Rick wrote:Ericdc wrote:Rick wrote:Ericdc wrote:The number 1 factor they suggested for the change is rice production.
Might well account for some of it, but I'd even question "most". From a gunning standpoint, I've preferred once plowed fallow ground to rice for decades.
Right but gunning ground is not the same as holding ground right?
Not sure why it wouldn't be from the bird's standpoint, other than one having guns that keep them from holding there. Most everybody wants to lease rice, but it's not been the best hunting in my experience - just easier for humans to get around in than rough plowed fallow stuff.
Plowed ground puts a lot of the food underground, but your decoys might stand out a lot better to the birds making the hunting better. They aren't going to stick around in an area if there is no food. In the winter up here, I'd happily hunt a parking lot if it is snow covered. It doesn't matter what is below the snow. They can't tell from the air. Gunning will be better than picked corn with no snow on it. Snow covered is better than not. The decoys are just a whole lot more visible from a long ways off. Not sure if that plays into it or not. It definitely does up here. I put all my shells on motion stakes when there is no snow to improve visibility. I don't do that in the snow. I've added snow goose socks for no snow hunting to see if that increased visibility helps. Didn't hunt when there were geese and no snow so that experiment is still in progress.