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Nice! What kind of boat is that? Duralumin Ducker, maybe? Built from surplus aircraft aluminum for a while after WW-2. Both Lund and Alumacraft made them...Geo
Last edited by Geo. Newbern; 01/29/20 05:04 PM. Reason: added final sentence
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Alumacraft Ducker. 64 lbs and slides over cattails and bulrushes like a dream and floats in 4" of water. See recent thread on Photobucket.
Tundras usually run 16-18 lbs. Meat is far better than any goose.
Much harder to bag one around here these days as our lakes got too deep and destroyed their traditional food supply....tubers of sago pondweed. Easy to kill because of that long neck. Just one pellet there is all it takes. I use 1's to increase the odds. Very easy to decoy. Do not try to pluck!
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So, how do you dress one, Hal? Breast it out? SRH
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Pic of Tundra Swans in late Oct. 
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Looks like Iowa prairie potholes, but ours would have Trumpeters. Last fall, on a wetland maybe a little bit smaller than the one in Hal's photo and there were 50 Trumpeters on it. I looked them up and they can run 30 lbs. A turkey (big turkey) on the wing I guess.
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Hal, can you get a retriever in and out of one of those boats easily?
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....Easy to kill because of that long neck. Just one pellet there is all it takes. I use 1's to increase the odds. Very easy to decoy.... Boy, don't I wish. I've been able to hunt them three times in a permit zone. One hunt shut down with an overnight hard freeze. The other two times, I peppered a couple really nice ones and they lumbered off looking like they were just fine. On of the neatest field pictures in my mind was watching a really big raft of mixed waterfowl getting slowly pushed by the wind. A buddy and I gave up regular shots and waited a good couple of hours while the pile was pushed towards our shore. They did start getting skittish, so I took a swat at a swan picking up off the water at about thirty fiveish maybe forty yards, nuth'in. So, I switched to a Mallard and got him before everything skooted out. I haven't put in for a tag for a few season, but maybe next fall.
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I skin them Stan, leaving on the legs, but removing the wings. Would really like to bag a Trumpeter. A few have moved in to eastern ND from MN where they are released to help reduce numbers of giant Canadas. Because the Ducker is so stable, (a big person can sit on the gunnel and it won't flip) dogs are easily broght in by grabbing their collar. I have not built a ramp, but might need to now that I am using a svelte 103 lb GWP Griffon type that brings a ton of water with him. I really miss my Viszlas for boat hunting. 
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I've seen some big Griff, but NOTHING close to 103# They aren't really supposed to be even as big as a lab or a golden as I understand it. But cool dogs they are. Crazy eyes they have.
I'm thinking I need a duck boat for retirement.
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I went today with the MuttPak. Floyd and his daughter went fishing. I went deeper into the woods than we went Tuesday and found three birds. Only got two good points and missed the shots. Decided to hit the Brier Patch and get as Marellus Wallace said, "medieval" with the birds and geared up with my industrial grade brier gear. To mix movie quotes, the woodcock met "medieval" by going to the "mattresses" in the briers with me. In the Brier Patch, the dogs found 5 birds with solid points and I could only connect with one that I could get to. See Book of Woodcock Hunter's Lousy Excuses, chapter 5, on why I either missed or failed to shoot. I had initially thought about today being the season's end for me. I am considering going in the rain tomorrow as early December, 2020, is a little too far off to chase these birds when I can go tomorrow. 
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