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Looks like all the big stuff has been covered. If you decide to do Havre de Grace, try to make an evening out of it. You can visit the decoy museum, walk the promenade around to the lighthouse, and have dinner on the water (both the Tidewater Inn and MacGregors are nice....and both have...

Sorry...should have been more clear. Different call. Now i get to buy one of yours! I'll be in touch...

Steve, that box looks great. BTW, love the acrylic friction call that I got from you for my dad last Christmas...was thinking how I wanted one for myself, but couldn't justify buying another call while I had a perfectly good one in my vest. Lucky for me, i forgot the key to one of the gates...

Tom, Just got back from Charles Jobes' shop...they're in high gear cranking out blocks for the Havre de Grace show coming up in a few weeks. He is confident that your decoy is one of his dad's....probably mid-70's based on the paint and the fact that the neck isn't puttied (he didn't start...

will do. i'll try to get over there Friday.

Tom, Really looks like Capt. Harry's. When i first saw it i did think Vincenti, but as someone else pointed out, the paint is not clean enough for Pat (although i am not a carver and I definitely don't have the definitive eye). If you like, i can take a picture over to Charles Jobes and see...

Hey Cas...you saw you're getting one over in Christiana, right? Will cut my drive to Cabelas in half (I go to Hamburg as well)! http://www.cabelas.com/custserv/custserv.jsp?pageName=christiana Frank

A resourse officer here in MD is a police officer who's full-time duty station is a school (or set of schools). Where I taught, it was a county sheriff who covered a high school, its middle school, and their feeder elementary school. He would split days at each school ( all within a half mile...

John, I wanted to laugh, but after making a 7.5 mile run in that fog Saturday morning myself, I'm feeling much more sober about having guys like that out there. I was white-knuckled for 20 minutes wondering what was sitting out there in front of me...but I'll admit that is never crossed my mind...

Big ducks have been fairly light, but are starting to show up. Starting to see some groups of divers trading up and down the bay. We are loaded with geese right now (been pouring in for the last week of so), but have been targeting ducks on the creeks and tidal marshes along the bay. May have...

67 here. drove home with window down yesterday. getting depressed.

Tom, My dad has 3 of them (20, 16, and 12). They were originally all mod/full, and we shoot steel out of them all the time. (But we did put screw-ins in the 12-gauge). I shot that 12-gauge version with steel for 10 years before we did the work on it though. (When I had sufficiently...

Still here. Actually, never got too bad. Still lots of traffic lights out, but most of my family still has power and the flooding has been minimal. Drove to my office at the head of the Bush River (high tide is just hitting) and the water level is still several feet below the parking lots...

Chuck...that's pretty funny. And there's no telling if I'm right about the barrel length. You spend enough time telling people that something is longer than it really is, and eventually you start to believe it!

Mike, My uncle is a gunsmith and I'll see him this weekend for the early muzzleloader season in Maryland. He can often look these guns up to get an idea of the manufacture process, and thus the probable safety of using it. I'll take your info with me and see what he says... BTW, my...

Neal, My lab has hunted over a v-board spread many times. He has never tried to go through the frames and always swims around them. I did a little training in the yard early on using the v-boards and he got to see how they are arranged. (I doubt that had anything to do with his success...

Silos on the v-board frames are definitely smaller than the stick-ups to hide behind...maybe 28" tip to stern (I think I got 8 out of a sheet of plywood). With the stick-ups, the height seems to be the biggest thing...high enough to get behind, but low enough to not stand out. Width doesn's...

The biggest thing we find with booting is keeping the profile as low to the water as possible. In fact, a lot of the guys who do it won't use waders, but invest in the dry suits (like you saw Huntley in on that episode of DU TV) because you can't get low enough to the water in waders. I...

Chuck, I always put way too much thought in. In fact, that's my MO: Copious amounts of over-engineering paired with the perfect proportion of zero artistic talent. Funny you mention the angle of the gun...that was the one thing I couldn't get past when building these. I spent more time...

For what it's worth, here are a couple shots of our stick-ups in action. I took a little different approach and welded a frame together that incorporates the gun rack. The silhouette is mounted to the frame so everything is individually replaceable (we beat our stuff up...really bad). I welded a...