Derek Bendell
Active member
Haha, thanks guys. I really do like the tinfoil windows, organized shops, and tupperware foam block molds. The hunting part of this thread was a little slim in the first post so I'm gonna go up a notch with this one.
I like the old nose-art and custom Americana stuff from the past. Keeping it alive in a waterfowl way.
One morning a Tornado almost blew us out of our hunt area, but the skies cleared up for a semi-amazing shoot. Both guys got a nice bird or two after riding out to my hot spot in my personal duck boat. The Coot-Finker.(A little California "Big Daddy" Ed Roth inspired throwback design.)
We have some hunt areas down here called STAs an acronym for Stormwater Treatment Areas. If you like highly competitive, regulated, and restricted hunts with permits, parking spots, pigs, and possibility of a peppering you'll love to hunt em. I personally avoid the "Cursin Cubans" and "Southern-bearded-Skyblasters". That's not meant to insult a type of people or particular whisker-level. I'm thinking more of specific individuals who you shake your fist at when you see each other. A few members here can attest to some bad mosquitoes from time to time at these areas.
I'm sort of a "No-limits" kind of person. By that I mean I rarely shoot a limit. I enjoy going for style points, but I also like duck-kabobs & Whistling Duck legs..
The duck truck looks like it had some jumpers, a dry T-shirt, and a cordless drill under the back seat at the time of this hunt. All practical items in my opinion so I'm not at all embarrassed about that. I've since installed a couple fresh new batteries.(That's right 2 of em-7.3Diesel)
I know you guys can relate; while on vacation to the North Shore of Lake Superior with the Family I weaseled in a little waterfowl related activity. I brought along a chainsaw hoping that winter took out a big cedar along the highway I could get permission to cut up and keep. Jackpot! Thank you snow, carpenter ants, and butt-rot. Of course thanks to the landowner too. The way this one fell, it was a cake-walk cutting up and loading the SUV. Our luggage and views out the windows on the way home suffered dearly.
I also managed to find, and sneak fairly close to a trifecta of Blacks and a pair of Widgeon on their Spring Migration.
God's sense of humor in action was apparent when my neighbor pointed it out to me one day when he commented, "Of all the people on our street those ducks come to visit, it's the duck hunter". For a couple months over the last two years during Spring these Mottled Ducks come to my house and my Daughter likes to throw em bread. I don't know who else they're visiting but the like our place VS. the rest of the neighborhood and enjoy hanging around us. Even when we're not outside or home they stay. They weren't here before but I do believe they visit while the Hen is nesting or getting ready to lay eggs, ect. The drake has a little Mallard x Mottled duck in his lineage which is bad for our pure Mottled Ducks in FL so that irks me a little. If He flew past my hiding place while hunting it'd be lights out for Him. We are thankful they come and we enjoy having them as our buddies. They're pretty smart I think because we put out a pretty nice spread and scold our Cats, and Labrador if they try anything funny towards the ducks...
I like the old nose-art and custom Americana stuff from the past. Keeping it alive in a waterfowl way.
One morning a Tornado almost blew us out of our hunt area, but the skies cleared up for a semi-amazing shoot. Both guys got a nice bird or two after riding out to my hot spot in my personal duck boat. The Coot-Finker.(A little California "Big Daddy" Ed Roth inspired throwback design.)
We have some hunt areas down here called STAs an acronym for Stormwater Treatment Areas. If you like highly competitive, regulated, and restricted hunts with permits, parking spots, pigs, and possibility of a peppering you'll love to hunt em. I personally avoid the "Cursin Cubans" and "Southern-bearded-Skyblasters". That's not meant to insult a type of people or particular whisker-level. I'm thinking more of specific individuals who you shake your fist at when you see each other. A few members here can attest to some bad mosquitoes from time to time at these areas.
I'm sort of a "No-limits" kind of person. By that I mean I rarely shoot a limit. I enjoy going for style points, but I also like duck-kabobs & Whistling Duck legs..
The duck truck looks like it had some jumpers, a dry T-shirt, and a cordless drill under the back seat at the time of this hunt. All practical items in my opinion so I'm not at all embarrassed about that. I've since installed a couple fresh new batteries.(That's right 2 of em-7.3Diesel)
I know you guys can relate; while on vacation to the North Shore of Lake Superior with the Family I weaseled in a little waterfowl related activity. I brought along a chainsaw hoping that winter took out a big cedar along the highway I could get permission to cut up and keep. Jackpot! Thank you snow, carpenter ants, and butt-rot. Of course thanks to the landowner too. The way this one fell, it was a cake-walk cutting up and loading the SUV. Our luggage and views out the windows on the way home suffered dearly.
I also managed to find, and sneak fairly close to a trifecta of Blacks and a pair of Widgeon on their Spring Migration.
God's sense of humor in action was apparent when my neighbor pointed it out to me one day when he commented, "Of all the people on our street those ducks come to visit, it's the duck hunter". For a couple months over the last two years during Spring these Mottled Ducks come to my house and my Daughter likes to throw em bread. I don't know who else they're visiting but the like our place VS. the rest of the neighborhood and enjoy hanging around us. Even when we're not outside or home they stay. They weren't here before but I do believe they visit while the Hen is nesting or getting ready to lay eggs, ect. The drake has a little Mallard x Mottled duck in his lineage which is bad for our pure Mottled Ducks in FL so that irks me a little. If He flew past my hiding place while hunting it'd be lights out for Him. We are thankful they come and we enjoy having them as our buddies. They're pretty smart I think because we put out a pretty nice spread and scold our Cats, and Labrador if they try anything funny towards the ducks...
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