The rollover boat was extremely popular in the 40’s and 50’s for hunting ducks on moving water, but it drifted into obscurity.
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The Rollover Boat – A Forgotten Method Of Sneak Boat Hunting For Ducks
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Not forgotten. The susquehanna rollover is alive and the method is more deadly than any method around. I'd love to get in contact with this gentleman
I like this and it serves a purpose for an era where people were hunting for survival and this improves your chances, no doubt about it. But I’d rather kill ducks over decoys than do this if I’m not hunting for survival.
Randy! Great to see you and your boat you told me so much about. All the best, Chris from the Baltimore Show.
Love it! Planning to try a float hunt this fall.
Great video…love the history.
I still go drifting wearing lifejacket and lot of bush but didn't know waterfowl were so dumb to let a boat come so close
I wish you would have described the procedure though a little better as to how you get it to roll over without sinking
Excellent! Great info! This is a bit of hunting trivia I have never heard, thank you keep up the good work. I guess this is a little bit more stealth than those cannons on the boats down in Chesapeake Bay for geese hunting at the turn of the century
Genius!
Why not make it look more like a log ducks are smarter than most think you always wit until they commit to land then blast them but the littlest glare or suspicion will scare them off
I thought they were going to flip the boat over, get under it and swim out to the ducks then grab their feet from under the water. Maybe next time.
Great day hunting
The reason nobody uses these anymore is it's basically jump shooting . For someone that just want meat this is what you do . This is NOT duck hunting . Fair chase is out the door .
I do this every season when blind is slow.
Very cool boat. A lot like a cod dory
The alternative method to sculling. Just when I thought I had seen it all and it makes perfect sense for river life. Must be quite an ordeal on the oar in any winds above 12 mph with so much freeboard, stay right, stay right! Thanks for sharing
We use sneak boats allot in central pa lots of fun has a blind on one side and a rudder. Same cosept… keep the old school heritage going
Would be a great idea. Trick is to find a state where you can shoot from a moving boat. A lot of U.S. states require the boat to be stationary or even anchored
neat boat, but what happens when it fills with water? Which seems likely at some point.
Until i started watching the video,i didn't even know what the title meant.
Very cool love duck hunting history!
Or just create/buy a canopy than resembles it like we have for the last 20-30 years. No need to risk capsizing for an effect that arguably wasn't even that good to begin with…
Definitely want to see some hunting out of this boat.
Thanks for sharing a blast from the past!
2:07 look at the fish jump
The magic of YouTube.
Do you know of how to obtain a plan or seller for a rollover boat?
Keeping with Tradition is awesome Thanks for the video.
Interesting…thanks for this..
Go a bit further and you’re flipped.
Man id love to have one of those. Floating up ducks is mighty fun and how I started. Its fun standing beside a tree and watching greenheads drop through the canopy but suprising them in an eddy in a river bend is mighty fun too.
Thanks for sharing
Reminds me of the guys that used punt guns and would lay down and float up on a whole group of ducks before unloading. I’ve was told some cool old stories by my grandfather who hunted Cairo and Reelfoot. He was an OG duck hunter I’ve still got his calls
Wow, neat to see something different ways of sneaking up the ducks. Thanks for posting.
Wow…makes sense. Nice