ducks!!!! - The Firearms Forum

68c15 · 09-20-2012, 07:46 AM

our season opens next weekend.

just what I need. another reason to be up early on weekends.

so now my options are
walleye
crappie
perch
northerns
ducks
geese
doves
and in 3 weeks we start pheasant

I find myself spending the week days planning my weekend and my wife's head is starting to spin. "you're going for ducks? I thought you were going for perch" "well, I am doing ducks first. then if it gets slow I will try for crappies and northerns later before the evening when the geese come in. see you Monday morning"

carver · 09-20-2012, 08:03 AM

For 30+ years that's the way I lived my life too. But my list was longer than yours.

crappie
perch
bass
spoon bill cat
crawfish
ducks
geese
dove
pheasant
frogs
squirrels
coons
deer
hogs
turkey
and a few other things that I grew up eating in LA. A cajun will eat anything, so the saying goes!

wv hillbilly · 09-20-2012, 08:16 AM

aint life grand

hstout1143 · 09-20-2012, 09:43 AM

Lucky! i those are great choices to have.

Zhurh · 09-20-2012, 10:59 AM

We don't hunt ducks in the fall, only in Spring before ice out on the Yukon. It's a seasonal thing that the Whites learned off the Indians. Ducks don't have anywhere to land as no open water in the river, but most small ponds have melted off by early May so it's polluted with mallards, diving ducks, and cranes along shoreline. People eat duck for a few weeks. Nobody has ever heard of duck stamps, limits, or fall hunting. A few years back, some new fed park guy said the spring duck hunting had to end, was illegal; was laughed at by everybody as they had always hunted Spring ducks as far back as anybody could remember. Nothing came outta the fed guys idears and people still shoot all kinds of ducks right before ice out.

If Americans only woke up to what power they really have over Government, we would have a better country; but I doubt they ever will.

Carne Frio · 09-20-2012, 11:08 AM

Feds in the bush is kind of like "a duck out of water";
not their normal habitat and are not welcomed with
open arms.

09-20-2012, 07:46 AM	#1
68c15 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 2,048	ducks!!!! our season opens next weekend. just what I need. another reason to be up early on weekends. so now my options are walleye crappie perch northerns ducks geese doves and in 3 weeks we start pheasant I find myself spending the week days planning my weekend and my wife's head is starting to spin. "you're going for ducks? I thought you were going for perch" "well, I am doing ducks first. then if it gets slow I will try for crappies and northerns later before the evening when the geese come in. see you Monday morning" __________________ I'll go defenseless when our leaders do the same -->

09-20-2012, 08:03 AM	#2
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,221	Re: ducks!!!! For 30+ years that's the way I lived my life too. But my list was longer than yours. crappie perch bass spoon bill cat crawfish ducks geese dove pheasant frogs squirrels coons deer hogs turkey and a few other things that I grew up eating in LA. A cajun will eat anything, so the saying goes! __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. Last edited by carver; 09-20-2012 at 08:04 AM..

09-20-2012, 08:16 AM	#3
wv hillbilly Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: mountains of wv. Posts: 2,016	Re: ducks!!!! aint life grand

09-20-2012, 09:43 AM	#4
hstout1143 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: California Contributor Posts: 1,734	Re: ducks!!!! Lucky! i those are great choices to have. __________________ NRA Life Member Kids that hunt and fish don't mug old ladies. "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." - Ronald Reagan "Deo Duce, Ferro Comitante", With God as my leader and my sword as my companion

09-20-2012, 10:59 AM	#5
Zhurh Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Upper Yukon, Alaska Posts: 1,807	Re: ducks!!!! We don't hunt ducks in the fall, only in Spring before ice out on the Yukon. It's a seasonal thing that the Whites learned off the Indians. Ducks don't have anywhere to land as no open water in the river, but most small ponds have melted off by early May so it's polluted with mallards, diving ducks, and cranes along shoreline. People eat duck for a few weeks. Nobody has ever heard of duck stamps, limits, or fall hunting. A few years back, some new fed park guy said the spring duck hunting had to end, was illegal; was laughed at by everybody as they had always hunted Spring ducks as far back as anybody could remember. Nothing came outta the fed guys idears and people still shoot all kinds of ducks right before ice out. If Americans only woke up to what power they really have over Government, we would have a better country; but I doubt they ever will.

09-20-2012, 11:08 AM	#6
Carne Frio Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Near Fairbanks Posts: 697	Re: ducks!!!! Feds in the bush is kind of like "a duck out of water"; not their normal habitat and are not welcomed with open arms.