black swan

[Rich Newman]

Here's my idea for a layout boat. You wear white while hunting from it. I don't think the ducks would stand a chance.

 

[Jeff Frechette]

Another option LOL

 

[Brandon Yuchasz]

You know I actually think the idea has some merit.

 

[wis boz]

Jeff
with all those seats you could have a gun bearer and a chef in the back

 

[Rick L]

its going to be a long summer



LOL

 

[Jeff Reardon]

That'll work late season once the snow is on the ground and there are floating ice cakes. Early season you'll need a different paint scheme behind the decoy.

 

[Kim Ross]

Howabout painting it as a Super Magnum Canada Goose, analogous to those chair blinds for geese hunting that had a giant flip-up goose shell for cover? LOL

 

[Vince Pagliaroli]

Not a stretch of the imagination... Chad Tragakis wrote a good article - Caution & Ingenuity & Patience to, Early Methods of Upper Chesapeake Bay Duck Hunting, in the Sept/Oct 2014 issue of Decoy Magazine.

Page 14 shows a drawing of hunters using a "masked boat" aka Large SWAN. The drawing was published in American Agriculturist, Oct 1868. As the song sez "It's All Been Done".

 

[Steve Sanford]

Good morning, Jeff~

Great job of carving but Mute Swans have a big knob on their bills - and your paint is too shiny - it'll flare the birds for sure!

This is from Barber's Wild Fowl Decoys:

BTW: The call of the Mute Swan is the only waterfowl call I can imitate well.....

All the best,

SJS