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SpinnerMan wrote:Do you call any different to those small groups in a field compared to over water?
They were just much less responsive than I would expect. Maybe that is just how it is.
johnc wrote:We kill a good many ducks with basically very few duck decoys and substantial goose decoys at times and the field not at all ideally set for ducks
DukMan wrote:I rely heavily on a feeding chuckle.. when they are heading my direction but look disinterested...
Maple leafing or cupped up... My call is silent
Swinging I send out a few single quacks... and tail feathers will get a series of (quack, quuuaaacckk, quuuuuaaaacccckkkk)
The trick is understanding the difference between a flare and just a normal swing... wailing out a comeback call or highball on swinging ducks will drive them off....
DukMan wrote:everyone and their brother in the marsh is wailing on their calls like there's some 90lb mallard sitting in the marsh
DukMan wrote:then taking 70 yard shots in fear the swinging ducks are heading to the next guys spread...
DukMan wrote:SpinnerMan wrote:The upside is I hunt a club...
I've always wondered what it was like to hunt a club... is it worth the money? I've never seen the appeal, nor the need in our neck of the woods...
aunt betty wrote:Toss me into that pay-to-hunt dynamic with guys who pay and it'd go to hell in a handbasket in two weeks.
SpinnerMan wrote:aunt betty wrote:Toss me into that pay-to-hunt dynamic with guys who pay and it'd go to hell in a handbasket in two weeks.
Both clubs are not rich people clubs. They are not pay-to-hunt or guided. They are really not that different than the local fire hall or any other type of social club. Just hunters making the best of how things are around here. You got a mix of people, but for the most part it is craftsmen and construction workers. The guy that runs the braidwood club is a fireman and just wanted to have a better set up around braidwood, so he created the club to pool resources and now instead of having one field for one group of guys, he has about 20 fields spread around. You would fit right in both.
This assumption that clubs are for the rich is simply not true. Obviously there are those clubs, but there are far more clubs like this that are just ordinary hunters that see the value of pooling resources so you can have a far better situation than they could ever by themselves. When you consider how much you spend on hunting, the cost is very small compared to the benefits. I hunt a lot more and put on far less miles than I would otherwise would.
aunt betty wrote:From what I hear Braidwood Hunt Club has a forty-acre field and that's it.
SpinnerMan wrote:aunt betty wrote:From what I hear Braidwood Hunt Club has a forty-acre field and that's it.
I don't really know anything about it. I don't believe it is a club, but a pay by the day guided hunt. Both clubs I'm in are do-it-yourself clubs. No guides, you are on your own. You don't hunt with anyone you don't want to hunt with. You want to hunt by yourself, you can.
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