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Good stuff. That Eakins picture seems familiar to me, but I don't recall seeing it since I picked up a shotgun ~20 years ago. I think I might have seen it at Boston Museum Of Fine Arts in a big travelling "American Paintings" show I went to on a high school field trip. I know I saw a bunch...

Looks like I need to buy a New Brunswick license and spend a few weekends across the border to even things up! ;)

I suspect you are correct. But I worry about accepting a shifting baseline as "normal".

My other AHM question is one I know nothing about--and entirely hypothetical for us in Maine as I don't know anyone who has ever shot more than one pintail in a day. I've shot 2 in the last 15 years--we just don't see them. But I am seeing a lot of chatter, including social media posts today...

I agree with you both, and thought my OP made that clear. I don't begrudge Canada a higher bag limit than we get in the US. And like Steve, I am thrilled with the current 2 bird limit for blacks. What I question is the conclusion that based on evaluation of habitat conditions and populations...

So having looked only at the Ex. Summary, this paragraph caught my eye, as someone who for whom black ducks are the majority of what I see once the teal and woodies mostly head south: "For black ducks, the optimal country-specific regulatory strategies for the 2026 hunting season were...

Not sure why this was not out yesterday when social media lit up with prelim numbers, but it was in my feed tonight after supper. Happy reading...

I don't shoot 28 ga, but my goto partridge, woodcock and rail gun is a Franchi Instinct SL in 20. Very light and quick, easy to carry. I'd probably want something heavier for ducks.

Voice of experience?

And FWIW, my remote pond version--uglified with plastic gunwales and decks from Old Town--sports a carrying yoke on the factory-original center thwart made of old Ensolite sleeping pad strips wrapped in camo duct tape. I jury-rigged it from stuff that was in the truck when I carried the canoe...

Original specs--and the very handsome Duck Hunter Version when it first came out--are here: https://media.pelicaninternational.com/m/918882b44ff819f/original/2006-Mad-River-Catalog.pdf Oh for the days when catalogs for mass produced canoes had more info on side profile, cross-section and...

I'm dead center in the middle of what Edward Tappan Adney and Howard Chappelle called the epicenter for traditional bark canoes in North America. If this book is not on your shelves, you should find a copy. https://www.amazon.com/Bark-Canoes-Boats-North-America/dp/1628737921 Central Maine was...

Those hats look fantastic.

33 degrees and fog or drizzle or light snow is my favorite duck hunting weather. Better with some wind to drive the wet a bit! It's also pretty much average for the coast in December, and what we get on cold days in November/warm days in January.

I hear you. But many of my marsh spots let me set up on the high marsh, and I want to be light and mobile. I use my sculler or a canoe as a blind when I might be floating. Hiding the canoe in a narrow salt marsh creek works great on the incoming tide. I have a little backboard I can set...

30's? That's still t-shirt and a sweater weather, if you've got a windproof layer over the top. ;) At teens even a northern and well insulated guy like me needs something with down or a quilted synthetic--or so many wool or fleece layers that they restrict movement. If you want to go...

Thanks to everyone so far. The Avery Power Hunter is definitely near the top of what I've looked at so far. Seems to be a couple of inches wider than some similar models (30" vs. 28"), but also a little lower. (Good for hiding, bad for Sasquatch feet.) Was that maybe this model...

Filson, Otterwax, Barbour ($$$$$), and Fjallraven all have wax/oil treatments for canvas clothes. I think most are beeswax cut with a bit of oil.

After many years of flaring wary black ducks in the late season, I'm considering a layout blind. I mostly hunt from shore using natural cover and scavenged brush to make a "blind". It works well in the early season when ducks are mostly inland in areas with good tree cover and trees a leafed...

Hard for me to think about hunting in your conditions. Up here, I can be pretty comfortable in all wool with a waterproof top layer down to the mid-20's, but I run pretty warm. Colder than that, and I need a layer of down or synthetic over the top. Multiple layers are the key. For wool...