GPS ducks being shot at an alarming rate..

[Bgoodman30]

11 shot yesterday. 7 over the opening weekend... Our club has killed 2 this week.. Supposedly 120 were deployed this year but still that's a relatively small number compared to the number of birds in TN.. I am guessing these trapped birds are wanting to relocate from the refuge were they were trapped with a net cannon and leading to their demise?

 

[younggun308]

All the transmitters were for sure placed this year?

 

[Bgoodman30]

All the transmitters were for sure placed this year?

I just read 120 deployed this year. Of the 11 yesterday, 9 were from this year and 2 from last year.

 

[jkelley429]

Where are you finding this information? I just checked their FB page and don't see anything from yesterday. Is there somewhere else they post about it?

 

[tickweed]

I wish l could harvest one

 

[Levee Jumper]

If a duck tried to land on any water hole in West Tennessee that wasn't a reserve during the opener there was a 99.9% chance there was a gun on it. Years like this, we need to all appreciate that we have a good reserve system in the state or they would all be in other stakes getting killed.

 

[Bgoodman30]

Where are you finding this information? I just checked their FB page and don't see anything from yesterday. Is there somewhere else they post about it?

Our guy who shot it was told when he called and checked it in.

 

[Bgoodman30]

I wish l could harvest one

Yeah I am not that lucky either... But chances looking better this year if they can survive...

 

[Dodge Man]

I killed one 2 years ago, they get smarter as the season goes on. But they also put the transmitters on new duck if one gets killed so there is 120 out there for most of the season.

 

[Titanxd17]

I killed one on the first opening day.

 

[Bgoodman30]

I killed one 2 years ago, they get smarter as the season goes on. But they also put the transmitters on new duck if one gets killed so there is 120 out there for most of the season.

So they capture a new duck and release every time one is turned in?

 

[Bgoodman30]

I killed one on the first opening day.

Was it captured this year?

 

[Dodge Man]

So they capture a new duck and release every time one is turned in?

I think they have live traps out in a few areas and when they get 3-5 or more of the transmitters returned they get some ducks and put the transmitters on them. Something like that, they are not doing 1-1 trap and releasing.

 

[Titanxd17]

Was it captured this year?

Yup 11/3

 

[mike243]

2 ?, whats alarming about ducks being shot, who chipped them ? are you supposed to look for it before you shoot ? lol have heard of the bands but not the gps deal

 

[tickweed]

I hunted with the guy who bands them last yr one morning near whites lake. He made a comment that morning, he said there was 54 sitting on whites lake that morning.of course, there was probably 50000 ducks at least on the refuge.

 

[Displaced_Vol]

Just to be clear: is the research team doing the banding alarmed? Is that what they told your buddy when he called?

 

[Dodge Man]

Just to be clear: is the research team doing the banding alarmed? Is that what they told your buddy when he called?

I don't think any of the data alarms them. It is just research to see how and when the ducks are moving. If a lot got shot opening weekend then it tells them that a lot of ducks in the area we're moving. If very few were shot it would tell them that the ducks stayed put and didn't move.

 

[Smashdn]

Opening weekend would go along with what they said before, ducks react to hunting pressure when they have been in an area for a while. They find the safe spots, or die. Everything is safe when no hunting has occurred so they then make use of the best habitat. Until the best habitat is not safe to go to [during daylight].

 

[Bgoodman30]

Well if you do some simple math and if there is roughly 120k ducks(easily could be more) in Tennessee then that's .001 % of ducks that are GPS banded. Then 10% of those are killed on a Tuesday? I was kind of being facetious when I said alarming but still seems like a high harvest rate. I guess we will see how the rest of the season looks?