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John Hickerson
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Posted: Tue Jan 11th, 2005 08:10 pm |
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| Roger asked for a shot of my self made box. Attached Image (viewed 431 times):
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Destry Hoffard
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Posted: Tue Jan 11th, 2005 09:00 pm |
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I'm interested to see myself Hick but the whole thing won't come up on my end. I get about a half inch of the bottom and that's it.
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Posted: Tue Jan 11th, 2005 09:31 pm |
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Ditto here.
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Posted: Tue Jan 11th, 2005 10:24 pm |
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Hick,
You may want to double check the size of your image file.
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Posted: Tue Jan 11th, 2005 11:51 pm |
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Hick,
Might also try saving the image to file as a (jpg) rather than a (BMP)...
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Posted: Wed Jan 12th, 2005 12:21 am |
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| Hick is your gun box black all over cause that is whats comming up on my screen. My guess is you will try again as we are all anxious to see anything hooked onto or about guns. Thanks for remembering the gun box request. RogerCoger
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Posted: Wed Jan 12th, 2005 06:10 pm |
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| It looks like the horizon on one of Saturn's moons...
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John Hickerson
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Posted: Wed Jan 12th, 2005 09:56 pm |
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Gentelmen,
I am trying to cut it back but having trouble. My computer savy is limited. I'll keep trying. The box is a mahogany color. It has Brass hardware, Lock, hinges and corners and a leather top handle. Works for me.
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Posted: Thu Jan 13th, 2005 03:04 am |
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Hick,
If you email the picture to me (gregschr@sprynet.com) I can try and get it in shape for the BBS.
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Posted: Fri Jan 14th, 2005 01:48 am |
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Sure was a lot of trouble for an old box.
I cut back my pictures to a 4x6 inch size but it still said it was too large. Thank for your efforts Greg.
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Posted: Fri Jan 14th, 2005 04:53 am |
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Dammit Hick I wanna see this thing too. Send the pic to Greg so he can get in on the thread.
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Posted: Fri Jan 14th, 2005 01:56 pm |
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Destry,
I have added the picture as an inline to Hicks original post.
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Posted: Fri Jan 14th, 2005 03:10 pm |
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Now thats a nice looking shooting box!
Great job Hick!
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Posted: Fri Jan 14th, 2005 04:28 pm |
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Hick, that is a very nice gunning box and is it water tite? Do you carry it out to the various duck shooting sites. My gunning box if you can call one of those cardboard fruit and vegetable peck baskets a gunning box does the job for me. Seems I am having an affair with cardboard ie O'l Clunker. I like the price of secondhand cardboard.
If I had a box that nice I would leave it in the car and hope I had not over looked taking everything I want to have with me in the blind.
Thanks RogerCoger
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Posted: Fri Jan 14th, 2005 07:03 pm |
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Pretty slick Hick, now you just need to give us a shot of the interior so we can see all your secret weapons. *wink*
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Posted: Fri Jan 14th, 2005 08:24 pm |
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Destry,
My digital camera really won't give a clear enough picture to show the inside. My inspiration for my gunning box was an effort to reproduce one of those old timey boxes that used to be advertised in magazines where the ends extended upward and held your shotgun. I made on of those but I made it of three quarter inch pine. It was stained a walnut color and came out very well but was too heavy and also had the disadvantage that you couldn't sit on it and that while running my duck boat I did't trust it to hold my uncased Parker. I suppose the old timers with their Winchester pumps did't worry about scratching them. In some blinds if you sat down you couldn'tsee anything so I needed one I could sit on and see without standing up all day. I am not sure if it is water tight. In my blind I sit it on a folding table in the center front where it is readily handy. I also have a piece of canvas tacked to the front of the blind that I can pull up and hook so my lap won't get wet.
In a previous post I think I described the interrior but here it is again. It is divided into three sections, two smaller one on the ends and a larer one in the center. The left holds a box of twelve gauge shells, A duck and widgeon calls, a leatherman tool, a mini first aid kit and a small bottle that holds matches, a piece of foil that could be use to to boil water or cook on. I keep a can of vienna sausages, and a can chunky vegetable beef soup in my boat just in case.
The middle compartment has a plastic tv tray on the bottom and I use a flat frozen ice pack on which I sit a coke and a beer. A sandwich sits in a plastic covered bowl plus a Snicker bar.
The other end hold binoculars, a transistor radio and a cell phone. So I think I am pretty well equipped.
Hick
I am going to attatch a poor picture but I am not hopeful it will go through.
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Posted: Fri Jan 14th, 2005 08:56 pm |
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Sounds like your shooting box is similar to my gunning bag. A buddy of mine told me once he loved looking through it because of all the junk I keep thrown in there.
Coffee thermos, duck and goose calls, ball of string for tying up dead ducks, straight knife. leatherman tool, game shears, plastic bags, camera, oil rag and bottle, leather strap for geese, raincoat, whiskey flask, first aid kit, bottle of tums for after those duck blind breakfasts, plastic bag with all my various licenses and permits, whatever I've got for lunch, and various other crap that's gotten in there over the years.
It's heavy and only good for boat or blind hunting because you don't want to carry it far but it's a lifesaver when you need something far from dry land.
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Posted: Sat Jan 15th, 2005 04:25 am |
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Hick and Destry, with a deep respect for the two of you and your duck hunting knowledge I must point out that neither one of you two gentlemen mentioned a very necessary component in a gunning box/bag, toilet paper kept in its own plastic waterproof container.
Hick your box is far more complex in that it comtains way more items than I ever imagined and you can also use it to sit on. Sounds very functional.
Destry I have never peeked into your gunning bag but have seen some of the items you haul out when it is time to clean squirrels and perform various other hunter chores in the field. Humm and a flask that I will look for on the next hunt.
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Jeff Mulliken
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Posted: Sat Jan 15th, 2005 11:14 am |
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Your box sure makes my camo blind bag look like crud....But I have a secret weapon in mine and it's the only thing in my kit that predates my Parkers,
I'm carrying a small Svea mountaineering stove in mine, it's solid brass, has been made since about 1880, weighs 19 oz, puts out 4700 btu's and heats up a quart of clam chowder to serving temp in about 7 min's.
AND nothing attracts ducks to your decoys faster than bubbling clam chowder, except maybe going to the bathroom, or wading out to rearrange your decoys, or taking a nap...
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John Hickerson
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Posted: Sat Jan 15th, 2005 03:25 pm |
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Roger,
Not to worry. I carry a roll in a waterproof box in my duck boat. I might mention that my best friend, a veteran of the korean unpleasantness always carried some in his hats. Even in his dress hat. Be prepared.
Back in Missouri where we had to walk a half mile to the boats from the Club house and planned to be hunting all day we had coaloil stoves in the blinds. Also a piece of canvas to pull up and hook so it kept the warmth of the stove inside the blind.
The first five years I hunted out in Mo. there wasn't a single outboard motor on the whole three mile log lake. We rowed from the landing to the blinds. Actually hunting was better in those days because the motors didn't scare the roosting ducks off the lake. When members finally got motors we dug a small ditch an when there was enough water we could keep the boats at the club house.
I would be duck hunting today but we have twenty to thirty five mile Norteast wind that I would have to buck to go the mile and a quarter to my blind.
Hick
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