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Up here in the U.P. last year I took more G/W teal than anything then Mallards after that. I hope it'll get colder sooner this year so the big ducks will swing through during the season.

Funny thing last year down in southeast Missouri where I hunt, our kills went like this as far as numbers go. Mallards, GWT, Gadwall, Spoonies , Woodies, Wigeon, Pintails and this was a bad year for us. During the 2010-2011 season our numbers went Gadwall, Spoonies, GWT, Mallars, Woodies, Wigeon. We killed a lot of mallards early on and hardly any late in the year. Usually it's the other way around, that dang warm weather really made it interesting.

For dabblers, probably take wigeon the most often. Mallards and pintail is probably second.

Greys by far and wigeon second

Mostly woodies for me. Never even pulled up on a mallard last year. They never got here.

Flightstopper wrote:Greys by far and wigeon second

Love me some greys. We got into them pretty good this year. We use to shoot the heck out of them in January but this year we hammered them for the first few weeks of the season.

Westie25 wrote:Mostly woodies for me. Never even pulled up on a mallard last year. They never got here.

Where are you from?


I get a lot of wood ducks behind my house.

About 25 miles north of Memphis. Right on the Mississippi river.

Is that the video with all the acorns?

Westie25 wrote:Is that the video with all the acorns?

filberts. also know known as hazel nuts.

duckkillerclyde wrote:

Westie25 wrote:Is that the video with all the acorns?

filberts. also know known as hazel nuts.

That's what I said. Lol. It's been awhile since I viewed it. I'm still not home so didn't have enough service to wait on it to loa.

duckkillerclyde wrote:

Flightstopper wrote:Greys by far and wigeon second

Love me some greys. We got into them pretty good this year. We use to shoot the heck out of them in January but this year we hammered them for the first few weeks of the season.

We pass on greys a lot just so we can fill our limit with what we consider cool birds. 4 man limit in 14 minutes is our record and was almost all greys. I do love hunting them when I take new people since those kamikazes make me look like I have all my chit together

It used to be majority Gads, last year it was a pretty good mix up of everything.

Mostly mallards here. Quite a few widgeon too. Thats really a majority of what we take. The occasional wood duck and gwt. Witnessed my buddy take the first goldeneye both of us had seen.

MOhuntingGuy wrote: Witnessed my buddy take the first goldeneye both of us had seen.

We get enough GE. I like how they whistle but that's about it. I've never been too awfully impressed by them. I rate them one step ahead of buffleheads.

Generally don't target them unless in a particular area where there is only scaup GE and buffles

All of that being said. I've never bagged a BGE. I've seen them flying but never got a shot at one.

Most recent years it's been bills and GEs. I'm at work, when I get home I'll look in my logbook and see what the exact mix was this past season.
Honestly, I'd rather they all be divers..........anyone can shoot park ducks.

QH's Paw wrote:Honestly, I'd rather they all be divers..........anyone can shoot park ducks.

welcome brother.

QH's Paw wrote:Most recent years it's been bills and GEs. I'm at work, when I get home I'll look in my logbook and see what the exact mix was this past season.
Honestly, I'd rather they all be divers..........anyone can shoot park ducks.

yup

Kinda embarrassed to post this but, here is the birds in order of most to least.
1. Mallards
2.Widgeon
3.Common GE
4.Blue bills (didn't seperate lesser and greater this season)
5.Bufflehead
5.Greenwing Teal
7.Gadwall
8.Pintail
9.Common Merganser
10.Surf Scoter
11.Canvasback
11.Hooded Merganser
13.Cinnamon Teal
13.Ring neck
13.Shoveler
13.Barrow's GE

I do shoot a fair amount of puddlers the first month to month and a half but, I usually stack diver numbers after that. It's been awhile since I had a park duck at the top of my numbers for the season.

Yeah, I'd be embarrassed too.

Watchout boys there are pansy puddle duck hunters among us!

JGUN wrote:Yeah, I'd be embarrassed too.

Watchout boys there are pansy puddle duck hunters among us!

What I don't understand is why the diver duck section is below the dabbler and goose sections.

I suggest they raise it directly under the blind section

duckkillerclyde wrote:

JGUN wrote:Yeah, I'd be embarrassed too.

Watchout boys there are pansy puddle duck hunters among us!

What I don't understand is why the diver duck section is below the dabbler and goose sections.

I suggest they raise it directly under the blind section

Maybe above the Blind, in it's rightful place at the top.

QH's Paw wrote:

duckkillerclyde wrote:

JGUN wrote:Yeah, I'd be embarrassed too.

Watchout boys there are pansy puddle duck hunters among us!

What I don't understand is why the diver duck section is below the dabbler and goose sections.

I suggest they raise it directly under the blind section

Maybe above the Blind, in it's rightful place at the top.

That and get rid of that mallard logo and put a damn scaup on it for crying out loud.

Maybe you should buy a server and start your own forum?

duckkillerclyde wrote:

That and get rid of that mallard logo and put a damn scaup on it for crying out loud.

Hey I spent like 10 min in photoshop on that logo.

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duckkillerclyde wrote:

QH's Paw wrote:

duckkillerclyde wrote:[quote="JGUN"]Yeah, I'd be embarrassed too.

Watchout boys there are pansy puddle duck hunters among us!

What I don't understand is why the diver duck section is below the dabbler and goose sections.

I suggest they raise it directly under the blind section

Maybe above the Blind, in it's rightful place at the top.

That and get rid of that mallard logo and put a damn scaup on it for crying out loud.[/quote]

I dont see what y'all think is so hard about shooting divers. Put out a group of blocks in a line and shoot them when they fly in. Easy!??!

We shoot scaup when the puddlers get slow

turn this duck into a black silhouette and use it.

Flightstopper wrote:
I dont see what y'all think is so hard about shooting divers. Put out a group of blocks in a line and shoot them when they fly in. Easy!??!

It's because they have to go out in the big scary water in their little tiny boats.


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