Thirty gallon trash bags make pretty decent ponchos, too. Cut a head hole and two arm holes and you're set to keep the upper part of your body dry. My son does this when he has to unplug stopped up sprinklers on our irrigation systems.

Regarding dove hunting, if you use a "Mojo Dove", get it as high as reasonably possible. Gil gave me a two piece pole that gets mine up to about 10 ft., and I was amazed at how much more effective it is.

To keep a duck hole from freezing overnight, without access to an ice-eater, take a boat with outboard motor and full tank of gas to hole. Tie it to a couple trees so that the prop wash pushes across the hole. Put it in gear at a low speed and just leave it all night.

SRH

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