Blind Draws

[Displaced_Vol]

Spell check aside, looks like the application period for season long blinds opens tomorrow.

 

[cbhunter]

I'm about over it myself.

 

[West_Tn]

I care less and less every year as the WMA's get worse and worse every year.

 

[yellalinehunter]

I care less and less every year as the WMA's get worse and worse every year.

Maybe instead of seeing how many they can cram into a spot they draw a 200yd radius so ducks can work without being sky busted or swings shot

 

[TNGunsmoke]

I'll worry with it once they update the blind/crop conditions page on the website. Which, to my way of thinking, should have been done prior to the day that the draw period opens. But, what do I expect out of TWRA?

 

[GUNNERX2]

I'll worry with it once they update the blind/crop conditions page on the website. Which, to my way of thinking, should have been done prior to the day that the draw period opens. But, what do I expect out of TWRA?

Ya know, back in the olden days, there was no such thing as a blind conditions/crop list prior to the drawing. If you were serious about duck hunting, you got out in July and go look at the blinds to see what kind of condition they were in. And that wasn't a guarantee that between the time you looked at them and blind drawing that one or more got burned. It was a glorious day when they started posting blind conditions ahead of time and you didn't have to get out in the heat, fight wasps and snakes.









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[WilcoKen]

Good luck to all. It's been a while since I've been selected. Maybe this year will be the one.

 

[MickThompson]

Maybe instead of seeing how many they can cram into a spot they draw a 200yd radius so ducks can work without being sky busted or swings shot

If they try to get rid of a blind or move a blind, someone will be calling their state representative

 

[West_Tn]

If they try to get rid of a blind or move a blind, someone will be calling their state representative

And it will do no good.

 

[drake799]

I care less and less every year as the WMA's get worse and worse every year.

I've thought for a long time they need to draw in the spring and let the people that draw do with the spots as they like

 

[WaterSwatter]

I'll worry with it once they update the blind/crop conditions page on the website. Which, to my way of thinking, should have been done prior to the day that the draw period opens. But, what do I expect out of TWRA?

They're up now but I'm highly doubting their accuracy. And if it is accurate, they burned some blinds I know for a fact were in decent shape.

 

[cbhunter]

They're up now but I'm highly doubting their accuracy. And if it is accurate, they burned some blinds I know for a fact were in decent shape.

My app isn't working

Care to post a link?

 

[TNGunsmoke]

https://www.tn.gov/content/tn/twra/hunting/migratory-birds/public-land-duck-hunting.html#wmaStatus
Region I link
https://www.tn.gov/content/tn/twra/...egion-1-waterfowl-areas-and-crops-status.html

 

[cbhunter]

https://www.tn.gov/content/tn/twra/hunting/migratory-birds/public-land-duck-hunting.html#wmaStatus
Region I link
https://www.tn.gov/content/tn/twra/...egion-1-waterfowl-areas-and-crops-status.html

Thanks for the help.i actually found it and was coming back to say so

 

[GUNNERX2]

They're up now but I'm highly doubting their accuracy. And if it is accurate, they burned some blinds I know for a fact were in decent shape.

You are aware that the TWRA are not the only ones that burn blinds.

 

[Schap]

If you have to build a blind be smart build a floater and then you can keep it after your draw is done.

 

[Pic IN the Casa]

If you have to build a blind be smart build a floater and then you can keep it after your draw is done.

We did this a few years ago.

 

[MickThompson]

I've thought for a long time they need to draw in the spring and let the people that draw do with the spots as

They'll still blame TWRA when their crop fails for not planting it

 

[Bo Diddley]

My biggest gripe about the season long blind is that priority points do not apply. Looks like they would definitely apply, but they do not.

 

[Stlbaseball1]

Priority points suck. Just look at Presidents Island for deer hunting. 14 points likely to get drawn this year. If you started putting in now for the first time who knows if you would ever have a chance to be drawn in your lifetime. Put all the names in the barrel with equal odds and give me "a chance" each time a name is drawn.

 

[yellalinehunter]

Good things come to those that wait.

 

[yellalinehunter]

My biggest gripe about the season long blind is that priority points do not apply. Looks like they would definitely apply, but they do not.

I don't understand stand that either. I don't like the way points are used in the early, mid , late draws as well.

 

[West_Tn]

Check out TWRA's post on Facebook making up excuses for no crop in the bottoms this year. Yes we have had a ton of rain but they are flat out lying saying the pumps have been running non stop since April.

Also at Big Sandy they don't even try to get the water out anymore. Hasn't been planted in years.

 

[MickThompson]

Check out TWRA's post on Facebook making up excuses for no crop in the bottoms this year. Yes we have had a ton of rain but they are flat out lying saying the pumps have been running non stop since April.

Also at Big Sandy they don't even try to get the water out anymore. Hasn't been planted in years

Pumping only works if you have somewhere to put the water. If you can't duck hunt without corn, there's always knitting I reckon.

 

[TNGunsmoke]

Honestly, if moist soil plants are so great, why not plant the refuges in them. If it's enough for the bottoms, shouldn't it be enough for them?

 

[scn]

Honestly, if moist soil plants are so great, why not plant the refuges in them. If it's enough for the bottoms, shouldn't it be enough for them?

I don't think anyone is saying that it is as good. But, if it is too wet to plant anything else, that is what is left.

 

[TNGunsmoke]

I don't think anyone is saying that it is as good. But, if it is too wet to plant anything else, that is what is left.

What I'm getting at is that I have seen interviews with different WMA managers in TN from a few years ago that were saying the moist soil plants are better for the ducks, therefore were what they wanted in the WMA's (as a bonus, they're less work). The ducks prefer the corn, no doubt, just like most kids prefer candy to a sandwich. Yet the refuge areas are planted in corn, wall to wall(much like the bottoms used to be), and some of them (according to rumors) to pour additional corn out in areas that the bird watchers use, to keep some birds around to entertain them.

 

[West_Tn]

Pumping only works if you have somewhere to put the water. If you can't duck hunt without corn, there's always knitting I reckon.

So why pump non stop since April like they claim in there is no where to pump it to? I get that they like to waste money, but that would be extra dumb.

 

[MickThompson]

So why pump non stop since April like they claim in there is no where to pump it to? I get that they like to waste money, but that would be extra dumb.

You claimed the pumps didn't run around the clock though. Make up your mind already.

How has TVA water management changed in the last 20 years?

 

[WilcoKen]

Honestly, if moist soil plants are so great, why not plant the refuges in them. If it's enough for the bottoms, shouldn't it be enough for them?

Exactly--The refuges and the tier 2s. The tier 2 blinds seem to get planted fine and have great looking corn whereas most all the other food holes have been looking pathetic since this mess started. It's been especially bad the last several years.