I'm a die hard duck hunter myself! Just wondering if anyone else on the boards hunts for waterfowl.Thumbs Up
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I'm a die hard duck hunter myself! Just wondering if anyone else on the boards hunts for waterfowl.Thumbs Up
I have been trying to learn just not much luck. Something to do between deer season and fishing. I need to get more serious about it.
I use to do a good bit of it in the past, but Deer season is just too long and then there's Winter fishing. I got to hunt one day this year and had a limit of Mallards and Canadians by 10:30. It was my first try at setting up decoys on a pond. I'd been hearing Ducks and Geese use this pond all season. It was like they were teasing me while I was in my stand. A week or so after the late bow season ended, it was time to take revenge!
I do have to admit, it was pretty fun not having to load a boat, break ice or slog hundreds of yards in mud carting decoys in. I just parked at the landowners barn and walked about 150 yards or so to this big pond and set up. The only problem is that I only brought along Hevi-Shot 3 inch steel BB's thinking they would work on Ducks. It didn't turn out like that, I guess there were too few pellets to get a good pattern (Carlson's modified choke). Took way more shells than it should have to get a limit. But they were deadly on the Geese!
I hunt every week in the season not much teal hunting as fishing is good around that time have mudboat and sevveral hundred goose and duck decoys we lug around I really like killin geese best however
Okie Don that sounds like my kind of hunt, EASY.
Big George where do you hunt?
I would be what you call a full blown addict during duck season you would be hard pressed to track me down ,, i hunt anywhere i can,, from 10 foot wide runnin creeks when everything is locked up to the big water ,ponds ,fields anywhere i think i got a chance at gettin our limits for the day
Everything I hunt is mostly private land along and around 412 to Verdigris river bottoms between Coweta and Wagoner
Been an avid waterfowler since 1980. Most of my time is spent around Texoma. Just check my signature at the bottom...I think thats what its called! Thumbs Up
Waterfowl hunting the 'other' addiction. Used to be a time when the fall flight would keep me up at night, wondering how many of them were sticking around. Laughing at me in my sleep, so when you hit the water you were already sleep deprived. Then I was in an accident and received a TBI which totally screwed my vision up. Used to be a shooter, now I'm a pooter. Had to give it up, now I've passed the addiction on to my oldest son, and since he was my bird-dog he had none. Now come Sun night I watch 2 souls drag their dead butts home, my son and his dog. Natural born killers them two, and I have NO REGRETS, just don't tell my son I said that. I think his group shot around 30 banded birds this year, I kid him a lot about hunting in the park, not really. I just found out this past week, that one of my last ducks I shot (3yrs ago) was a black duck. I thought it was a mallard with late summer plummage still. I've seen the waterfowl hunting really grow in leaps and bounds this past decade, used to a handful at the lake, now that's per parking area. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane guys, hope I didn't bore you to death.
Must be one hell of a flyway to kill 30 banded ducks we are lucky to kill 2 or 3 a year this year had some honkys come in and killed 2 both were banded that was a treat
Only like 6 were ducks, lots and lots of banded snows. Pretty easy to do when 3 or 4 guys are shooting 125-187 snowgeese per day. I don't know the dark goose total, I do know the last weekend of ducks here in KS, they shot 1 banded mallard and 4 canadians. Them boys hunt 7/52 if they could. Up around Jamestown the spring flight will put 2 million snows in a very small area, something like the size of a county. Up on the N Platte in Neb, some years the cholera will kill 1-2 million on avg. Dead birds everywhere, but that's the small print stuff.
I would love to be in on shoots in areas like that
Big G, keep us in mind next year. Send me a pm, and I'll get you in on a shoot. Up around Lovewell Res. in Republic county, some of the landowners even provide the shotshells. Sounds pretty far-fetched in todays day and age. But we've seen 'em strip the winter wheat completely outta the ground, leaving NOTHING. I've seen it look like it just snowed a foot they were so thick. Glen Elder, Jamestown, Lovewell will become inundated for weeks when they show up, and there's plenty on the public hunting also.
I have a nice little lake behind my house and we hunt ducks hard, once the deer tags are filled. I always have a labrador in the yard too.
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Originally Posted by crappiedoc
I have yet to go on a snow hunt, but it's on the list!
Yes, I'm a hard core waterfowler as well. I don't fish at all when it's hunting season.
I just moved down here from Ohio in late Jan 2011. I really like to fish, but I live, breathe and eat waterfowl and deer hunting. Probably waterfowl more than anything. The hardest thing about leaving Ohio was giving up all the great permission I worked so hard for years to get. Now Im starting over at square one, its frustrating! From what I understand most of the landowners in Ok lease their land?
I live near Collinsville, and would really like to meet some other waterfowlers if nothing more to pick their brain and bs a little bit! In the last several years Ive switched to nearly a full field hunting gameplan, and moving here from what I can gather there isnt a lot of field hunting to be had in NE Ok so I have a big switch in strategies ahead and another reason to open the wallet!
I have a 860 wareagle on order that I'm looking forward to pulling some crapies in with soon and hopefully loading up with ducks this fall and winter.
OK, OK, I will speak up! It's on you to contact me, I'll get ya lined up. Who wants the birds? I have a 22cubic ft freezer with 21.5 feet of those suckers. But ya'll have to answer this one question-- How's come waterfowler's get mountin' disease faster than any other outdoors adventurer's?? My kid's got it, bad! No, I want to mount that one, that's a platypus billed swamp diver. Yea right. BUT, he's got lot's of jewelery, Cheyenne Bottoms seems to give up the most. It's public and has a early season, and is really good for puddle ducks. But the late season Snow/Blue hunts are barrel-melting, fill the back of your pick-up kinda stuff. Maybe a cast-in-blast if Glen's full, we can always chum for catfish. HAHA
Erie lots of field hunting to be had especially late season maybe some day we can meet up and talk about it all
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Originally Posted by Big George
I'd be all for that George. I have a few crop fields near my house that had quite a few birds mid to late Feb. Mostly mallards and canadas, but I did see some pintails and a few snows. Those were likely after the season closed.
Back home I had something to trade for some local help, here all I can offer is a gracious thank you and adding decoys to someones spread if they have some extra room. I have a sweet field spread setup. I'll also smoke some of the best goose you ever ate and make some great sausage out of it too!
Hey Erie just want to tell that my brother has a guide service down here is SW Ok. Hes been doing it for a while know and we kill alot of ducks and geese. I would like to get that recipe for duck or goose sausage. He had some client bring some that was real good.
Can we barter some food processing knowledge for a hunt with you guys? It would be great to see what SW Oklahoma has to offer. I wouldnt want to get in your brothers way from making some money, but if you would have room for another guy on a non-client hunt that would be great. If not, I can hook you up with a good recipie anyhow. Shoot me a PM and we can work it out either way.Quote:
Originally Posted by SW CrappieHunter