Layout boats.

Greenhead33 · Postby **Greenhead33** » Sun Aug 05, 2001 3:04 pm

All I hunt around here is flooded rice and corn fields. We're thinking about not using our blind this year, and use layout boats instead. Do you think that'd be a good decision?

Jeff · Postby **Jeff** » Sun Aug 05, 2001 5:39 pm

Although I have never hunted out of one, I think portability is a big key to killing ducks on a consisten basis. I think coffin blinds of the like would be a great way to go if you aren't looking for complete comfort all the time.

Postby **GulfCoast** » Sun Aug 05, 2001 6:08 pm

I have hunted out of them in bean fields a good bit. They can be heck on your back. The main to remember in setting up is that for a right hander, it will be pretty hard to swing much back to your right from that sitting position, and vice versa for a left hander. So you want to make sure that you are all set up to cover all of the angles.

Postby **judge jb** » Sun Aug 05, 2001 7:34 pm

i have never, and i mean never, been able to shoot lying down... wheather with a layout boat or in corn stubble... but then again, it may get you close and personal with the ducks and geese....i also find it hard to make excuses laying flat on my back...{just ask the wife}...haha... if you are young and a hard worker, give it a try, just keep a blind with a cooker for me to watch out of...... try shootin some skeet while in the lay-down mode and see what you think... i love the boats for swamp huntin to get from place to place.... just my old opinion.....

judge jb

Unkljohn · Postby **Unkljohn** » Tue Aug 07, 2001 8:03 am

You can have some incredible shooting out of a layout boat!!! You can really disappear right in the middle of a rice field, and have a super hunt, or you can fall asleep and have the ducks land all over you and not kill any. Voice of experience here! [img]images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img]
JT

Capt Jeff · Postby **Capt Jeff** » Tue Aug 07, 2001 7:41 pm

Greenhead,

Try an Aquapod, you'll love'em.
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CJ
FCOA

Model12 · Postby **Model12** » Tue Aug 07, 2001 11:41 pm

I heard about a guy that, while trying to solve the "shoot to the right" problem GC talked about, installed a short swivel seat in the boat, (no back, just a seat). Problem was he didn't have it held in place, it was just sitting there. While spinning to the right to shoot, the seat shot out from under him and he knocked himself out when his head hit the side of the boat. The gun falls in the boat, goes off between his feet, and kills his dog. Now that's a bad day....

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