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If zero were being killed I would say that is alarming. Realistically if more get killed it means the ducks are moving. If none are getting killed it means they are not moving much or at all.2 more killed today..
That was just from one of our blinds yesterday... I am a numbers person and the backpacks are still rare and very low odds of getting one but it doesn't seem that way? Yes ducks are moving rather than sitting on the refuge this year I guess.If zero were being killed I would say that is alarming. Realistically if more get killed it means the ducks are moving. If none are getting killed it means they are not moving much or at all.
yeah, with these freeze-ups, all of the standing water got iced over. My buddies went on the river and killed limits also (funny, my phone never rang...). The thing is, you have to be well-equipped and crazy enough to run the big river under those kinds of conditions. That's a special kind of commitment to hunt ducks. I don't reliably have that kind of commitment, nor do I own a boat big enough to do it on my own.I don't duck hunt these days, but the friends of mine who have hunted the MS River last few days have had A LOT of success, some days killing up to six species in a hunt, and 5-6 man limits. Shotshell manufacturers are happy with this cold front.
Well the ducks are mostly only banded in 2-4 places all season long. If they trap ducks that are use to traveling together they will me more likely to get killed in the same place. I imagine the field they are killing several is close to a refuge that is a banding location.That was just from one of our blinds yesterday... I am a numbers person and the backpacks are still rare and very low odds of getting one but it doesn't seem that way? Yes ducks are moving rather than sitting on the refuge this year I guess.
I think these cold dry years are bad news for ducks..
Absolutely.Mot a duck hunter but i have a question- other than harvesting the duck, is there any special
Motivation to kill a banded or gps tagged duck?
Oddly enough I have killed two banded ducks with a total kill of probably 50 ducks in my life. I think I am an outlier.Absolutely.
I would equate it to killing a double drop tine buck.
Oddly enough I have killed two banded ducks with a total kill of probably 50 ducks in my life. I think I am an outlier.
I would trade one for a double drop tine buck any day.
I saw on the book of face the other day a guy killed his very first duck.Rare. Rare is a miner. I have hunted all my life, 50 plus years. I have 72 bands, 5 sets of reward bands. 31 collars. Never a Taurus. A miner is my dream.
I have only known if 1 jack miner killed in this area. I hunt with a group of guys that killed a hen Mallard with a Jack Miner band. They ended up drawing straws for it and a guy that had no clue what he had got it. He put it on his dog's collar and his dog is awful.Rare. Rare is a miner. I have hunted all my life, 50 plus years. I have 72 bands, 5 sets of reward bands. 31 collars. Never a Taurus. A miner is my dream.
I would have to call BS on that.I saw on the book of face the other day a guy killed his very first duck.
It was a double banded spoonie and one of the bands was a miner.
I wanted to tell him, quit now.
Found the original.I would have to call BS on that.