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That you don't need anymore decoys, just take a look at some. Thinking about adding 6 Widgeons and 6 shovelers. Maybe even a dozen divers. The duck fever is starting to creep up on me.

Really? Me too

What's a shoveler?

Do we have the shoveler bros. Over here?

Gadwalls are the ticket. Don't go anywhere without my gadwall decoy.

The Duck Hammer wrote:Gadwalls are the ticket. Don't go anywhere without my gadwall decoy.

All one of them? I guess that's all you need when you only shoot a couple ducks a year

Eric Haynes wrote:

The Duck Hammer wrote:Gadwalls are the ticket. Don't go anywhere without my gadwall decoy.

All one of them? I guess that's all you need when you only shoot a couple ducks a year

Yeah I only got one. Found that bitch somewhere.

Eric Haynes wrote:

The Duck Hammer wrote:Gadwalls are the ticket. Don't go anywhere without my gadwall decoy.

All one of them? I guess that's all you need when you only shoot a couple ducks a year

oh yea he went there

Piss off Red.

I've got gaddy dekes.

Currently I have 2 dozen FB Oversize mallards, 2 dozen mallard floaters, a dozen sprigs, half a dozen GW teal, and half a dozen gads.

Always room to improve; oh and Tom, fuck off.

R. Chapman wrote:I've got gaddy dekes.

Currently I have 2 dozen FB Oversize mallards, 2 dozen mallard floaters, a dozen sprigs, half a dozen GW teal, and half a dozen gads.

Always room to improve; oh and Tom, fuck off.

You need more teal. Always more teal.

The Duck Hammer wrote:

R. Chapman wrote:I've got gaddy dekes.

Currently I have 2 dozen FB Oversize mallards, 2 dozen mallard floaters, a dozen sprigs, half a dozen GW teal, and half a dozen gads.

Always room to improve; oh and Tom, fuck off.

You need more teal. Always more teal.

I believe it. Half the ducks I shot this year were teal. I was surprised they hung around till late October, early November.

R. Chapman wrote:

The Duck Hammer wrote:

R. Chapman wrote:I've got gaddy dekes.

Currently I have 2 dozen FB Oversize mallards, 2 dozen mallard floaters, a dozen sprigs, half a dozen GW teal, and half a dozen gads.

Always room to improve; oh and Tom, fuck off.

You need more teal. Always more teal.

I believe it. Half the ducks I shot this year were teal. I was surprised they hung around till late October, early November.

Teal are usually plentiful for is as well. Also they say the size difference gives a more lifelike appearance and the illusion of movement. Don't know how true that is though.

The Duck Hammer wrote:

R. Chapman wrote:

The Duck Hammer wrote:

R. Chapman wrote:I've got gaddy dekes.

Currently I have 2 dozen FB Oversize mallards, 2 dozen mallard floaters, a dozen sprigs, half a dozen GW teal, and half a dozen gads.

Always room to improve; oh and Tom, fuck off.

You need more teal. Always more teal.

I believe it. Half the ducks I shot this year were teal. I was surprised they hung around till late October, early November.

Teal are usually plentiful for is as well. Also they say the size difference gives a more lifelike appearance and the illusion of movement. Don't know how true that is though.

I don't worry about movement much. I normally won't even hunt blue bird days because there's no wind. If I do hunt blue bird days, I'm jump shoot creeks.

RMFC,
You should worry about decoy motion. It matters.

Also, I have killed a ton of ducks on bluebird days.

Glad to get ya jonesing for some ducks. You like geese?

Tomkat wrote:RMFC,
You should worry about decoy motion. It matters.

Also, I have killed a ton of ducks on bluebird days.

Glad to get ya jonesing for some ducks. You like geese?

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RMFC hunts the same ducks I do. Just stand out there and shoot.

Tomkat wrote:RMFC,
You should worry about decoy motion. It matters.

Also, I have killed a ton of ducks on bluebird days.

Glad to get ya jonesing for some ducks. You like geese?

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I love hunting geese but here it seems like everything has to be perfect. Only had a few occasions where that has happened. The last time was not this last Christmas, but the one before. Christmas day and there was a lot of people hunting for whatever reason on that day. Any ways, I doubt we would have gotten any attention if I didn't have my super mag shells out. We had only 30 decoys but the super mags can be seen from a long ways away. Short and sweet, we limited out in 45 minutes. Although I did get some geese this year, I wasn't targeting them.

R. Chapman wrote:

Tomkat wrote:RMFC,
You should worry about decoy motion. It matters.

Also, I have killed a ton of ducks on bluebird days.

Glad to get ya jonesing for some ducks. You like geese?

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I love hunting geese but here it seems like everything has to be perfect. Only had a few occasions where that has happened. The last time was not this last Christmas, but the one before. Christmas day and there was a lot of people hunting for whatever reason on that day. Any ways, I doubt we would have gotten any attention if I didn't have my super mag shells out. We had only 30 decoys but the super mags can be seen from a long ways away. Short and sweet, we limited out in 45 minutes. Although I did get some geese this year, I wasn't targeting them.

I'll always be a duck hunter at heart, but a good goose shoot is hard to beat. You don't have to do everything perfect to kill geese, but the times you do get everything right can be epic. If I were a better caller I would likely be about 50/50[TRADE MARK SIGN] ducks to geese, but until then I'll just resort to buying more decoys!

What happens when you do everything right:

Tk, the second photo from the top in the first series of photos you posted is a really neat picture.

bill herian wrote:Tk, the second photo from the top in the first series of photos you posted is a really neat picture.

Thanks. That was a very windy day at a farm pond. I shot my first Redhead that day (crushed him!) which is on the top of this picture.

sws002 wrote:

R. Chapman wrote:

Tomkat wrote:RMFC,
You should worry about decoy motion. It matters.

Also, I have killed a ton of ducks on bluebird days.

Glad to get ya jonesing for some ducks. You like geese?

ImageUploadedByTapatalk1398282942.621456.jpg

ImageUploadedByTapatalk1398282992.835459.jpg

I love hunting geese but here it seems like everything has to be perfect. Only had a few occasions where that has happened. The last time was not this last Christmas, but the one before. Christmas day and there was a lot of people hunting for whatever reason on that day. Any ways, I doubt we would have gotten any attention if I didn't have my super mag shells out. We had only 30 decoys but the super mags can be seen from a long ways away. Short and sweet, we limited out in 45 minutes. Although I did get some geese this year, I wasn't targeting them.

I'll always be a duck hunter at heart, but a good goose shoot is hard to beat. You don't have to do everything perfect to kill geese, but the times you do get everything right can be epic. If I were a better caller I would likely be about 50/50[TRADE MARK SIGN] ducks to geese, but until then I'll just resort to buying more decoys!

What happens when you do everything right:

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Yepp, have had a few days like that with geese but mainly with ducks in the early season is when I get the most limits. I'm the duck guy with all the decoys and another buddy I hunt with is the goose guy. I think that's my favorite thing is hunting ducks for the first 4 weeks of the season. Lots of bird, and I can wear a T-shirt with a layer of bug spray. And teal!

I've knocked a lot of species off the list in Kansas, but I'm still looking for the redhead. Seen em, just never got one.

I'm about to report you Tom for inappropriate pictures! It's the off season damn it! No need to be getting me hyped up this early! (Jealousy).

Sws002 I agree on the duck thing. But its always neat to totally fool a flock of geese and make the sky rain honkers. I was on a good shoot with Jarbo and GKR a couple years back where we fooled em and made em pay. Those are good pictures

bill herian wrote:I've knocked a lot of species off the list in Kansas, but I'm still looking for the redhead. Seen em, just never got one.

Didn't you shoot a hen red head on superior?

bill herian wrote:I've knocked a lot of species off the list in Kansas, but I'm still looking for the redhead. Seen em, just never got one.

I had them work me for two seasons and not finish. This one made a fatal error. Jarbo says they are easy to finish so maybe I am getting better?

RMFC, this is just to keep you interested!

Other than scaup, redheads are as easy as it gets to call in.

The Duck Hammer wrote:Other than scaup, redheads are as easy as it gets to call in.

yup

Easy to call in a heavily hunted public marsh?

Tomkat wrote:Easy to call in a heavily hunted public marsh?

Cant answer that one.

The Duck Hammer wrote:

Tomkat wrote:Easy to call in a heavily hunted public marsh?

Cant answer that one.

Me either. Two years ago in NoDak we could not keep those fuckers out of our spread. I'm not exaggerating in the least when I say we could have killed over 100 the last two days. Got kind of aggravating actually, watching prime drake redheads swim around in your spread, damn near made a poacher out of me!