Breakfast in the boat/blind

[flight control]

Well there you go. You hear that TK? Performance enhancing.

[Mornin Beef]

Well there you go. You hear that TK? Performance enhancing.

Only the first two shots. The rest will only get you babies, black eyes and blue balls

[BrewGUN]

Well there you go. You hear that TK? Performance enhancing.

It steadies the nerves!

[aunt betty]

Shooting is like pool for me. I shoot better when I'm drunk. Is it just me or is anyone else like that?

Not really but I understand how you probably do shoot better when drinking.

The enemy of a shotgunner is that thing that sits between the shoulders just above the neck.
I have found that anytime I "think" about the shot, I miss.
If I think "am I using the right shotsize", I miss. Right choke? Am I aiming the bead at the right spot? All those kinda thoughts at the time of firing will cause me to miss and probably you as well.

QUIT THINKING!!!

It's a point n shoot kinda thing that kills the ducks. (for me anyway)
I suspect being a little drunk slows your brain down and you forget to think. Something like that.

[flight control]

Thats right Betty. When I make a good shot, the whole thing seems like a blur. Didn't hear the shot, didn't hear my buddy shooting, didn't feel the recoil. Just me and the duck.

[assateague]

I agree 100%. I don't recall EVER missing a shot in any of those "HOLYCRAPWHEREDIDHECOMEFROM" throw the gun up and shoot situations. Now if only a pintail would sneak up on me.

[Tomkat]

AT, a couple of years ago I shot my first pintail...3 times in the same day. Only thing that would make it better would be if they were all banded.

When you shoot that first sprig, the clouds part, angels fly about and play calssical music. Its a religous experience that defies explanation.

If you would quit messing around and get to hunting, maybe you could experience it?

NEXT UP for me: my first drake canvasback. Jarbo invited me on a hunt last season that I knew would be good, but I had gone a lot that week and was about wore down. So I passed on it.

Sure enough, that fucker got my can drake, took a picture of it, and sent it to me.

I am sorry to say I wacked a couple of mergs this season hoping they were cans. Wont do that shit ever again.

You cant kill 'em on the couch.

[aunt betty]

Oh yeah?
Imagine getting a Bull Can and Bull Sprig within a minute.
I was so happy I dropped my camera into the water right after taking the picture. THEN I shot a drake widgeon.
Fucking got a Royal Flush but can't prove it. Went from cloud nine to aw fuck in minutes too.

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[Woody]

Thats right Betty. When I make a good shot, the whole thing seems like a blur. Didn't hear the shot, didn't hear my buddy shooting, didn't feel the recoil. Just me and the duck.

That is the key to being a good shot... treat the gun as an extension of your own body and let muscle memory do the work.

[assateague]

AT, a couple of years ago I shot my first pintail...3 times in the same day. Only thing that would make it better would be if they were all banded.

When you shoot that first sprig, the clouds part, angels fly about and play calssical music. Its a religous experience that defies explanation.

If you would quit messing around and get to hunting, maybe you could experience it?

NEXT UP for me: my first drake canvasback. Jarbo invited me on a hunt last season that I knew would be good, but I had gone a lot that week and was about wore down. So I passed on it.

Sure enough, that fucker got my can drake, took a picture of it, and sent it to me.

I am sorry to say I wacked a couple of mergs this season hoping they were cans. Wont do that shit ever again.

You cant kill 'em on the couch.

That merg I shot last year was blasted thinking it was a pintail.

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[Woody]

AT, a couple of years ago I shot my first pintail...3 times in the same day. Only thing that would make it better would be if they were all banded.

When you shoot that first sprig, the clouds part, angels fly about and play calssical music. Its a religous experience that defies explanation.

If you would quit messing around and get to hunting, maybe you could experience it?

NEXT UP for me: my first drake canvasback. Jarbo invited me on a hunt last season that I knew would be good, but I had gone a lot that week and was about wore down. So I passed on it.

Sure enough, that fucker got my can drake, took a picture of it, and sent it to me.

I am sorry to say I wacked a couple of mergs this season hoping they were cans. Wont do that shit ever again.

You cant kill 'em on the couch.

That merg I shot last year was blasted thinking it was a pintail.

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So mergs look just like pintails and just like cans, huh... very interesting.

[Tomkat]

AT,

We ought to see who can get what first. We dont get a lot of springs here, and not that many cans.

I never want to shoot another merg. Hooded or common.

The hooded was biteing the fuck out of karma as he retrivied it.

[assateague]

Not really. But when all you see are black ducks and buffies, with the occasional pintail, and you know pintails are in the area, a longer bodied duck with a very white neck and a darker head (and even a bit longer tail) will elevate my blood pressure every time.

[Tomkat]

Not really. But when all you see are black ducks and buffies, with the occasional pintail, and you know pintails are in the area, a longer bodied duck with a very white neck and a darker head (and even a bit longer tail) will elevate my blood pressure every time.

I have never seen a black duck. I guess it depends on the flyway.

[assateague]

Look just like a hen mallard. The underside of their wings are much whiter, IMO, but I've gotten in arguments about that before.

[jarbo03]

AT, a couple of years ago I shot my first pintail...3 times in the same day. Only thing that would make it better would be if they were all banded.

When you shoot that first sprig, the clouds part, angels fly about and play calssical music. Its a religous experience that defies explanation.

If you would quit messing around and get to hunting, maybe you could experience it?

NEXT UP for me: my first drake canvasback. Jarbo invited me on a hunt last season that I knew would be good, but I had gone a lot that week and was about wore down. So I passed on it.

Sure enough, that fucker got my can drake, took a picture of it, and sent it to me.

I am sorry to say I wacked a couple of mergs this season hoping they were cans. Wont do that shit ever again.

You cant kill 'em on the couch.

I shot a sprig that day too. Should have been there!

Sent from a gnarly phone with a kickstand

[aunt betty]

I shot a few black ducks before I figured out they weren't mallards.
I recall thinking something like, "how come this hen mallard has a drake's bill?".
If you catch yourself thinking that...start looking for white on the wings. NO WHITE is a black duck.

[DeadEye_Dan]

I hope to kill my first duck soon

[aunt betty]

Alright, that's IT. I have looked at so many coastal hunt pictures that I WANT TO DO IT ONCE!

Who lives the closest to Stuttgart, Arkansas and hunts coastal waters? Want to trade a hunt, two, or three...whatever.

[aunt betty]

I hope to kill my first duck of the season soon

FIFY. ME2!!!

[Woody]

Look just like a hen mallard. The underside of their wings are much whiter, IMO, but I've gotten in arguments about that before.

We have a few around here and the way I think I tell them apart is how dark brown they are, blacks are darker.

[aunt betty]

Never shot a black duck knowing it was black until after I picked it up.
Try really hard not to shoot brown ducks for that reason. The "who knows what kinda surprise you're getting" factor scares me bad.
Since I started hunting further south my duck ID skills went way up due to the frequency of seeing non-mallards.
For the first 10-15 years I hunted ducks, every single one I killed was a mallard. East-Central Illinois is a very poor location for hunting ducks. Took me a while to branch out and explore.

Can tell the species of every duck before I shoot now. If I don't know, I don't shoot.

[flight control]

Never shot a black duck knowing it was black until after I picked it up.
Try really hard not to shoot brown ducks for that reason. The "who knows what kinda surprise you're getting" factor scares me bad.
Since I started hunting further south my duck ID skills went way up due to the frequency of seeing non-mallards.
For the first 10-15 years I hunted ducks, every single one I killed was a mallard. East-Central Illinois is a very poor location for hunting ducks. Took me a while to branch out and explore.

Can tell the species of every duck before I shoot now. If I don't know, I don't shoot.

Most of the mallards I've shot were hens or juvies. I thought they were blacks. Even then, a lot of them were hybrids. Make a trip to Canada Betty. I'll take you on a coastal hunt you won't soon forget.

[aunt betty]

Never shot a black duck knowing it was black until after I picked it up.
Try really hard not to shoot brown ducks for that reason. The "who knows what kinda surprise you're getting" factor scares me bad.
Since I started hunting further south my duck ID skills went way up due to the frequency of seeing non-mallards.
For the first 10-15 years I hunted ducks, every single one I killed was a mallard. East-Central Illinois is a very poor location for hunting ducks. Took me a while to branch out and explore.

Can tell the species of every duck before I shoot now. If I don't know, I don't shoot.

Most of the mallards I've shot were hens or juvies. I thought they were blacks. Even then, a lot of them were hybrids. Make a trip to Canada Betty. I'll take you on a coastal hunt you won't soon forget.

I got caught chutin too many ducks therefore cannot go to that place with the weird hinged-head people like on Southpark.
The Robertsons can't go there either. Same with that Foiles guy.
Thanks tho.

[Tomkat]

Thats why you hunt snows!!


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