience into cold water an actual hunting retrieve? What will you do if the dog says F**K YOU and refuses?

Would you rather "surprise" the dog by making his first experience into cold water an actual hunting retrieve? What will you do if the dog says F**K YOU and refuses?