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Re: bluebills
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Wed Oct 02, 2013 12:05 am
by RonE
Flightstopper wrote:If I send you shells will you shoot more cormorants? Hate those Devils
Cormorants (Water Turkeys) are considered an exotic, along with pelicans, gulls, black birds, egrets, herons, terns and many other. You need a special license issued by Jack Daniels to shoot exotics.
Re: bluebills
Posted:
Wed Oct 02, 2013 12:17 am
by Bootlipkiller
RonE wrote:Flightstopper wrote:If I send you shells will you shoot more cormorants? Hate those Devils
Cormorants (Water Turkeys) are considered an exotic, along with pelicans, gulls, black birds, egrets, herons, terns and many other. You need a special license issued by Jack Daniels to shoot exotics.
We get our license from crown royal.
Sent from an undisclosed location on the river
Re: bluebills
Posted:
Wed Oct 02, 2013 6:24 am
by Flightstopper
RonE wrote:Flightstopper wrote:If I send you shells will you shoot more cormorants? Hate those Devils
Cormorants (Water Turkeys) are considered an exotic, along with pelicans, gulls, black birds, egrets, herons, terns and many other. You need a special license issued by Jack Daniels to shoot exotics.
The dos XX guy said I was fine
Re: bluebills
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Wed Oct 02, 2013 2:00 pm
by QH's Paw
Slingshot wrote:If your on Big water and there's big rafts of bills close by try and use as many decoys as possible , sometimes it hard to compete with a big raft of divers not far away from ware your hunting.One more thing If your not using longlines and your in shallows thats wadeable set you blocks up in a big circle no more than 35 yards across this will give your spead from a distance the apearance of a huge spead to the passing ducks. Also this gives the ducks a landing zone in the middle of circle and keep the birds well within range for your shots.At the head of the circle put more blocks as if the diver are feeding at the head of the circle , if you watch Bills on the water feeding they feed like this as they dive down they pop up futher forward in the group this is why I set the circle up like this. Don't be fooled keep you eye open I've shot Pintails , wigeon , mallards ,teal you name it off this cicrle while hunting divers you never know whats gonna show up during ya hunt so Good luck to ya .
WARNING ASSA: DON"T LOOK!
Yep, slingshot is absolutely right about puddlers showing up for the show at any given moment.
This spriq was shout over longlines while targeting BBs and GE.
Re: bluebills
Posted:
Wed Oct 02, 2013 6:07 pm
by NuffDaddy
That is a beautiful sprig. First one I shoot like that will be on the wall.
Re: bluebills
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Wed Oct 02, 2013 7:01 pm
by flight control
NuffDaddy wrote:That is a beautiful sprig. First one I shoot like that will be on the wall.
X2, but I doubt I'll ever see one that nice. They leave way too early.
Also, I might just be unlucky, but every time I've handled a pintail, I've had lice crawl up my arms. Is it just me or are they more prone to that than other ducks?
Re: bluebills
Posted:
Wed Oct 02, 2013 7:17 pm
by The Duck Hammer
flight control wrote:NuffDaddy wrote:That is a beautiful sprig. First one I shoot like that will be on the wall.
X2, but I doubt I'll ever see one that nice. They leave way too early.
Also, I might just be unlucky, but every time I've handled a pintail, I've had lice crawl up my arms. Is it just me or are they more prone to that than other ducks?
I usually find mites on mallards, only cleaned two pintails in my career and I think they was clean.
Re: bluebills
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Wed Oct 02, 2013 7:43 pm
by flight control
The Duck Hammer wrote:flight control wrote:NuffDaddy wrote:That is a beautiful sprig. First one I shoot like that will be on the wall.
X2, but I doubt I'll ever see one that nice. They leave way too early.
Also, I might just be unlucky, but every time I've handled a pintail, I've had lice crawl up my arms. Is it just me or are they more prone to that than other ducks?
I usually find mites on mallards, only cleaned two pintails in my career and I think they was clean.
A friend of mine had two or three make a run up his arms while plucking a goose a couple years ago. He went straight to the bathroom and spent the next hour shaving off every hair on his body.
Re: bluebills
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Wed Oct 02, 2013 7:59 pm
by NuffDaddy
The Duck Hammer wrote:flight control wrote:NuffDaddy wrote:That is a beautiful sprig. First one I shoot like that will be on the wall.
X2, but I doubt I'll ever see one that nice. They leave way too early.
Also, I might just be unlucky, but every time I've handled a pintail, I've had lice crawl up my arms. Is it just me or are they more prone to that than other ducks?
I usually find mites on mallards, only cleaned two pintails in my career and I think they was clean.
I don't think I've ever cleaned a early season duck without mites.
Re: bluebills
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Wed Oct 02, 2013 11:48 pm
by Bootlipkiller
I had a pintail sandwich on sourdough with swiss cheese for dinner. No mites!
Sent from an undisclosed location on the river
Re: bluebills
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Thu Oct 03, 2013 6:28 am
by Rick
Far as I can tell, all ducks are susceptible to bird lice. But most of the "rice breast" I've found has been in pintails. Maybe coincidence, maybe not.
Re: bluebills
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Thu Oct 03, 2013 6:40 am
by jehler
I think every shoveler we shot down in la had rice breast, and one mallard. Thank goodness the ducks don't have it here, they must pick it up in Arkansas
Re: bluebills
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Thu Oct 03, 2013 7:32 am
by DeadEye_Dan
jehler wrote:I think every shoveler we shot down in la had rice breast, and one mallard. Thank goodness the ducks don't have it here, they must pick it up in Arkansas
Back in an ill spent youth, I chased mallards and other trashy park ducks. I killed probably a dozen of them with it one year and can think of maybe one or two others in the last 20 years here in Michigan.
Re: bluebills
Posted:
Thu Oct 03, 2013 9:28 am
by flight control
I've had two black ducks with rice breast. But then again I pluck a lot of them and wouldn't know the difference. Those bastards gross me out.
Re: bluebills
Posted:
Thu Oct 03, 2013 6:13 pm
by Slingshot
The pintails I've shot here don't seem to have lice on them. I wasn't looking either. As far as the rice breast are spoonie's have it bad when they first get hear in florida , but after they have been here for some time it seems to be gone from them. I have some friends in arkansas that tells me that when there's a drastic change from warm weather to very cold weather , or vise versa is when they seem to notice the rice breat the mosts in spoonies and in some case mallards. Are weather here in florida will stay just about the same all season with a sudden drop intemps for just about 6 to 10 hours then back up again. Not sure if there's any facts to support what my friends have noticed, but this is just what they've picked up after 40 years of hunting the same 800 acre farm just down the road from claypool.
Re: bluebills
Posted:
Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:59 pm
by QH's Paw
I've only seen rice breast in mallards. Just another reason to be a seaducker and diver hunter.
Re: bluebills
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Fri Oct 04, 2013 9:20 pm
by DeadEye_Dan
QH's Paw wrote:I've only seen rice breast in mallards. Just another reason to be a seaducker and diver hunter.
That and you don't feel guilty when you see kids feeding mallards at the park
Re: bluebills
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Fri Oct 04, 2013 11:45 pm
by 3legged_lab
DeadEye_Dan wrote:QH's Paw wrote:I've only seen rice breast in mallards. Just another reason to be a seaducker and diver hunter.
That and you don't feel guilty when you see kids feeding mallards at the park
Tell us about guilt Mr banker man.
Re: bluebills
Posted:
Fri Oct 04, 2013 11:59 pm
by DeadEye_Dan
I sleep like a baby
Re: bluebills
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Sat Oct 05, 2013 12:09 am
by 3legged_lab
DeadEye_Dan wrote:I sleep like a baby
Haha. On piles of money.
Re: bluebills
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Sat Oct 05, 2013 5:51 am
by DeadEye_Dan
It's quite comfortable
Re: bluebills
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Sun Oct 06, 2013 7:22 pm
by flight control
3legged_lab wrote:DeadEye_Dan wrote:I sleep like a baby
Haha. On piles of money.
See, I'd make a terrible banker. I would have tried sleeping on the pile of cocaine instead of the pile of money.
Re: bluebills
Posted:
Sun Oct 06, 2013 10:38 pm
by RonE
flight control wrote:3legged_lab wrote:DeadEye_Dan wrote:I sleep like a baby
Haha. On piles of money.
See, I'd make a terrible banker. I would have tried sleeping on the pile of cocaine instead of the pile of money.
Drugs will get you through times with no money better than money will get you through times with no drugs.....
Re: bluebills
Posted:
Mon Oct 07, 2013 6:26 am
by Rick
Spoken like a child of the '60s.
Re: bluebills
Posted:
Sun Nov 24, 2013 10:28 am
by goosehunter64
Re: bluebills
Posted:
Mon Nov 25, 2013 1:35 pm
by Goldfish
Video?
Re: bluebills
Posted:
Mon Nov 25, 2013 1:37 pm
by Flightstopper
Goldfish wrote:Video?
Click the first one
Re: bluebills
Posted:
Mon Nov 25, 2013 1:40 pm
by Goldfish
Got it
Re: bluebills
Posted:
Mon Nov 25, 2013 3:00 pm
by goosehunter64
Glad you got it...
Re: bluebills
Posted:
Mon Nov 25, 2013 6:07 pm
by flight control
Nice video. Sadly, we missed them this year. I think my season might be over, still open for a month, but no birds left. We never even saw any goldeneye, which are usually so thick your knees get wobbly and your hands get sweaty as you drive by the bay. Literally a bird every four feet as far as the eye can see. It's been a strange year for ducks here.
The high point of my season was seeing a harlequin while sea ducking. What a beautiful bird.