gil1
Well-Known Member
As a confirmed and proud lower class outdoorsman (I fish for carp on purpose), I will come boldly out and admit that I blow stuff up even if it tastes like crap. I am well known for shooting point-blank at coots dabbling in front of the decoys just as the sun rises. I have never actually hit one, but I have accidentally sunk several decoys this way.
I like to pound shovelers too (we call 'em "smallards"). They taste like crap, but they are the only species dumb enough to come to my calling.
True story - I'm a surf and turf kind of guy. If I'm hunting big water (not really for the pit and rice field scenario), I'll make a fishing hand line out of decoy cord and toss out some bait for carp and catfish. It is a ball especially if hunting sux. It wasn't funny when Chaucer, my uncle's Chessie, got a 2/0 hook in his leg. Man, that was a serious cluster! I had to clean guns and break ice the rest of the trip.
So what kind of duck hunter are you?
I like to pound shovelers too (we call 'em "smallards"). They taste like crap, but they are the only species dumb enough to come to my calling.
True story - I'm a surf and turf kind of guy. If I'm hunting big water (not really for the pit and rice field scenario), I'll make a fishing hand line out of decoy cord and toss out some bait for carp and catfish. It is a ball especially if hunting sux. It wasn't funny when Chaucer, my uncle's Chessie, got a 2/0 hook in his leg. Man, that was a serious cluster! I had to clean guns and break ice the rest of the trip.
So what kind of duck hunter are you?