Is a camouflaged gun important for duck hunting?

badgreenbird said:
I don't use 3.5" shells and only late season do I bother with 3"
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gunsaholic said:
I have gone back to mainly 2 3/4" shells in the last 2 years.
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I agree, 3.5 inch shells are not needed... But, with the mix of geese & ducks, combined with early season, late season, pass shooting, shooting over decoys, field hunting etc, the 3.5 inch shell carries the most pellets & allows me to simply run with ONE shell all season...

Cheers
Jay
 
You don't need it but if you have the extra cash to get a camo model I say go for it, I find the camo finish is more rust resistant. I wish I had spent the extra for that reason only
 
Jay said:
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
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I am wondering if it is more the make of guns you use Jay. I have three brownings with camo and one winchester and no issues at all with the camo coming off. The winchester is a X2 and has seen it's fair share of hunting, one browning gold has to be 15 plus years old also.
 
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Camo is not needed for your duck hunting gun. I use a blued and wood with silver reciever Browning Silver Hunter and I don't think I've ever had it affect my ability to get birds. Remaining still and keeping your shiny face down or coverred and using natural cover will get you much further then buying a camo gun.
If someone wants to buy me an 870 express I'll paint the stocks whatever colour they want and we'll see how it impacts my ability to kill ducks.
 
Camo is everything! Go buy it you'll be happier looking at it. No one likes walnut and blue.

I like my synthetic SX3 because the camo is purdy and it is nice and grippy and I don't care I water mud dirt or even if I drop it in the water.

I have a few nice walnut and blue guns for fancy upland hunting that isn't around water.
 
I used to have a chocolate Lab that could scoop live ducks out of the pond somehow. No camo. We'd find him wandering around with a live duck in his mouth, pry it open and put the duck back in the water. No harm, no fowl.
 
Just like any other kind of hunting, Duck & Goose hunting success is mosty about how you apply your tools and skills, not about the equipment itself.

I prefer walnut stocks and high polish blue. I will concede that a matt metal finish is likely a smarter choice because sunlight reflecting off of a highly polished barrel or receiver does spook ducks. But on a bright sunny day, nearly everything spooks ducks! I kill more ducks and geese than most people I know, and do it all with blued / walnut / 2-3/4" shells.

But if you like camo coated 3.5" plastic stocked guns, they kill ducks very well too. If you like blued steel but have second thoughts, they make perfectly serviceable no-mar camo tape for folks like you. Hunt waterfowl with camo, then fondle your beautiful gun at home or in the uplands.
 
True story. A buddy left his camoed Beretta laying in the cattails to wade out and pick up a close killed hen mallard. After an hour with both of us looking he stepped on it. I have to say camo sure worked that day.

Darryl
 
madtrapper143 said:
True story. A buddy left his camoed Beretta laying in the cattails to wade out and pick up a close killed hen mallard. After an hour with both of us looking he stepped on it. I have to say camo sure worked that day.

Darryl
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Humm being a Beretta did he say under his breath DAM you Darryl for finding it now I cannot buy that nice new browning maxus. ;);)
 
Longwalker said:
Just like any other kind of hunting, Duck & Goose hunting success is mosty about how you apply your tools and skills, not about the equipment itself.

I prefer walnut stocks and high polish blue. I will concede that a matt metal finish is likely a smarter choice because sunlight reflecting off of a highly polished barrel or receiver does spook ducks. But on a bright sunny day, nearly everything spooks ducks! I kill more ducks and geese than most people I know, and do it all with blued / walnut / 2-3/4" shells.

But if you like camo coated 3.5" plastic stocked guns, they kill ducks very well too. If you like blued steel but have second thoughts, they make perfectly serviceable no-mar camo tape for folks like you. Hunt waterfowl with camo, then fondle your beautiful gun at home or in the uplands.
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What he said, but ducks around here prefer Camo cause I can't hit any they won't let me lol
 
10-15 years ago I would have never thought I'd be hunting with a Camo Gun...but now I almost don't feel comfortable Waterfowling using anything but. I have a Remington 870 Special Purpose that must be 7-8 years old and it looks and works A1, bought a new Extrema 2 last year and it is hands down one of the best purchases I have ever made.

The camo finish on both of my guns is very durable and makes the gun pretty much weather proof; Salt Marshes and Potato Fields in prime Duck and Goose hunting Weather will make you a believer of a coated gun.

Don't get me wrong I love my polished blued, walnut stocked shotguns...more so on a nice sunny day walking through the woods looking for grouse and rabbits though.

Couple cell phone pics of from last fall:

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