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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 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;
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 on 11/20/13 at 4:27 pm to Howard Juneau
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We've
Speak for yourself
Posted on 11/20/13 at 4:28 pm to Howard Juneau
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....
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 on 11/20/13 at 4:28 pm to Rod Farva
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 on 11/20/13 at 4:30 pm to Howard Juneau
A pit is buried in the dirt. The old sink boxes were floating in open water and anchored.
Posted on 11/20/13 at 4:37 pm to wickowick
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.
Also, looks like the guy on the left is goose hunting with a youth model.
Posted on 11/20/13 at 4:39 pm to stevengtiger
How quick can that thing fill with water?
Posted on 11/20/13 at 4:51 pm to Howard Juneau
Unless they look like Wick's pic - they're legal.
Posted on 11/20/13 at 5:25 pm to wickowick
That thing is one fisherman away from being real cold
Posted on 11/20/13 at 6:32 pm to Howard Juneau
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floating
key word
Posted on 11/20/13 at 6:43 pm to Howard Juneau
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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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