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We've all duck hunted in submerged pit blinds... but are they legal?

Posted on 11/20/13 at 4:24 pm
Posted by Howard Juneau
Cocodrie, LA
Member since Nov 2007
2218 posts
Posted on 11/20/13 at 4:24 pm
Take a look at what i've highlighted below... What's the difference in a pitblind and sinkbox?

WHAT HUNTING METHODS ARE ILLEGAL?

No persons shall take migratory game birds:

• With a trap, snare, net, rifle, pistol, swivel gun, shotgun larger than 10 gauge, punt
gun, battery gun, machine gun, fish hook, poison, drug, explosive, or stupefying
substance;

• With a shotgun of any description capable of holding more than three shells, unless
it is plugged with a one-piece filler, incapable of removal without disassembling the gun, so its total capacity does not exceed three shells. This restriction does not apply during dates States haves selected under the Conservation Order for light geese (i.e. greater and lesser snow and Ross’s geese) or those selected for the control of resident Canada geese.

• From or by means, aid, or use of a sinkbox or any other type of low floating device, having a depression affording the hunter a means of concealment beneath the surface of the water;

• From or by means, aid, or use of any motor vehicle, motor-driven land conveyance, or aircraft of any kind, except that paraplegics and persons missing one or both legs may take from any stationary motor vehicle or stationary motor-driven land convey- ance;

Posted by Rod Farva
Spurbury, Vermont
Member since Sep 2012
1136 posts
Posted on 11/20/13 at 4:27 pm to
quote:

We've


Speak for yourself
Posted by choupiquesushi
yaton rouge
Member since Jun 2006
30434 posts
Posted on 11/20/13 at 4:28 pm to
a sunken pit blind.. is generally not below the water line...

sink boxes aren't illegal only because of their effectiveness... but because.... like their name says... you can sink them..

the tops of nearly every pit I have seen have been above the surface of the water....
Posted by xenon16
Metry Brah
Member since Sep 2008
3528 posts
Posted on 11/20/13 at 4:28 pm to
Any pit blinds I've hunted have been on some type of levee system and I wasn't below the surface of the water
Posted by Vlad
North AL
Member since May 2012
2605 posts
Posted on 11/20/13 at 4:30 pm to
A pit is buried in the dirt. The old sink boxes were floating in open water and anchored.
Posted by wickowick
Head of Island
Member since Dec 2006
45793 posts
Posted on 11/20/13 at 4:34 pm to
Posted by stevengtiger
Member since Jul 2013
2778 posts
Posted on 11/20/13 at 4:37 pm to
You could not pay me to hunt out of that thing.

Also, looks like the guy on the left is goose hunting with a youth model.
Posted by wickowick
Head of Island
Member since Dec 2006
45793 posts
Posted on 11/20/13 at 4:39 pm to
How quick can that thing fill with water?
Posted by gorillacoco
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2009
5318 posts
Posted on 11/20/13 at 4:40 pm to
that is awesome.
Posted by Thunder Tiger
Member since Sep 2011
2608 posts
Posted on 11/20/13 at 4:51 pm to
Unless they look like Wick's pic - they're legal.
Posted by LouisianaChessie
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since May 2010
2582 posts
Posted on 11/20/13 at 5:25 pm to
That thing is one fisherman away from being real cold
Posted by FloridianDog
Member since May 2013
357 posts
Posted on 11/20/13 at 5:36 pm to
frick that thing
Posted by jorconalx
alexandria
Member since Aug 2011
8585 posts
Posted on 11/20/13 at 6:32 pm to
quote:

floating


key word
Posted by Leadhead
Member since Jan 2013
887 posts
Posted on 11/20/13 at 6:43 pm to
quote:

use of a sinkbox or any other type of low floating device


The key phrase here is "other floating device". Based on this language, the reg considers a sink box to be a floating device and the reg prohibits the taking of migratory game birds from sunken floating devices. A pit does not fit into this category of prohibited blinds because a pit blind does not float.
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