Duck hunting marsh seat

[Bill]

I hunt public land and refuges, so we're hunting in tulies and cattails all day, very rarely are we in pit blinds. Instead of standing, or crushing down tulies to made a seat, I made this out of pvc. I put a piece of scrap 1x4 on the top and glued and screwed some old scrap carpet on it for a little comfort.

It looks clunky, but I have a Cabelas blind bag that is a backpack, and when I put the seat through the top cinch-rope and tighten it up, and then strap down the top cover and loop the pcv pipe, it's actually held in well. Most of the time we ride mountain bikes to get to the ponds in the refuges, so I can ride a mountain bike with this on my back, my shotgun in a rack on the handlebars and some decoys in a bag also over my shoulders and cover a mile plus from the truck really fast in the race to the ponds. After I painted it I decided to pour a bunch more gorilla glue on it, which is why it looks as ugly as it does.

My son has called me the "Prince of PVC"

[canny]

looks good...

[Bigreno]

Pretty cool little seat. Just make sure that PVC will hold up to a long day's hunting. If that leg was to snap while you were sitting on it....

[maglite]

Just make sure you put the right side down!!! OUCH

[Bill]

If that leg was to snap while you were sitting on it....

One fellow I hunt with is a little 'portly' (stocky?) and he made one out of the black plumbing pvc with the top flange being the type that goes under the toilet and the commode bolts down to it and a round plywood seat screwed-in, with the 4" black pcv for the leg. That one is not going anywhere.

I really gave it a bend/ twist and wiggle test the 1st time I used it to see if I cold break it.

[Drenalin_Ag99]

PVC gets brittle with cold water after lots of years, but heck you can make one every other year, good thinking, got my wheels turning.

[holdin4horns]

I was worried about the use of PVC also, for future duck seasons. However, the duck blind on my jon boat has held up pretty good so far!

[Texastaxi]

so I can ride a mountain bike with this on my back, my shotgun in a rack on the handlebars and some decoys in a bag also over my shoulders

Your heart is definately in REDNECK country!

Please post pictures oh Prince of the PVC!

[badkarma]

You can use the grey schedule 40 conduit which a little thicker and made to be buried under ground. It will hold up better without a lot more weight. And if you are extra "husky" you could go with schedule 80 thick walled pvc. I made a turkey seat out of the grey sch. 40 and it has worked great for years.

[Bill]

Your heart is definately in REDNECK country!

Please post pictures oh Prince of the PVC!

Best compliment I've had today.

I don't have any pics of riding the mt bike duck hunting, but here's my son and I enjoying some duck gumbo behind the truck in the parking lot of the Los Banos (CA) wildlife refuge for a mid-day break. If you look carefully, it's hard to see but he made the gun rack on his mt bike out of a pair of blacktail deer sheds with some old carpet wrapped around them, probably held together with duct tape.

Somebody once described the sign-in line at the Grey Lodge Wildlife Area (north of Sacramento in the rice farming area of the central valley) as looking like a casting-call for a modern remake of the movie "Deliverance". Hard for you folks to accept I know with the popular view of Cali, but there are a number of back-woods boys when you get out of the liberal cities on the coast.

[Ron]

Neat idea!

[Flash]

Got four just like it built out of wood. Looks good!

[innergel]

I made a turkey seat out of the grey sch. 40 and it has worked great for years.

I need to see pics of this please. Like immediately! I need a new turkey seat.