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You moving to Texas?

Hum this ought to be interesting

A friend of mine looked at me last year and said I’m going to go where the ducks are, not where I want them to be.

I've decided, or at least almost decided that I will not be part of a lease next year but will be hunting different places with friends and family and hopefully a little public hunting up here on occasion like I did 15-20 years ago.

I was excited about the lease with the camp but it became obvious that we were hunting fields close to the X but it became obvious to me that we were getting very little of the overflow.

I wish I could still be on the old farm I hunted from 2014-2020 but that's not going to happen full time. I do hope to propose to the guys hunting there now that I could help improve their duck and speck spread and hunt with them occasionally.

I'd like to hunt with a buddy who does well on catahoula lake, I'd like to see that southeast Louisiana delta, and I hope to explore more of the central flyway including a planned trip to hunt public land in Kansas with my cousins.

I also enjoyed hunting public ground with my brother Corey this year and look forward to more of that.

Bottom line, don't want to put all my eggs into one basket.


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Kansas and Texas smart

That’s the conclusion we came to last year as well Eric. Having a lease is nice when fowl are present. Sucks wind otherwise and we spent more time on public than at our lease most years. Decided to give it up and go where they are. I’ll probably change my tine when my kids get old enough to go but until then, I’m staying mobile. Am looking at a trip to Oklahoma next year with a friend who has gone the last few years with fairly consistent success.

Haven't hunted public land in decades, but still can't get the banging and clanging of parties coming to crowd us shortly after LST out of my head. No idea why it's the sound so much more than the sight that's stuck so, but "public land hunting" still conjures it loud and clear.

Yea Rick there are places I won't go, but the places I hunted this past season weren't bad, and it won't be a regular thing.

I just can't see spending a couple grand on a place where I didn't kill enough ducks for a gumbo.


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Like your outlook, Eric. You'll do plenty of killin' and see different places with different people. Likely opportunity for you to come down my way sometime

That would be great, I've never been south of Thibodaux for any reason.


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That's a wrap. Who knows if most of these decoys will see any water next year.


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I know the feeling Eric. I have several that haven’t been deployed in a while

My worst season at farm in Jones was 171 birds in 15-16 when it was mostly just me and 1 other member, out of 1 pit.


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That hurts but once again, you aren’t alone.

Definitely understand if you don’t want to say on the interwebs, but did you mention why y’all went to the new lease this year? I very well may have missed it last offseason.

New decade...new farm and a camp.
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Basically the new owner was going to pick what pit we hunted each year and would have to negotiate water with farmer.


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Ah that makes sense.

Feel like today, tomorrow, and Saturday we'd have smoked them in the fields. Then next Friday or Saturday the thaw would have been fun. Maybe find some deep water in between.

Needed this back in December or first week of January.


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If you are considering going public think very hard about buying this and a laptop to go with it.
You never know where you may end up.
If you plan ahead your GPS has the site you chose to hunt already loaded in and scouted by you from home a year in advance. I'm not kidding.
My GPS has arkansas WMA's on it that are like pin cushions. I worked hard getting it that way.
The GPS comes with a one year subscription to the satellite imagery so the minute u have it get busy. You load it in yourself. GPS has no satellite imagery until you load it. This gadget is well worth the seemingly excessive cost.
Worth it so worth it.

I have an app I use and can make maps at work for that. I'd be hunting sage places I hunted in college.


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Ericdc wrote:I have an app I use and can make maps at work for that. I'd be hunting sage places I hunted in college.


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Sweet.
I get lost in the fog on a lake I've hunted since 1978.
GPS...follow track and I'm there. Never thought I'd use it the way I do it's a game changer big time for me.
In green timber it's gold and use the topographic part and you are the God of mallards.

I have locals texting me at home all season asking "can you wade at such n such" because of that gps and they don't even know I have one.

Ricky Spanish wrote:

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Has Birdseye ever updated for you?


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BGkirk wrote:

Ricky Spanish wrote:

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Has Birdseye ever updated for you?


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I don't know. I used it hard for a month. I bought the gps Jan 26th 2020. I loaded Oakwood bottoms in mid January 2021 and haven't used laptop since. I'd need to pay a subscription to load ...let's say Yellowstone for example.
Ive got so much on that gps it's hard to believe.

Actually bought the gps.
Went aw fuck I need computer.
Ordered a Dell from best buy.
$500. To put maps on my gps cost that much.
Did it the hard way maybe. The jealousy at the boat ramp is real. I dont get lost or stress one bitsy bit.
I know 200 holes locations and tracks on just one wma

More. Save it all to the computer and if you lose the gps you can just buy another and restore all your stuff.
Priceless

I make offline pdf maps and use them with Avenza maps app.


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Ricky Spanish wrote:

BGkirk wrote:

Ricky Spanish wrote:

16130710739801563686002707216151.jpg

Has Birdseye ever updated for you?


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I don't know. I used it hard for a month. I bought the gps Jan 26th 2020. I loaded Oakwood bottoms in mid January 2021 and haven't used laptop since. I'd need to pay a subscription to load ...let's say Yellowstone for example.
Ive got so much on that gps it's hard to believe.

I’ve had mine since 2013 or 14. The way I had to download maps was awful. Basically had to drawn an outline of what area you wanted to in aerial (outline wouldn’t download if it was too big, so I ended up with 5 different outlines to make one large map of the refuge I hunt). Then come to find out the aerial that downloads is ancient and useless (for my area). There is a place for everything though, whether it be phone or gps


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BGkirk wrote:

Ricky Spanish wrote:

BGkirk wrote:

Ricky Spanish wrote:

16130710739801563686002707216151.jpg

Has Birdseye ever updated for you?


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I don't know. I used it hard for a month. I bought the gps Jan 26th 2020. I loaded Oakwood bottoms in mid January 2021 and haven't used laptop since. I'd need to pay a subscription to load ...let's say Yellowstone for example.
Ive got so much on that gps it's hard to believe.

I’ve had mine since 2013 or 14. The way I had to download maps was awful. Basically had to drawn an outline of what area you wanted to in aerial (outline wouldn’t download if it was too big, so I ended up with 5 different outlines to make one large map of the refuge I hunt). Then come to find out the aerial that downloads is ancient and useless (for my area). There is a place for everything though, whether it be phone or gps


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it's work.
To get bayou meto took me a while.
The others too.
The maps are never new but the trees don't move.
I use topo and aerial both to find the right depth water.
For me it's valuable..I can show up and see the gauge that NOBODY KNOWS IS A GAUGE and know everything I need to know.

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