Ducks vs. Geese?

[Woody]

Nope, 200 flying right up in your face 10 yards away is just cool.

What about having 200 land right in your face less than 15 feet away.
Have you ever had a large flock so close you could feel their wing beats?

[goodkarmarising]

I will pass up ducks to chase snow geese any day of the week. Its a terrible addiction.

[aunt betty]

Nope, 200 flying right up in your face 10 yards away is just cool.

What about having 200 land right in your face less than 15 feet away.
Have you ever had a large flock so close you could feel their wing beats?

It's a rush. The last few hunts I got where for kicks I'd try calling them in the dark as soon as I hear wings. They'll land right on top of you. They pick their way thru the trees in the star light. Amazing.

[vincentpa]

I like hunting both. I prefer to eat ducks over geese. But I am an equal opportunity killa.

The most important thing is to have a proper gangsta hat on when you hunt them.

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Killa! Morherfuckin killa!

[Woody]

Nope, 200 flying right up in your face 10 yards away is just cool.

What about having 200 land right in your face less than 15 feet away.
Have you ever had a large flock so close you could feel their wing beats?

It's a rush. The last few hunts I got where for kicks I'd try calling them in the dark as soon as I hear wings. They'll land right on top of you. They pick their way thru the trees in the star light. Amazing.

One of my most memorable hunts happened just last year. Before light on a very small creek maybe 15 feet across. We had multiple groups of 50+ try to land, but the creek is so narrow they were forced to wait their turn and they seemed to hover right over heads for minutes. Some of them I swear I could have reached out and touched.

[Redbeard]

Ducks, ducks, ducks! But it is easy to pass up a duck hunt for a good goose hunt. Goose hunting is too equipment intensive for me. Give me 5-10 doz duck decoys a boat and a shotgun and something to eat and drink and I'm duck hunting. Give me a 4 wheeler, about 1000 rags to put out and pick up, a layout blind and I'm goose hunting, much more work.

I'm with ya here Ron. The simplicity of duck hunting is appealing. As is, as stated above, watching the sun rise over the water

You haven't experienced simplicity until you drive into a field, set out the decoys and blinds and you're good to go. Plus the sunrise can be just as good out of a field.

i do that all the time. Setting out two dozen full bodies is no where near as simple as throwing out two dozen floaters. Clearly it's a matter of opinion

[Redbeard]

Ducks definitely. I've been on a few goose hunts were we all limited out in half an hour. That's alright but but jump shooting ducks is just fun.

no way jump shooting is more fun that decoying

Its a different kind of fun, like banging the preachers daughter (and her sister)

I only jump snows btw.

Red, it's the funnest thing when you jump 200 ducks off a little pool in a creek. That's excitement.

Kid. Its funner to land 200 ducks.

if I knew 200 ducks were loafing on a little pool in a creek, I'd come back and set up there the next day

[aunt betty]

Nope, 200 flying right up in your face 10 yards away is just cool.

What about having 200 land right in your face less than 15 feet away.
Have you ever had a large flock so close you could feel their wing beats?

It's a rush. The last few hunts I got where for kicks I'd try calling them in the dark as soon as I hear wings. They'll land right on top of you. They pick their way thru the trees in the star light. Amazing.

One of my most memorable hunts happened just last year. Before light on a very small creek maybe 15 feet across. We had multiple groups of 50+ try to land, but the creek is so narrow they were forced to wait their turn and they seemed to hover right over heads for minutes. Some of them I swear I could have reached out and touched.

Its why we go every day. Whistling wings at the time of morning where you can literally feel the earth take a breath just at LST.
It's very exciting.

[R. Chapman]

True but imagine sitting or standing by a tree kicking water to make little ripples while flat out wailing on your duck call and getting the 200 to land within gun range.

Betty, you have no idea how much I want to hunt in flooded timber, it beats my "want" to hunt sea ducks off the coast; that's saying something.

[MNkid7]

Ducks, ducks, ducks! But it is easy to pass up a duck hunt for a good goose hunt. Goose hunting is too equipment intensive for me. Give me 5-10 doz duck decoys a boat and a shotgun and something to eat and drink and I'm duck hunting. Give me a 4 wheeler, about 1000 rags to put out and pick up, a layout blind and I'm goose hunting, much more work.

I'm with ya here Ron. The simplicity of duck hunting is appealing. As is, as stated above, watching the sun rise over the water

You haven't experienced simplicity until you drive into a field, set out the decoys and blinds and you're good to go. Plus the sunrise can be just as good out of a field.

i do that all the time. Setting out two dozen full bodies is no where near as simple as throwing out two dozen floaters. Clearly it's a matter of opinion

Very true.

[aunt betty]

True but imagine sitting or standing by a tree kicking water to make little ripples while flat out wailing on your duck call and getting the 200 to land within gun range.

Betty, you have no idea how much I want to hunt in flooded timber, it beats my "want" to hunt sea ducks off the coast; that's saying something.

It's fun but repetitive and eventually you'll want to lay in one of them tiny midget 'jehler' boats. lol

[Rick]

I will pass up ducks to chase snow geese any day of the week. Its a terrible addiction.

I put out, and picked up, huge white spreads for blues and specks most open season mornings, and a heck of a lot of afternoons, for the better part of two decades, generally killed them 30 or 40 to as many as 100 at a clip, and came to absolutely crave duck hunting. Toss a few decoys, hide and call well, and here the ducks come, pretty as you please. No bird is more call responsive than a mallard and no waterfowl more fun to gun than greenwing teal.

But for the past eight seasons I've hunted a duck blind in the marsh and have had a lot of fun with it, except for its scarcity of specks, which I now find myself craving more with each passing year. Our specks seem to me a "just right" blend of wariness and susceptibility, the ideal caller's quarry. And I feel blessed to get to hunt them afternoons, even if they don't generally fly well then, and after ducks have closed, when they've PhDs tucked under their wings.

I'm almost tempted to swap my marsh hole for a good combination field blind - but I know I'd too soon be missing the marsh, itself.

[Rick]

True but imagine sitting or standing by a tree kicking water to make little ripples while flat out wailing on your duck call and getting the 200 to land within gun range.

Betty, you have no idea how much I want to hunt in flooded timber, it beats my "want" to hunt sea ducks off the coast; that's saying something.

It's fun but repetitive and eventually you'll want to lay in one of them tiny midget 'jehler' boats. lol

Real green timber hunting on a crisp, clear morning when the ducks are down and falling in like bright leaves is something all God's waterfowlers should experience. But when it ain't working, and the new of your buddies' voices echoing off the wood and water and just being part of such a hallowed scene wears off, the view can get entirely too familiar.

[AKPirate]

True but imagine sitting or standing by a tree kicking water to make little ripples while flat out wailing on your duck call and getting the 200 to land within gun range.

Betty, you have no idea how much I want to hunt in flooded timber, it beats my "want" to hunt sea ducks off the coast; that's saying something.

It's fun but repetitive and eventually you'll want to lay in one of them tiny midget 'jehler' boats. lol

Real green timber hunting on a crisp, clear morning when the ducks are down and falling in like bright leaves is something all God's waterfowlers should experience. But when it ain't working, and the new of your buddies' voices echoing off the wood and water and just being part of such a hallowed scene wears off, the view can get entirely too familiar.

Love timber hunting and love hunting ducks in sagebrush as well.

[hudson]

Love hunting coastal marsh

[aunt betty]

That is intriguingly tempting to try that coastal marsh stuff but I know better. The tide would kick my ass.

[hudson]

That is intriguingly tempting to try that coastal marsh stuff but I know better. The tide would kick my ass.

No tide.

[hudson]

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[hudson]

Our split closed so we went where it wasnt

[aunt betty]

DeWitt huh...
Did you get that hat at macks while you wuz dere?

[Rick]

Lot of Louisiana boys migrate north to hunt mallards and specks in Arkansas. Friend who also leases from us is in a camp up there and is fond of pointing out that his speck calls are "tuned for Arkansas," but I suspect that will change as more and more folks start targeting them there.

[hudson]

DeWitt huh...
Did you get that hat at macks while you wuz dere?

huh no had it before that but can't remember where from

[hudson]

Lot of Louisiana boys migrate north to hunt mallards and specks in Arkansas. Friend who also leases from us is in a camp up there and is fond of pointing out that his speck calls are "tuned for Arkansas," but I suspect that will change as more and more folks start targeting them there.

it was fun.held us over till our second split

[assateague]

You guys are aware that geese land in water too, right?

[hudson]

You guys are aware that geese land in water too, right?

Who me ya that's where I kill the majority of specklebellies

[aunt betty]

Ducks are like fighters while geese are more like bombers so I'm picking ducks to win the ducks vs. geese war.

[assateague]

You guys are aware that geese land in water too, right?

Who me ya that's where I kill the majority of specklebellies

Nah, just in general. Everyone seemed to be saying that they didn't want to drive out into a field and set decoys. Nothing like watching and hearing a goose splash down in the bay.

[hudson]

You guys are aware that geese land in water too, right?

Who me ya that's where I kill the majority of specklebellies

Nah, just in general. Everyone seemed to be saying that they didn't want to drive out into a field and set decoys. Nothing like watching and hearing a goose splash down in the bay.

gotcha

[GadwallGetter530]

You guys are aware that geese land in water too, right?

that's where I kill most of my specs.

[GadwallGetter530]

You guys are aware that geese land in water too, right?

Who me ya that's where I kill the majority of specklebellies

Ha!:lol: