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I am looking for information buying/building a sunken duck blind. Would like it to be long enough for 4-6 hunters. Does anyone know of a person that builds sunken blinds???

Thanks for any help.

Do you mean a pit? Sink boxes are banned by the feds.

GC- what do you mean by a "sinkbox"? And why would they be band?

Ditto, To SBE's question!!!

Never heard of a "SINKBOX"!

Whats the diff. ?

If you ever make it over towards Monroe, Lousiana, there are some companies that make pits.

Sink boxes float in the water with just the top sticking out' and the rest under water I believe.

My mistake in wording. I am interested in a pit blind. My parents live just north of Monroe. Do you have names/number of the companies???

Thanks

A sink box is a device or means of concealment that affords the hunter concealment below the surface of the water.

This does not include Pit blinds dug into a field that is then flooded but rather a blind weighted and anchored in water so that you stay dry while your body is concealed below the water surface.

I am not sure if I made that clear or not?

Some states allow blinds to be build in tide flats that are almost sink boxes. They have canvas curtains that are raised as the waterlevel rises but the blind it self is built on the tide flat.

I guess the easiest way to say it is that you can not build a watertight floating blind and then partaialy submerg it so that you stay dry but are concealed, even for the most part, below the surface of the water.

M.B.

Thanks M. B.
That is what I thought, just wasn't going to put my foot in my mouth. Sure would be a heck of a way to knock the wind out of those wings.

Sink boxes were used alot back in the day by the market gunners. I believe they outlawed them due to the risk of hunting out of one. You would have to dropped off at one by a boat and then the boat would leave you out there hunting. It was a great way to hunt ducks back then. Just very dangerous. I could be wrong......but thats the info I remember reading about them.

Try Charlie Darden, a farmer that lives in Cary, Ms. He builds them himself to your specs; builds an excellent pit and at reasonable price. Home: 662-873-6849. He also installs them if not too far from Cary.

At what point does a coffin or layout boat become a sink box? When more of it is under the water than is above? What was the reason they were outlawed ? Too much of advantage or dangerous for drowning hunters? Seems like the pit is just a sink box that is rigid in the ground.

Sink box blinds were weighted to partially sink the box or blind to almost water level. Some of the most sought after commercially made antique decoys on the east coast are the cast iron decoys used for this purpose. They used "wings" out to each side of the blind to reduce the wave action from the typically coastal water environment. They were highly effective and that had a great deal to do with them being banned MANY years ago.
I have hunted from a curtain blind (attached to bottom w/canvas accordian-like skirt that raises and lowers with the tide) and it was AWESOME. I would love to combine a curtain blind with the number of ducks that use the Mississippi Flyway for a few seasons. the INJ

i have 5 pits built by cleveland hydrolics. they are good heavy quality and will last. also have rolling tops with rain gutters, which makes it nice on nasty days. talk to jeff sherwood.

What is the difference between a sink box and the floating pit blind described on our new sponsor "three rivers hunting club's" web site

They described it as a pit with pontoons that moves up and down with the water level.

Just curious,

the doc