Hat Is Done

[bill herian]

If I wasn't such a chickenshit, my coonskin cap would have an eagle feather hanging from the tail.

It's high time that BS is done away with. My girlfriend does a lot of volunteer work with kids in the outdoors and she's sick of telling kids they can't have the neat feather they found, without being able to give them a good reason.

[Tomkat]

If I wasn't such a chickenshit, my coonskin cap would have an eagle feather hanging from the tail.

They just arrested two dudes just south of Jarbo for...selling eagle feathers!!!

Maybe your celly would be Foiles and you could work on your calling. You done pissed off Sean Mann, you might as well take it out on someone who has it coming.

[assateague]

It's not like they're endangered, or even rare. I can look out my back door on almost any given day and see 5-10 of them munching on fox carcasses.

[Tomkat]

It's not like they're endangered, or even rare. I can look out my back door on almost any given day and see 5-10 of them munching on fox carcasses.

Well then man up and show us what ya got....

[banknote]

I floated the Babine River in BC a couple years ago and the eagles were like crows up there. Feathers everywhere. I had a handful to take home, but I chickened out before I hit the border and ditched them.

[MuddyWaterWarlock]

Assa, you should put an emu feather in your cap! Only you can rock that!

[Tomkat]

Assa, you should put an emu feather in your cap! Only you can rock that!

Now your taking!!

We have eagles here, too. I saw one over my rifle range last week. Neighbor has a new pup and it disappeared. I guess baldy has been hanging out near their house, and the speculation is the eagle carried off their pup.

[capt1972]

Sweeeeet

[jehler]

Wait, you can't shoot eagles?

[Tomkat]

Wait, you can't shoot eagles?

GKR and I call any birds you cant shoot "trouble birds"

Eagles are trouble birds

[banknote]

My dad gave me a wood duck call for Christmas. Now, I don't have much of a trained ear for what wood ducks sound like, so I went online and googled up as much as I could, which consisted of a handful of videos of guys demonstrating wood duck calls. They all had some similar qualities, but weren't really consistent enough to nail down what I should be trying to sound like. Figured I'd wait to hear some wild birds and try mimicking them.

Next time out hunting I hear these kind of squeaking/squealing sounds from a stand of tall fir trees down the slough, and I set to trying to make similar sounds with the wood duck call. Got to sounding pretty good! Then I realized I was chatting it up with a couple of bald eagles.

[rebelp74]

You can make a ton of differnt sounds with a wood duck call, depending on the style of it. Is it a reeded squealer type call? If so, the biggest thing is controling back pressure. Use your hand to do it. Choke the call all the way down and use taa-weeeet and you can get the whine sound. You really have to control the reed to get the whine. Use just tat to make the clucks, a quick little tat. Getting the reed to break over. Also do pretty much the same thing as you would in a pintail call to get little flutters. The sound they make when they are flying, they do not make on the water. I don't even use the squeal sound. Wood ducks make literally a ton of sounds. Once you figure out conrolling back pressure to get the whine, you are set on making all the sounds. Most woody sounds are whine type sounds.

[Goldfish]

The video on youtube that Jace Robertson does on using a wood duck call is pretty good

[banknote]

I can make some decent sounds come out of it, but i don't know how to piece them together or cadence. Most of the wood ducks I see come in low and fast out of nowhere, and either swing back around to get shot at or just beat it the hell outta there. Usually the latter. Maybe I should try wearing a wood duck hat.

[jehler]

I can make some decent sounds come out of it, but i don't know how to piece them together or cadence. Most of the wood ducks I see come in low and fast out of nowhere, and either swing back around to get shot at or just beat it the hell outta there. Usually the latter. Maybe I should try wearing a wood duck hat.

The spot is what's important with Woodrow's, the call not so much

[rebelp74]

I can make some decent sounds come out of it, but i don't know how to piece them together or cadence. Most of the wood ducks I see come in low and fast out of nowhere, and either swing back around to get shot at or just beat it the hell outta there. Usually the latter. Maybe I should try wearing a wood duck hat.

The spot is what's important with Woodrow's, the call not so much

x2 but when your spots off or the hole has been shot out, calls and decoys do make a difference.

[jehler]

I can make some decent sounds come out of it, but i don't know how to piece them together or cadence. Most of the wood ducks I see come in low and fast out of nowhere, and either swing back around to get shot at or just beat it the hell outta there. Usually the latter. Maybe I should try wearing a wood duck hat.

The spot is what's important with Woodrow's, the call not so much

x2 but when your spots off or the hole has been shot out, calls and decoys do make a difference.

Something I've never had to deal with, we get about a week at them and they move on out

[rebelp74]

I can make some decent sounds come out of it, but i don't know how to piece them together or cadence. Most of the wood ducks I see come in low and fast out of nowhere, and either swing back around to get shot at or just beat it the hell outta there. Usually the latter. Maybe I should try wearing a wood duck hat.

The spot is what's important with Woodrow's, the call not so much

x2 but when your spots off or the hole has been shot out, calls and decoys do make a difference.

Something I've never had to deal with, we get about a week at them and they move on out

We have residents and get migrators here. A ton of em. To the point I pass on them just to have the chance at getting other birds.

[Bufflehead]

Neighbor has a new pup and it disappeared. I guess baldy has been hanging out near their house, and the speculation is the eagle carried off their pup.

did UR move in next door?

[banknote]

I can make some decent sounds come out of it, but i don't know how to piece them together or cadence. Most of the wood ducks I see come in low and fast out of nowhere, and either swing back around to get shot at or just beat it the hell outta there. Usually the latter. Maybe I should try wearing a wood duck hat.

The spot is what's important with Woodrow's, the call not so much

x2 but when your spots off or the hole has been shot out, calls and decoys do make a difference.

Something I've never had to deal with, we get about a week at them and they move on out

We have residents and get migrators here. A ton of em. To the point I pass on them just to have the chance at getting other birds.

They like the filbert orchards around here and at least some of them stick around through the winter. I usually only see a few a day, where I see them.

[quackhead]

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That's a Sick hat! Oops sick in a gd way not the bleeding heart way

[QH's Paw]

Wait, you can't shoot eagles?

You can but, you don't want to get caught.

[Tomkat]

I can make some decent sounds come out of it, but i don't know how to piece them together or cadence. Most of the wood ducks I see come in low and fast out of nowhere, and either swing back around to get shot at or just beat it the hell outta there. Usually the latter. Maybe I should try wearing a wood duck hat.

The spot is what's important with Woodrow's, the call not so much

CASE IN POINT-
This early season me and my cousin and I crept along a creek bank and jumped like 50 woodies. I had heard of flocks like that, but didn't believe it until we did it. Woodies were flying everywhere. All gave some....some gave all.

We didn't need a woodduck call on that one.

[QH's Paw]

I can make some decent sounds come out of it, but i don't know how to piece them together or cadence. Most of the wood ducks I see come in low and fast out of nowhere, and either swing back around to get shot at or just beat it the hell outta there. Usually the latter. Maybe I should try wearing a wood duck hat.

One of the sloughs I hunt have woodies through most of the season. I've found 2 deeks work great toget them to land. The main sound I hear them make is an alarm whistle, it is easy to replicate but why would I want to alarm call.
You want to see a cool video, go to Duckkillerclyde's Utube videos and look for the one he counts how many philberts(hazelnuts) a bird he shot has in it's craw. It's amazing they canprocess those things and how many.

http://youtu.be/7Fpdv0wt8MQ

[assateague]

That reminds me of my very first duck hunt, with my grandfather, about 37 years ago. There was (is) a 2,000 acre swamp behind the house. My grandfather was a farmer, and saw hunting as something to put food on the table or to kill things which were taking food off the table. Wasn't really a hobby, so there wasn't a tremendous amount of concern for game laws We jumped what seemed like 100 woodies (but was probably more like 10), and I shot one. He shot a couple, and we went back to the house to clean them. It was a blast. Unfortunately, with the increase in farm fields and better drainage systems, the swamp is small to non-existent now, unless it's an incredibly wet year, and the woodrows have moved on to wetter pastures. I'll still get a small flock from time to time circling around sunset while I'm in a treestand, but going out to hunt them would be silly, because they're just not "reliable". Good times and good memories back in that swamp, though.

[Eric Haynes]

That reminds me of my very first duck hunt, with my grandfather, about 37 years ago. There was (is) a 2,000 acre swamp behind the house. My grandfather was a farmer, and saw hunting as something to put food on the table or to kill things which were taking food off the table. Wasn't really a hobby, so there wasn't a tremendous amount of concern for game laws We jumped what seemed like 100 woodies (but was probably more like 10), and I shot one. He shot a couple, and we went back to the house to clean them. It was a blast. Unfortunately, with the increase in farm fields and better drainage systems, the swamp is small to non-existent now, unless it's an incredibly wet year, and the woodrows have moved on to wetter pastures. I'll still get a small flock from time to time circling around sunset while I'm in a treestand, but going out to hunt them would be silly, because they're just not "reliable". Good times and good memories back in that swamp, though.

Hmmm, 37 years ago huh? They give licenses out at a pretty young age down there:lol::lol:

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[Tomkat]

That reminds me of my very first duck hunt, with my grandfather, about 37 years ago. There was (is) a 2,000 acre swamp behind the house. My grandfather was a farmer, and saw hunting as something to put food on the table or to kill things which were taking food off the table. Wasn't really a hobby, so there wasn't a tremendous amount of concern for game laws We jumped what seemed like 100 woodies (but was probably more like 10), and I shot one. He shot a couple, and we went back to the house to clean them. It was a blast. Unfortunately, with the increase in farm fields and better drainage systems, the swamp is small to non-existent now, unless it's an incredibly wet year, and the woodrows have moved on to wetter pastures. I'll still get a small flock from time to time circling around sunset while I'm in a treestand, but going out to hunt them would be silly, because they're just not "reliable". Good times and good memories back in that swamp, though.

If you were here in early season, I could about gurantee that flock will be in the same place...in fact, I am going to get after them again next season.
Woodies are one of the best tasting ducks, IMO. They sure are pretty.

[Redbeard]

I can make some decent sounds come out of it, but i don't know how to piece them together or cadence. Most of the wood ducks I see come in low and fast out of nowhere, and either swing back around to get shot at or just beat it the hell outta there. Usually the latter. Maybe I should try wearing a wood duck hat.

The spot is what's important with Woodrow's, the call not so much

CASE IN POINT-
This early season me and my cousin and I crept along a creek bank and jumped like 50 woodies. I had heard of flocks like that, but didn't believe it until we did it. Woodies were flying everywhere. All gave some....some gave all.

We didn't need a woodduck call on that one.

that's not real hunting. You should be ashamed of your tactics

[Tomkat]

I can make some decent sounds come out of it, but i don't know how to piece them together or cadence. Most of the wood ducks I see come in low and fast out of nowhere, and either swing back around to get shot at or just beat it the hell outta there. Usually the latter. Maybe I should try wearing a wood duck hat.

The spot is what's important with Woodrow's, the call not so much

CASE IN POINT-
This early season me and my cousin and I crept along a creek bank and jumped like 50 woodies. I had heard of flocks like that, but didn't believe it until we did it. Woodies were flying everywhere. All gave some....some gave all.

We didn't need a woodduck call on that one.

that's not real hunting. You should be ashamed of your tactics

You have obviousily never hunted snow geese.

And I am not ashamed, we let them get off the water and I shot drakes. Just for you, I may take my GoPro along next fall and show you how it is done.

If you REALLY wanted to school me, drag your scull out here and I will watch you in action.

[Redbeard]

I'm guessing you've missed the sarcasm. Ask Tiler, Boot or Gadwall, I ain't opposed to jumping