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About Us
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My hunting partner
and I are 3rd generation duck hunters with over 80 years of combined
duck hunting experience. Both of our grandfathers were old-time market
hunters who lived well into their 90's. With the invent of gaming laws
such as seasons and bag limits, our fathers were more inline with
today's duck hunter than the past market hunters . Yet the knowledge
that those two previous generations passed on to us is priceless.
Hunting Tales
How many of today's hunters will be able to tell their grand kids
stories of having killed over 300 mallards in a single day and have the
photos to prove it? How many of today's hunters have seen a shotgun with
an extension tube welded to the magazine to create an 11-shot automatic?
How many of today's hunters are privileged enough to have heard tales of
having to leave the blind and shake the water off of the live decoys
(English Callers) to keep them from drowning? Or about the time that an
alligator wrecked havoc in their live decoy spread? How about equipping
a duck boat with a hundred pound punt gun? These were the type of
stories that were passed on to us as we grew up in a duck hunter's
paradise.
Building Blinds
We have hunted in pits, tanks, boat blinds, barrel blinds, lay-out
boats, pipe blinds, pop-ups, even a blind made from pvc pipe. We have
hunted rivers, lakes, marsh, flooded timber, rice and bean fields. Once
we hunted a 1/2 acre pond next to Red River that wasn't really a pond at
all, but black plastic sheeting that had been rolled out over the ground
and then had water sprinkled over it.
One of the most important things that our grandfathers and fathers
taught us, was how to build a blind. A blind that not only fit the
surroundings that you hunted, but how to build it to last for literally
decades. (One of our tank blinds was built in 1974 and has been
floating the open water ever since. Its over 31 years old and
has never been out of the water! That same blind is the one
shown on our plans page.)
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