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Tuesday, June 1. 2010

Five or six more months until duck season. A friend sent me these photos of a splendid, if surrealistically overblown, duck blind. It has to be in Arkansas.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hunting, Fishing, Dogs, Guns, etc., Our Essays at 18:25 | Comments (10) | Trackbacks (0)

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Duck blind? Dang - that looks like something out ofa post-Apocalypse B-movie like "Mad Max". :>)

I wonder if they have cable TV? :>)

#1 Tom Francis on 2010-06-01 18:44 (Reply)

That looks like the Arkansas equivalent of those Minnesota ice fishing shacks.

#2 John Long on 2010-06-01 19:46 (Reply)

It is in Arkansas. They're referred to as "hotel blinds" down here. There's a large one next to our club, but it's maybe half the size of that one.

And you're looking at it the wrong way: it's only 3 months until dove season and 3.5 months until September teal.

#3 LWS on 2010-06-01 20:32 (Reply)

I like the way you think LWS. 3 months until dove. Damn, I need to start getting ready.

#3.1 Capt. Koons on 2010-06-02 20:10 (Reply)

Pity the poor quacker that alights near that thing. Must sound like WW IX getting under way when Donald and Daisy stop by for a little rest and relaxation.

#4 Knucklehead (Link) on 2010-06-01 21:37 (Reply)

I just had this vision of a rolling broadside when the poor ducks landed near the blind. :>)

#4.1 Tom Francis on 2010-06-01 22:19 (Reply)

No kidding. Makes me feel sorry for the ducks.

We have seen the enemy and he is four freaking stories tall!

#5 B Moe on 2010-06-01 22:09 (Reply)

That reminds me of the last day of the season this past January. There were about 11 guns in two makeshift blinds approximately 30 feet apart. One duck flew from left to right across the front of both blinds and buzzed the dekes, maybe 30 feet out. By the time he made it halfway between the blinds, the first group had emptied their magazines. I didn't even shoot and found myself pulling for the duck. Three other guns in my blind, every one of em emptied their magazines and the duck (gadwall) skirted by unharmed. Had to just laugh and say congrats to the duck for having survived the season.

#5.1 LWS on 2010-06-03 23:45 (Reply)

Paddle faster; I hear banjos!

#6 jdgjtr on 2010-06-02 01:49 (Reply)

And why no pictures of the poor doggies who had to swim out and retrieve them birds? Nobody appreciates the real heroes of the waterfowl wars. All hail Fido!

Rob J

#7 inbredredneck on 2010-06-02 19:03 (Reply)

Actually it's in Louisiana... A fiend own this behemoth.

#8 weimgator on 2010-11-17 22:12 (Reply)

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Tuesday, June 1. 2010

A remarkable duck blind