Canvasback that was no hunting, that was a man making a living. And what you would call a hunter would bait ducks to concentrate them then take as many a he could. Sportsman hunting as you know it was a fabrication when what had been about feeding your family became a gentlemans sport. Before it was about the bag limit. Just look at some of those old duck hunting photos with 50-100 ducks displayed in them.
Yup, Jon, well familiar with that. I have family photos of a farm wagon piled high with ducks taken in a day's shooting in southern Manitoba at the turn of the last century. When my grandfather and his brothers went shooting from the family farm, it was to fill the larder. I just don't like to romanticize their methods.
Modern slaughterhouses are damn efficient too!
What I did love about the website Thruxton linked us to was the wild eyed fanaticism of the guy building the gun and boat. HE thinks his quest is perfectly reasonable. The craziness of the fact that he built a building in which to build his gun and boat is entirely lost on him. Love people like that.
