Thread: Let’s see ya gunboat setups

Anyone else shoot from a boat?I have found over the last few years that not being confined to one spot has been working well on the big lake I shoot,usually by 9am I have worked out the goose flight line and as long as it’s nowhere near an established blind I will move the boat and get amongst them.

Great set up

Actually... funny you should post this now. I've been working on this one for a while now. I came across the design when I was guiding a party of English Royalty on a Swan hunt off the Coast of Cornwall.

I hand milled all the timber, and built the boat from scratch in the shed at my bach. Then built the gun out of some hardened steel blasting pipe I got from a mate from my days mining in the outback. Made the flintlock mechanism out of some flint I collected during my time doing close protection work for some people in Sussex, UK. Shit it was hard work, but against all odds, I managed to get it done. Testing has gone pretty well, a little hard on the shoulder, but good patterning.

Hoping to give it it's first outing on the upper reaches of the Clarence, after towing it up with one of my jetboats.

I'll let you know how it goes!

Originally Posted by yeah_na_missed

Actually... funny you should post this now. I've been working on this one for a while now. I came across the design when I was guiding a party of English Royalty on a Swan hunt off the Coast of Cornwall.

I hand milled all the timber, and built the boat from scratch in the shed at my bach. Then built the gun out of some hardened steel blasting pipe I got from a mate from my days mining in the outback. Made the flintlock mechanism out of some flint I collected during my time doing close protection work for some people in Sussex, UK. Shit it was hard work, but against all odds, I managed to get it done. Testing has gone pretty well, a little hard on the shoulder, but good patterning.

Hoping to give it it's first outing on the upper reaches of the Clarence, after towing it up with one of my jetboats.

I'll let you know how it goes!

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"bunji likes this."

Originally Posted by yeah_na_missed

Actually... funny you should post this now. I've been working on this one for a while now. I came across the design when I was guiding a party of English Royalty on a Swan hunt off the Coast of Cornwall.

I hand milled all the timber, and built the boat from scratch in the shed at my bach. Then built the gun out of some hardened steel blasting pipe I got from a mate from my days mining in the outback. Made the flintlock mechanism out of some flint I collected during my time doing close protection work for some people in Sussex, UK. Shit it was hard work, but against all odds, I managed to get it done. Testing has gone pretty well, a little hard on the shoulder, but good patterning.

Hoping to give it it's first outing on the upper reaches of the Clarence, after towing it up with one of my jetboats.

I'll let you know how it goes!

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F & G would like to know your location

I'm sure you would hear the location on opening day.

Originally Posted by Barefoot

I'm sure you would hear the location on opening day.

I imagine the recoil would change his position pretty rapidly though !

"bunji likes this" - I think bunji might have written this

Not many boat shooters left I guess?

I'll play....


13 foot Allicraft with a 30hp yamaha. 2 Side curtains with camo vinyl drop into rod holders on each side....Additional rod holders take mangrove branches to break up the outline. Sleeping accommodation for 1. Bought it new in 1991


Venison steaks, tomatoes and mushrooms for lunch...


Camo tarp attached to side curtain frame to cover the boat and contents. Fold up camp stretcher sits lengthways under the tarp for sleeping.

Here is a pic of it camoed up in a clump of mangroves on the Kaipara...


Fooled this Kotuku which flew right over the top of me last year.....


Seems to get birds....


My hunting buddy camoed up waiting for birds to come in...


Bonus pic: Quad mounted duck plucker back at base...

Bet she boogies with 30ponies on the back!i sold my 18hp as it was scary fast on my 12ft parkercraft.

well we use boat for transport,I shoot a LOT of our birds from scooting around,finding birds on shore,going past and beaching boat then stalking along shoreline.
Ive contemplated doing the camo up of my 13foot tinny as a couple of groups shoot from big sleep in barges and do really well,but thats as much about the spot they are in,good calling,hundred plus decoys and lots of hot steel in air when birds in range.