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Gobblevt
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:36 am Posts: 1063 Location: Fredericksburg, VA Catlett, VA
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Beat the Ice
Had my 2 deicers on this past week sure has paid off ! Kept mallards widgeon blacks gadwall and sprig tail around during the artic plunge
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Thu Jan 09, 2014 5:40 pm |
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skimerhorn
King of Spring
Joined: Wed Feb 13, 2013 2:28 pm Posts: 526 Location: Beaverdam va
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Re: Beat the Ice
Good deal I'm glad you got on some. I'm headed down to Amelia on sat to try and get on some ringnecks, then next weekend up for a hunt on the Potomac. Hoping to get on a sprigue, or a bull can.
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Thu Jan 09, 2014 9:19 pm |
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Gobblevt
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:36 am Posts: 1063 Location: Fredericksburg, VA Catlett, VA
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Re: Beat the Ice
Found a mess this am in flooded field below beaver dam that was open. Limited out on mallards gadwall and pintails this am . Bout 300 tried to get n there!
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Fri Jan 10, 2014 2:24 pm |
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skimerhorn
King of Spring
Joined: Wed Feb 13, 2013 2:28 pm Posts: 526 Location: Beaverdam va
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Re: Beat the Ice
Better keep on whackin em time isn't on our side.
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Fri Jan 10, 2014 8:00 pm |
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skimerhorn
King of Spring
Joined: Wed Feb 13, 2013 2:28 pm Posts: 526 Location: Beaverdam va
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Re: Beat the Ice
Got into a bunch of ringnecks in the fog this am. Saw some mallards give us a flyby, but were to high.
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Sat Jan 11, 2014 7:45 pm |
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Gobblevt
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:36 am Posts: 1063 Location: Fredericksburg, VA Catlett, VA
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Re: Beat the Ice
Way to go on the ringers! Hunted a lake in Loudoun Co sat w some guys. Killed 13 geese ...2 buffs... redhead and a mallard drake . Had a deicer but there was a large open area in middle about 2 acres lot of divers went there and not to our hole.
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Mon Jan 13, 2014 7:52 am |
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skimerhorn
King of Spring
Joined: Wed Feb 13, 2013 2:28 pm Posts: 526 Location: Beaverdam va
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Re: Beat the Ice
Headed up on the Potomac this weekend, hoping to get a nice can or sprige.
_________________ "Hunting is fun"-Jim Shockey
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Mon Jan 13, 2014 8:23 am |
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hendup
King of Spring
Joined: Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:08 am Posts: 1622 Location: Cartersville, Va
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Re: Beat the Ice
What kind of deicer are you using?
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Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:28 pm |
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Gobblenow
Co-Owner/Dog Feeder
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:20 am Posts: 3800
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Re: Beat the Ice
Henned- fooled with the deicer stuff for forty +years, and have used small air compressors through ventilated sunken tubing, well pumps with propellors, but the real thing, hands down is the Mallard view Outdoors Ice Eater…got one three years ago and there is no comparison...somewhat expensive at perhaps $700…but it will open and keep open a fifty yard hole in sub zero temps. Can run it off a portable generator or a plug in to 110.. if you go full in on this set up, and want coplete portability, The honda 2000 generator accepts a six gallon auxiliary tank that will run the ice eater for fifty hours.. I could not endorse any outdoor product more than this Ice Eater. (edit to correct hole size at zero degrees…50 yds wide eighty yds long….kept open that size or bigger through last few weeks of frigid air with wind chills well below zero on many day).
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Mon Jan 27, 2014 9:55 am |
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Gobblevt
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:36 am Posts: 1063 Location: Fredericksburg, VA Catlett, VA
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Re: Beat the Ice
hendup wrote: What kind of deicer are you using? Diffuser and air compressor and a kenco ice eater Hendup. Diffuser worked better in deeper water .
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GO HOKIES!
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Mon Jan 27, 2014 6:56 pm |
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