Is a camouflaged gun important for duck hunting?

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My buddies want to take me out duck hunting for the first time this next season. I want to get a new shotgun for it but I don't know how important a camouflaged gun is. I have read different sides on other web hits but what is CGN's take?
 
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maybe with todays ducks.........but 15 plus years ago hunters weren't even wearing camo yet they still got their game.......I think camo is more of a state of mind then a neccessity in the field..........
 
sunborn said:
My buddies want to take me out duck hunting for the first time this next season. I want to get a new shotgun for it but I don't know how important a camouflaged gun is. I have read different sides on other web hits but what is CGN's take?
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I never hunted with a camo'd gun and take as many birds as anyone else with my vintage SXS guns and my 20 O/U.
Movement and blind set up/location is by far the biggest thing I worry about .
Cat
 
It's not that important. If you are in a blind hunting ducks you are invisible to flying ducks(as long as you are still), the shotty will only be visible when its time to "TAKE EM". It's more important to camo your shiny face and hands.

They certainly look cool but in my experience, camo on the gun is unnessesary. .
 
As Cat said, it is sudden movement that ducks detect. Ducks have been taken for 300 years without a camo gun and they will continue to be taken without a cammo gun. It is all a selling ploy so people will want the latest and greatest.
 
Depends where you're at.

In good cover in the grass/weeds its a non issue.

In the open fields I've been hunting the ducks and geese get spooked real easy, and if your gun isn't camo you make sureits out of site.

All comes down to your setup.
 
I've never used a camo'd gun for fowl. I don't think it is needed but it certainly won't hurt your odds either.
 
If you are buying new I would buy camo for the simple reason they retain their value better for resale and sell quicker if you ever decide to move it.
Also it is not going to hurt you for sure having a camo gun in a duck blind.
 
I don't have a camo shotgun yet and I doubt its ever made a difference, but I will be looking for another duck gun and it will be a camo one because I just happen to like the look more than anything.
I'm keeping my eye open for a camo Benelli Super Nova.
 
Humans have 3 kinds of color receptor in the retina, birds have 4, with UV capability. So, unless the camo was designed by a duck, it probably stands out like a dayglo sore thumb.

Jane, S.D. & Bowmaker, J.K. 1988. Tetrachromatic colour vision in the duck (Anas platyrhynchos L.): microspectrophotometry of visual pigments and oil droplets. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology 162: 225-235.
 
Juster said:
Humans have 3 kinds of color receptor in the retina, birds have 4, with UV capability. So, unless the camo was designed by a duck, it probably stands out like a dayglo sore thumb.
Jane, S.D. & Bowmaker, J.K. 1988. Tetrachromatic colour vision in the duck (Anas platyrhynchos L.): microspectrophotometry of visual pigments and oil droplets. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology 162: 225-235.
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I have been out in the marsh and have observed different times hunters set up across from me. I noticed their cammo guns move just as easy as the next gun. I could also see glare off of them when the sun hit them right. If I noticed them, I'm sure the ducks did. That being said, I don't know how many times I have been out in the canoe picking up downed ducks only to have ducks fly right by the canoe or land in the decoys while I was picking up. So who really knows why a duck chooses to come into you or not come into you.
 
Juster said:
Humans have 3 kinds of color receptor in the retina, birds have 4, with UV capability. So, unless the camo was designed by a duck, it probably stands out like a dayglo sore thumb.
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I've heard today's high-tech tactical ducks have at least 5 colour receptors, to detect modern camouflaged shotguns. Your only hope is to use duck urine spray (in the hunting store next to the doe urine) to coat the gun, which cuts down the tell-tale camo glare.

Or so I've heard.
 
I don't like the camo guns, hate the look of them when the camo peels or gets scratched. And, how the heck do you oil them? Waste of money IMHO... Buy a wood or synthetic stocked gun, go hunting!

Oh, I guess I should say which two guns I use for waterfowling.

(1) Baikal MP153 with a 24 inch barrel, synthetic stocked.
(2) Benelli Nova with a 26 inch barrel, synthetic stocked.
Both guns almost always run with the IC choke installed, 95% of the time.

And ammo, I use 3.5 inch shells loaded with 1&3/8oz of #2's going 1550fps, kills geese & ducks DEAD!

Cheers
Jay
 
On a sunny day you can see the glare of my buddies Citori from a kilometre away. If you're hiding in a blind, this obviously won't be a problem, but if you're not concealed, it will be. He still gets plenty of ducks.
 
gunsaholic said:
I have gone back to mainly 2 3/4" shells in the last 2 years.
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same here
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