Avery Sled Idea?

[JEDJR]

Guys, As I go through all the new waterfowling catalogs, I look at all the stuff out there for duck and goose hunters.
Avery makes groundblinds that fold up for portability, Pit and blind bags to consolidate our gear decoy bags x-large to pothole size and everything in between.
Now, For the mobile goose hunter, He needs a gun, a groundblind, blind bag for gear and decoys to hunt.
Even with Avery's innovations on these products, trying to carry this out all at once is almost impossible, especially in hard to reach really muddy areas. I know, I tried it several times last year.
My point is , Has there been any more talk on a sled to pull gear out to the field with?
There has to be a market for this. What I just described is a true case scenario, and anyone who has tried to carry all this at once understands what I'm talking about.

A sled with some small sides to keep anything from falling out with a good strong rope to pull. Details can be worked out on length, color, etc..
Any thoughts on this??

[Sully]

I think a sled or some kind of cart would be great. Just like you said, you have to have something to carry a gun, blind, bag, and make it where it would at least hold a bag of decoys. I've got some public areas I hunt that a sled would make it much easier. Especially if I hunt it by myself, I always have to make 2 or 3 trips to the truck, and it is a LONG walk.

[Brett Beinke]

Jed,

Up here ice fishing is very popular and a lot of guys will have the exact sled you are talking about to haul all their stuff out on early and late ice. Many of these guys give their sled double duty in the fall for hauling out decoys on sholders or by dragging the sleds behind ATV's. From my own experience with them if you do not drag then behind an ATV it is time to break out the Power Hunters and the skinny's for hunting land or waterkeels for hunting water. The best bag out there for packing in water decoys is Avery's Floating Decoy Bag. It can also handle a lot of Oversized Shells! As far as Avery making something along these lines it is difficult to say as there are a lot of irons in the fire right now but you never know.

[JEDJR]

Skinny's? And leave my GHG and DSD Specks at home??

I know theres alot of irons in the fire right now Brett, I was just wondering if you guys were still kicking the idea around.

As you stated, these things can pull double or triple duty, and we got alot of positive feedback on this idea from alot of hunters on these in the past.

[ksgoosekilr]

I wouldn't think there would be too much of a market. You can buy one like you describe for $20 at cabeals that also floats (*** long as you don't tip it too much side to side. I would just go to walmart after winter and buy a cheap plastic sled on clearance. I have seen those in action and they work great.

[JEDJR]

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/te...abelas%2Fen%2F common%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-box.jsp.22&Go.x=29&Go.y=8&N=4887&Ntk=Products&Ntx= mode+matchall&Nty=1&Ntt=sled&noImage=0&returnPage= search-results1.jsp

Here is the one in Cabelas. I would like to see something alittle longer and wider for carrying more fullbodies, but this may have to work for now..

[Mark Moates]

Jed,
Scott and I use a sled to pull all of our gear out to the blind. We attach it to the back of our four wheeler. It works great.

Mark Moates
Avery Pro-Staff

[JEDJR]

Mark, do you use the one in the link I posted, or is there something better out there?

How's Scott doing? Haven't heard from him in awhile. I know he is really busy this time of year.
Let him know if I'm in town and he needs any help at Bowies or Spillway Sportsman in a couple weeks to unload some decoys or help out at the store, to give me a call.

[Mark Moates]

Jed,
It is very similar to the one in the picture. We usually do not carry more than one bag of decoys in the sled. Usually our decoys are already at the blind. We mainly use it to carry our gear.

I will tell Scott you said hello and to give you a shout.

Mark Moates
Avery Pro-Staff

Fellow who used to hunt with us sold a great sled/poor-man's-coffin-blind he called a "Ground Box". Just a plain poly tub that was light, stackable, and sized to accomodate a large man lying down. Wish I'd bought a half dozen, despite what little doubt killed it for him: a much too high price. Was trying to get well over $100 (have $189 in my head), when he could have sold 'em to half the waterfowlers in the country for $60-70 per.