Rob Taylor
New member
Hi everybody
My name is Rob Taylor, I am known on some of the hunting forums as Skeet in NZ. Yes I am in New Zealand. Our way of hunting is somewhat different to your way of hunting. We shoot our ducks from mainly a fixed based stand which we call a MaiMai (what you call a blind) these are mainly in the water and can stand out like a soar thumb. So we do have to camo them up with vegeatation.
I am looking at changing the way I hunt and are building a layout style boat. I have done a lot of searching on the internet and have read on post of the Refuge and but I have found myself coming here to get knowledge on the boat blinds.
I purchased a set of plans of the The Kara Hummer from Rob Leonard and also have been looking at the hybrid rubber. Now having the plans for the Kara I have layed them out side by side and find a 14" against a 10" there is a lot of difference as the 14" will need to have a trailer but the 10" would go on top of my decoy trailer.
Is there anyone on this site that may have just built a rubber? As I am now thinking the smaller option would be better as I currently don't have a gun dog trained or in training at the moment.
I am thinking of building it out of red cedar as I am a joiner cabinet maker by trade. I know when I talked to Rob about the cedar he was concerned about knots. But the cedar I will be using has no knots in it. I am thinking of the weight facter (no I am not interested in building a foamer).
So mainly this was meant to be an introduction to you all about myself. And this is what I am looking at doing over the summer months here hopefully having it all ready for the May 2007 duck season when it starts for me again.
I start back again hunting Canada Geese in Febuary as the crops will be ready for them to start becoming a nusiance to the farmers at that time.
Rob
My name is Rob Taylor, I am known on some of the hunting forums as Skeet in NZ. Yes I am in New Zealand. Our way of hunting is somewhat different to your way of hunting. We shoot our ducks from mainly a fixed based stand which we call a MaiMai (what you call a blind) these are mainly in the water and can stand out like a soar thumb. So we do have to camo them up with vegeatation.
I am looking at changing the way I hunt and are building a layout style boat. I have done a lot of searching on the internet and have read on post of the Refuge and but I have found myself coming here to get knowledge on the boat blinds.
I purchased a set of plans of the The Kara Hummer from Rob Leonard and also have been looking at the hybrid rubber. Now having the plans for the Kara I have layed them out side by side and find a 14" against a 10" there is a lot of difference as the 14" will need to have a trailer but the 10" would go on top of my decoy trailer.
Is there anyone on this site that may have just built a rubber? As I am now thinking the smaller option would be better as I currently don't have a gun dog trained or in training at the moment.
I am thinking of building it out of red cedar as I am a joiner cabinet maker by trade. I know when I talked to Rob about the cedar he was concerned about knots. But the cedar I will be using has no knots in it. I am thinking of the weight facter (no I am not interested in building a foamer).
So mainly this was meant to be an introduction to you all about myself. And this is what I am looking at doing over the summer months here hopefully having it all ready for the May 2007 duck season when it starts for me again.
I start back again hunting Canada Geese in Febuary as the crops will be ready for them to start becoming a nusiance to the farmers at that time.
Rob
