>Custom Duck and Turkey Calls - Eastern NC
Just noticed your footnote. When I was real young (about 60-65 years ago) my dad and older brothers used to drive down to coastal North Carolina to go duck hunting. I was just a young toddler, so I never went. Back then the manner of hunting made use of a sunken box that hunters would sit in. The box was sunken in one of the sounds (Albemarle, I guess) where the top edge of the box rested about 3-4 inches above the level of the water. I don't know if the box floated to allow for the tides?
Does anyone hunt in that manner anymore?
Cool Philip. That's super neat. Thank you so very much for taking the time to share that. Yeah, there are still some of those types of 'sink blinds' being used. However, most are located along the Mississippi flyway in Arkansas, Mississippi and other states in that travel corridor and are dug into agricultural fields for hunting both duck and geese. These are used a lot in that region. As far as being used in our coastal sounds, no they are not really used anymore, that I have seen. There are duck blinds on the sound nowadays here in North Carolina but they are built up on pilings and are sitting slightly elevated above the water.
Most duck hunters of today use duck boats...you know how the young crowd is...its all about moving at mach speed and getting here and getting there yaddda yaddaa. flexibility in moving around is so much more beneficial, I suppose. I like to just sit and enjoy wildlife myself.
That having been said, there are one man boats called layout boats which create a very low profile on the horizon just as sink boxes do. These are used by duck hunters now in every state a 'duck flies'. I do know 'sink blinds' were the order of the day up in Currituck and around Corolla 60-70 years ago. There were some elite duck hunting clubs during that era that used them.
Please do send me some scanned pictures to my email, if you ever get a chance. Those would be neat to look at.
See private message for my email address.
Take care buddy, Chris