johnc wrote:Funny that is brought up but apparently females hunt all the time at a certain camp in NE Louisiana called MEGABUCKS
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johnc wrote:Funny that is brought up but apparently females hunt all the time at a certain camp in NE Louisiana called MEGABUCKS
johnc wrote:oh we not going there my friend --- but when there is a stage in a camp with a bar on the other side, complete with seating, hum? interesting
johnc wrote:in the erik rue hunt---did the guide just cluck?---they used to all do what we called the exploding chicken---too me sounds like a double cluck run started high and let down
or
did the guide use yodels,cluck,murmur,etc...
lot of his stuff the birds are already hot on the field---he knows what he's doing
when they are in that mode, you just steer them a hair and shoot,they break on the field on their own so you skip to finish sounds
johnc wrote:
that's what he was known for --- close kill shots in the hole--- but from what I understand even his hunting has dwindled over the past couple of years
Darren wrote:At an absolute minimum we will work on some divider bundles for next season, I even bought the materials for them this season but never got around to making them. Though the lid may be largely closed and grassed when just two or three hunters, the holes we do open are indeed usually more open than what would be ideal and most effective on geese studying the rig.
Darren wrote:For the marsh blinds we can get away with much taller cover using the prevalent salt bush and some roseau cane, no issues there.
Rick wrote:Darren wrote:At an absolute minimum we will work on some divider bundles for next season, I even bought the materials for them this season but never got around to making them. Though the lid may be largely closed and grassed when just two or three hunters, the holes we do open are indeed usually more open than what would be ideal and most effective on geese studying the rig.
Darren, you'll probably find that leaving blind covers on when hunting by yourself or even with one other man can turn the pit into an echo chamber that screws up your calling. And divider bundles are apt to produce unnatural square holes. Too many of our guys who've I've converted to bundles (after learning to use them from Matt Walsh's Eastern Shore cornfield pits in the early '80s) end up making grass logs: big (durable) bundles tied near both ends. Far better for concealment (and visibility out) to use a lot of small bundles tied only once in the middle and fanned out from that tie. Make enough that folks can pull some overhead and still see out through the fanned grass. Such bundles will need replaced more often as they break up from use, but serve a whole lot better in my experience.Darren wrote:For the marsh blinds we can get away with much taller cover using the prevalent salt bush and some roseau cane, no issues there.
Now that I'm in the marsh, the overhead cover portion of our speck (and big duck) puzzle is a whole lot more problematic, as bundles that roll off an ag pit and onto the levee when we stand to shoot would end up in the pond. Having all my cane loose and only held in place by cattle panels lets us pull some of it over the dark hole (which the camo painted curtains hanging inside of the pit help make smaller) when a party is willing and able can help, but crowd control remains huge when birds get overhead.
So it behooves me to do my level best to afford our far too few speck chances (but also big ducks) the calling slack to work down well out over the marsh, rather than inadvertently encouraging them to work overhead. Hard, hard, hard for me to maintain the discipline to do so with our area's gunfire clock ticking double-time in my head, but it's the only way we get to shoot our specks finishing at eye level, instead of chipping away at them high overhead.
Darren wrote:I was surprised by how wide open Clyde's blind was when I hunted it this season; wide open over the top and nothing propped forward or behind blind like what you use.
johnc wrote:in the erik rue hunt---did the guide just cluck?---they used to all do what we called the exploding chicken---too me sounds like a double cluck run started high and let down
Darren wrote:I was surprised by how wide open Clyde's blind was when I hunted it this season; wide open over the top and nothing propped forward or behind blind like what you use.
johnc wrote:---to me,if you are under traffic there is no reason why you should not be killing geese,period
Rick wrote:Tough to stop a feeding flight to ag land while sitting in the marsh.
Rick wrote:Even worse than being in a dry field late in the day when most birds are headed to roost.
Not an option I'm sure, but we built three small fields. They want fields, so we gave them fields.Rick wrote:it's gotten so marsh speck hunting is about the only speck hunting I've left, so we're working on improving it...
Rick wrote:Makes me wonder how late you hunt, Spinner, as I've had some of my very best Canada hunting later in the morning over water the birds wanted after feeding in dry fields.
Rick wrote:Darren wrote:I was surprised by how wide open Clyde's blind was when I hunted it this season; wide open over the top and nothing propped forward or behind blind like what you use.
Been plotting to exploit the little birds staying between Clyde and I, and was reminded of the above by the latest (12/1/17) in-season satellite shot:
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