{"id":720,"date":"2012-11-17T15:46:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T23:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/?p=720"},"modified":"2012-11-17T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T23:58:10","slug":"layout-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/blog\/layout-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Layout Hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hunting from\u00a0a layout boat is one of the more classic, challenging and rewarding ways to take trophy ducks. Nobody who has\u00a0experienced layout hunting says it&#8217;s\u00a0easy,\u00a0it is not.\u00a0\u00a0The gunner&#8217;s\u00a0laying down in the box 6 inches below the waterline with a shot window and swing that is narrow from the constraints and variables of a floating blind. Even on a calm day there is something to getting the timing right to rise, mark and shoot a duck that&#8217;s screaming in on the wing and often setting on your decoys only yards from the bow.\u00a0 Now add in some wind chop\u00a0with swell and you have something that no sporting clays course could ever\u00a0match. But gunning old school is rewarding, especially when you get duck you&#8217;ve been waiting a lifetime to achieve.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/blog\/layout-hunting\/attachment\/jimmybge-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-723\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-723\" title=\"JImmys Layout Barrow's\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/jimmyBGE1-215x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/jimmyBGE1-215x223.jpg 215w, https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/jimmyBGE1-140x145.jpg 140w, https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/jimmyBGE1-450x468.jpg 450w, https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/jimmyBGE1.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunting from\u00a0a layout boat is one of the more classic, challenging and rewarding ways to take trophy ducks. Nobody who has\u00a0experienced layout hunting says it&#8217;s\u00a0easy,\u00a0it is not.\u00a0\u00a0The gunner&#8217;s\u00a0laying down in the box 6 inches below the waterline with a shot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/blog\/layout-hunting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}