Duck Hunting?

[Sticks&Strings]

Getting good FINALLY up here. Cold weather has pushed them down. Our season has been very hit and miss this year, but mornings like today keep me going. Six limits on the river this morning.

I hope we get some more this week

[Puggy625]

I used to say that same thing to my brother and his hunting buddies back in Arkansas. I loved deer hunting and couldn't understand the draw to duck hunting. He told me the same thing, "go three times and if you aren't hooked, I'll kiss your a##". I went, by the third trip, I was buying decoys, bag, shells, a call, etc.

I cut my teeth on duck hunting in my mid 20's in Bayou Meto in SE Arkansas of all places. That is one place that can only be experienced, not explained. Haven't been back to hunt in years. I may plan on a few days hunting up there next year though. I miss it.

[Monark]

in a warm bed with the little woman.

This works better for me. Then to Krogers for a couple of chickens. Too old for the 4:00 am blast off, cold, wet, muddy. It's a young man's game & after the years pass, he will start to think like me.

[Bill]

My son started watching Duck Commander VHS tapes (remember them) and walking around quacking on a mallard call in 8th grade, he got me to take him. Both of us, 1 Mossberg 500 with my scope for shooting pigs on it. We'll never forget it!

We learned, he got his own gun and we went through high school, and then he went to college in northern CA where the rice is grown "to major in construction management and kill ducks". I'll add drink lots of beer and hopefully get hot, willing females out of his system before settling down. I used to go there to hunt with him many weekends.

Killing ducks or not, there's something about the preparation, getting up at 2:30am, setting up and the sun rising in the east and there is only water, sky, tulies and some trees to make me forget all of life's problems. Hot, cold, wet, eaten by mosquitoes, tired, loose stuff, dealing with idiots on public land- it's addictive. Watch out or it will hook you.

When the fog cleared and the Sutter Buttes came into view and ducks were in the air, it was almost like a morning in heaven!

[akey]

Ducks and geese.... They eat well. Especially in gumbo or the perineal favorite, stuffed with cream cheese and a slice of jalapeño and the wrapped in bacon.
I got into waterfowling when I was 6-7 years old because down here, it's what we do. Kinda like the folks that grew up in the hill country are introduced into deer hunting because that is what is there and readily available, so it was with me growing up on my grandparents 800 acre rice farm ...... It's what we did

As far as what "it is" about is not something that I feel can really be explained. I mean I can tell you how cool it is or how awesome it is to be working a flight of sprigs with the ole pintail whistle and then they flop over and plunge down out of the ozone right on top of you. Or I can describe what it's like to be caught up inside a sky carp tornado, watching them swirl closer and closer, then seeing a couple of them do a whiffle right in front of you....

I/we could try to explain all that but it wouldn't do any good. It has to be witnessed and experienced. Once that happens you'll be hooked and then you'll look back at this post and say
" wow!!! Now I get it, I wish I would have done this years ago

This pretty much sums up what my first duck hunting experience did to me. I had resisted it for years and finally got talked in to going. Dawn breaking over the foggy water, birds coming in on us from every direction. I get goosebumps thinking about it. I sat in a deer stand once this season. The whole time I sat there I was wishing I was down on the riverfront hunting wood ducks.

[Razrbk89]

Falling water has pulled a lot of ducks to the river. The last few days have been the first we've been able to wade in some of our favorite holes since the flood. The water has been too deep in the woods for ducks for several weeks. Had another good shoot this morning.

[TXHUNT3R]

Falling water has pulled a lot of ducks to the river. The last few days have been the first we've been able to wade in some of our favorite holes since the flood. The water has been too deep in the woods for ducks for several weeks. Had another good shoot this morning.

Heck yeah, looks like you guys are on em!

[Kurdawg]

It is very addicting, fun but hard, and sometimes a bunch of excitement

[simsknives]

It's way less stressful than deer hunting. You don't have to worry about well was it old enough or did it need another year. You just go out with your buddies and have a good time.

[Eagle19]

Getting good FINALLY up here. Cold weather has pushed them down. Our season has been very hit and miss this year, but mornings like today keep me going. Six limits on the river this morning.

You in hardcore water fowler or duckwacker? Saw this on fb yesterday?


I like shooting at moving targets. This year was my best year so far. It's a lot of work and pretty miserable if you don't get anything but I think that's part of the fun. I hunt mostly on a river so it's kinda difficult since I don't own any land and the river has to be flooded in order to hunt it. And at that ducks have to be here. Luckily this year we had a flooded river and birds showed up, it was a blast. There's just something addicting about hearing ducks quack up above and trying to call them in while hugging a tree trying not to be seen. What I'm addicted to more than anything is the fact I haven't limited out once in 3 seasons I've been hunting so I'm just waiting for that morning where I limit out.