[QUOTE=Kurt Densmore;6496]The old girl also makes for a quick handling diver gun.... I got lucky and knocked down a pair of redheads crossing at about 40 yards. Both cripples and the tender had to chase them around a little. Last weeks hunting was slower than I like. Only being able to shoot two redhead and two scaup the day can be over in a hurry if the birds move. Not much wind and pressured birds doesn't help. It is a damascus bbl DHE with Parker SST build in about 1926, 28" bbls and under 7lbs.
Busick design layout boat I built circa 2002, Mixture of EPS and Urethane diver decoys I made from molds that are copies of the sought after Restle magnum diver out of Ohio. Nice looking rig Kurt-is your boat built with a laid-up fiberglas over a spruce frame? What are dims. aprox.? What do you use for a tender boat then? It's been many years since I had a layout boat and 300 bluebill dekes (shared with a now gone hunting partner) back when I belonged to the MDHA and we had the "point system" in MI- scaups (both greater and lesser) were ten points each--
FYI-and any other diver duck hunters in the PGCA- when I visited Brad Bachelder last week- he mentioned he has about 200 Flambeau weighted keel diver decoys (mainly scaups- both sexes) for sale at aprox. $2.00 each- he had one of them on display in his shop. Like me, years ago he hunted divers big time- our area lakes were "treated" for weed growth- no more divers-
Contact Brad at Bachelder Master Gunmakers- phone 616- 459-3636 or e-mail him at
bachelderfirearm@aol.com