How many duck hunters remember this

[bowhuntertex]

I have one given to me by the states head duck biologist when I was a kid. I need to frame it.

[dragonsdaddy]

Ordered one of these a while back. Cool poster, glad it's not todays system.

http://www.posters57.com/index.php?m...roducts_id=659

what is wrong with having enough ducks that the ptb could justify allowing up to 10 per day? please enlighten us. i can't justify working as hard as i used to for only 3-4 ducks. i would really love for the old system to be reinstated.

[El Viejo]

if by pain, you mean having to be selective before shooting, and having to be able to add to 90 and maybe having to pick and clean 10 birds a day, then i agree. otherwise, i have no idea what the complaint is.

The pain was having to identify fast flying birds, differentiating between hens & drakes and then keep track of points as opposed to simply counting birds.

[Tubby]

<raises hand>

I remember....

[Texasm1976]

Ordered one of these a while back. Cool poster, glad it's not todays system.

http://www.posters57.com/index.php?m...roducts_id=659

Thanks I will be ordering two.

[dragonsdaddy]

The pain was having to identify fast flying birds, differentiating between hens & drakes and then keep track of points as opposed to simply counting birds.

we had a great set up, so we were shooting decoying birds, which we knew their genetics before shooting. we killed 37 between 4 once, and 30 for 3 too. i guess i see the old way as an opportunity rather than a handicap. one fast and hard rule in our set up. no pre dawn birds who weren't decoying, because they were always woodies. 1 woodie and you became a retriever.

[flyby]

The pain was having to identify fast flying birds, differentiating between hens & drakes and then keep track of points as opposed to simply counting birds.

Still have to keep track of hens and drakes and identify fast flying birds.

[Bonesplitter]

I remember, it would never work now.

[Chunky]

Yes I remember. Made you learn your ducks

[dragonsdaddy]

I remember, it would never work now.

why, if you don't mind splainin? game laws were broken then as now. people who follow the laws stay out of trouble. the rest, not so much. or are you bemoaning the lack of math skills by our public school grads of the last 20 years?

[Timemachine]

I did the death march into the McFaddin Marsh one morning in 1981(like so many mornings before). First birds came in...boom. I drop one. I spent a LONG time searching for it. Meanwhile my friends are slaughtering bird and did not notice Federal GW Ed Jackson closing in on our group. I finally find my bird about the time Ed get to the edge of the pond. He come over just as I found the bird. He says...."Wow...canvasback hen. Guess you are thru for the day huh??

Yeahhhhh. The system was easy to use and understand but if you shoot a 100 point duck (the only duck worth 100 points) at sunrise, you were done. The trick was to shoot 9 each of the 10 point birds and than save your last shot for a 35, 70 or 100 point bird, usually a mottled duck. Also interesting fact, in those days, the GW's carried a rectal thermometer to determine which bird you shot first. Honest abe...you can't make this stuff up.

If you never met Ed Jackson, you missed on of the hardest working GW's of the early 80's. He would carry a "plywood" shotgun so that he would not LOOK like a GW from a distance.

[dragonsdaddy]

I did the death march into the McFaddin Marsh one morning (like so many mornings before). First birds came in...boom. I drop one. I spent a LONG time searching for it. Meanwhile my friends are slaughtering bird and did not notice Federal GW Ed Jackson closing in on our group. I finally find my bird about the time Ed get to the edge of the pond. He come over just as I found the bird. He says...."Wow...canvasback hen. Guess you are thru for the day huh??

Yeahhhhh. The system was easy to use and understand but if you shoot a 100 point duck (the only duck worth 100 points) at sunrise, you were done. The trick was to shoot 9 each of the 10 point birds and than save your last shot for a 35, 70 or 100 point bird, usually a mottled duck. Also interesting fact, in those days, the GW's carried a rectal thermometer to determine which bird you shot first. Honest abe...you can't make this stuff up.

If you never met Ed Jackson, you missed on of the hardest working GW's of the early 80's. He would carry a "plywood" shotgun so that he would LOOK like a GW from a distance.

i never saw that happen, but i heard about it.

[crittergitter]

[ATTACH]386615[/ATTACH] I remember my dad having this same one in the garage. Wish he would have kept it.

they also made cards like that for your wallet.

[Pin Oak DXT]

I sure remember those days. I did like shooting a bunch of teal, gadwall, etc.

[SouthTX1911]

Doesn't really sound much different from today. Still have to id birds.