don novicki wrote: The bad thing about Michigan is that you have to buy the whole schmear for a license and thats over 150.00.
They actually changed that. Last year I believe.
https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-350-79119_79147_82102---,00.htmlWATERFOWL
License - $12.00
HIP registration/Migratory Bird Hunter - free (required for those who hunt migratory birds, including ducks, geese, woodcock, snipe, rails, etc.)
Federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp (Duck Stamp) - $28.00 (required for waterfowl hunters ages 16 and older)
*A non-resident 7-day ($80) or a non-resident 3-day ($50) small game license allows the purchase of a waterfowl license without the purchase of a base license
I haven't duck hunted except for opening day this year and that was more just to get together with my buddy than any real expectation of shooting a duck.
SpinnerMan wrote:If I am able to continue to work from home, I am going to try hunting some public land during the week. I was going to give it a try this year, but with all the bucks I was seeing on my camera and how few ducks were being taken. I was far happier sitting in a tree stand hoping for a buck than sitting in a blind hoping for a duck.
That's what I have done again so far this year as well. Illinois allows you to take 2 buck. I got a small one for the freezer. I'm hoping to get another one as well and would take a doe, but if I shoot another buck other than the last day or two I have to hunt for the year it will be a nice one.
I had a young one, maybe 4 or 5 pointer if you are really generous on the definition of a point at 10 feet, not yards, from me last night. The wind was wrong for my stand. So I decided to take a chair and cut a spot back in this thick clump of brush with a shooting lane south and east. He had no clue I was there, so I must have set up pretty good. That is until he circled around the brush and got down wind of me while still about 20' away. You could see the "oh shit" look on his face as soon as he hit my scent plume and realized I was so close
It was cool to have a little buck so close. If only it were one of the big ones that have been spotted in the area.
SpinnerMan wrote:My first big plan is an East Coast sea duck hunting trip.
We decided on Maine. All the guides we wanted were booked solid for this fall. So we are booked for next year. Instead we are heading to Lubbock, TX to hunt sandhill cranes this December. It's three days. I might try to push the guys to hunt geese on the third day. They get cacklers and a fair number of specks. I've never gotten either and really want to get a speck after watching so many during snow goose trips when there was nothing you could do but watch them.
