On The Water

Would you shoot ducks or geese while on the water?

  • Yes, It's all fair game

    Votes: 31 38.8%

  • No, That's not sporting

    Votes: 38 47.5%

  • Depends where I am hunting, (regional thing)

    Votes: 5 6.3%

  • I have before, but wouldn't now

    Votes: 7 8.8%
  • Total voters
    80
  • Poll closed .
"...It is just fine to take them on the water..." It's unethical and illegal in most places.
"...dont even care about limits..." That's poaching.
 
sunray said:
"...It is just fine to take them on the water..." It's unethical and illegal in most places.
"...dont even care about limits..." That's poaching.
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Illegal in most places !!! Do tell :confused:

Not worried about bag limits, Hmmm, I'm not worried about whether or not I get my limit, is that Poaching? :eek::confused::cool:


Again, where are these illegal water shooting areas?

Unethical,.... by another's standards only
 
sunray said:
"...It is just fine to take them on the water..." It's unethical and illegal in most places.
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Well aren't you completely ignorant of the waterfowling laws in Canada.


sunray said:
"...dont even care about limits..." That's poaching.
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Well wasn't that quote taken completely out of context. He meant that he doesn't care about getting a limit NOT that he exceeds them. TWIT!!!
 
I have "potted" ducks before but not anymore. The guys that hunt with us just don't. It is very tempting but no. I think it may be a regional thing as well. I had 2 guys from NFLD here last year, they hunt salt water & shot birds on the water all the time. we all hade a great time, killing a duck is not what is important, friendship is.
 
I am not aware of any Provinces where it is unlawful to shoot waterfowl on the water.
I simply wouldn't do it because I have no need to....
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x2.
It is legal,but I don't do it because I prefer to shoot ducks or geese on the wing.
 
Nowhere in Canada is it illegal to shoot ducks or geese on the water.\

Though there is a few select states that in their regulations say you are not supposed to shoot a duck while at "rest". So theres a huge grey area there, some consider it to be once they've landed and are swimming around they are at rest while others consider it to be when they stop moving on the water and just sit there. And others think that when they go to sleep is when they are at rest. I dont think this law gets used very much.
 
Still not one reference to any regulation making it illegal to shoot ducks or geese on the water.Well unless someone can post regulations that show that it's illegal to shoot ducks or geese on the water in most places,I guess that we can dismiss that idea as B.S..

First it was "supposedly" illegal to bait deer in B.C.,and now it is "supposedly" illegal to shoot ducks and geese on the water.

Please verify your facts before referring to "supposed" regulations.Opinions are fine,but don't try to pass them off as actual regulations.
 
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I alway hate it when rednecks shoot my decoys. Granted, I come from an area where waterfowl is not that good to eat, but why would anyone hunting for sport, want to shoot ducks on water? A duck that paddled within range was always considered safe.
 
I can tell you when I shoot ducks on the water.

When I have hiked in 5 miles behind the hawke hills back home.

After about an hour of walking you have seen zero birds. From atop a barren you see a gully in the barren about a mile or 2 away. You get closer and closer. There have still been no ducks flying over head, as is normal.

For the last 400 yrds you crawl on your belly. When you're at the edge of the gully you see 4 ducks in the water. If they had seen you from 500 yrds away, they would have been long gone. But you got low and quiet, did your part, and they don't know you're there. Finally you jump up and shoot. The first one or two are usually done on the water and perhaps one while he's flying.

By now you hopefully have 2 or 3 ducks. ( a pretty good day)
You'll hike the 5 miles out with your birds and it was a good day.
Many will be impressed that you got any and just as impresses that you could even get handy to them.
Where I hunted most of my life, waterfowl was few and far in between.
Decoys and calling was not used, it would be useless.

Getting a few ducks or geese was a big thing, not whether or not you shot them on the wing, or whether some states in the US thought you sporting.

If the style of hunting that I employed for shooting ducks, which often meant taking them on the water, is what you call unsporting, then be careful... start throwing in baiting bears, stalk and hunt, sneaking in on deer that are bedded and giving a grunt to rise them at about 50 yrds, and so on and so on,
 
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I wouild rather shoot a sinle sitting what ever than shoot into a large flock flying not knowing how many other birds behind the one you are aiming at may get hit. Both types of shooting have their pros and cons and if both are legal, do what works best for you.
 
If water fowl are rare in your area that you have to hunt them like mountain sheep, shouldn't that be telling you something about the health of the local population? Perhaps those that governed the general open season overlooked a problem area that the locals were well aware of?

Hunting styles are to each their own, probably derived out of some family tradition. As long as it's legal, there's not much to say.
 
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If water fowl are rare in your area that you have to hunt them like mountain sheep, shouldn't that be telling you something about the health of the local population? Perhaps those that governed the general open season overlooked a problem area that the locals were well aware of?

Hunting styles are to each their own, probably derived out of some family tradition. As long as it's legal, there's not much to say.
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Not really. This is how it has been for at least a hundred years, and beofre that I'm sure it was the same. Newfoundland is not a flyway, there are no vast fields of wheat, oats, corn, ...
Most of the birds eat bugs and so on...
Even the geese are berry eaters,..

This is how the population is. (in some places where there are fields and the like you can do a little better, but even most of them are local birds)

Flocks and flocks of Mallards anre extremely unusual,
Scaupe is much more likely in my areas and teal.

Mismanagement is not the issue. The popualtion is not changing, it is just not comparable to other populations to the west, or even PEI.

Because there are so few migrating and so many that are resident birds, they are smart birds.
I'm sure I have shot at the same birds maybe 3 years in a row.
 
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i don't practice my wingshooting with Trap and skeet all year long including practice with Black Powder shotshells, just to go out and shoot them sittin' in the water.....Besides we have so many ducks and geese, you really do have to make it a challenge, even a duffer can get his limit of ducks in no time.
 
migratory bird season is completely federal regulations so i woud look it up wiht a federal site on the regulations about on water, as for shooting them it all matters on how you many their are and how smart they are, an area in a fly way you can call in flocks for 3/4 hours soome days if they are in alot of smaller factions, but areas out of the fly way you may see no more than 10 ducks a day and get a good shot on 2
 
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I can tell you when I shoot ducks on the water.

When I have hiked in 5 miles behind the hawke hills back home.

After about an hour of walking you have seen zero birds. From atop a barren you see a gully in the barren about a mile or 2 away. You get closer and closer. There have still been no ducks flying over head, as is normal.

For the last 400 yrds you crawl on your belly. When you're at the edge of the gully you see 4 ducks in the water. If they had seen you from 500 yrds away, they would have been long gone. But you got low and quiet, did your part, and they don't know you're there. Finally you jump up and shoot. The first one or two are usually done on the water and perhaps one while he's flying.

By now you hopefully have 2 or 3 ducks. ( a pretty good day)
You'll hike the 5 miles out with your birds and it was a good day.
Many will be impressed that you got any and just as impresses that you could even get handy to them.
Where I hunted most of my life, waterfowl was few and far in between.
Decoys and calling was not used, it would be useless.

Getting a few ducks or geese was a big thing, not whether or not you shot them on the wing, or whether some states in the US thought you sporting.

If the style of hunting that I employed for shooting ducks, which often meant taking them on the water, is what you call unsporting, then be careful... start throwing in baiting bears, stalk and hunt, sneaking in on deer that are bedded and giving a grunt to rise them at about 50 yrds, and so on and so on,
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I started hunting ducks this fall, and a good portion of the ones I shot I shot like this. I didn't have any decoys (I do now) and I didn't have a boat, so I was pretty limited.

I don't see anything unsporting about it at all. It's a lot of hard work crawling around coastal ledges and you can get hurt bad falling. And for sea ducks, well, I don't have a thousand bucks to put into an eider decoy spread, so yes, I'll shoot them on the water. (Well, I'll shoot them just as they take off - more to aim at that way).

I'm a far better shot than some of my friends, but I'm still no dead aim with a shotgun, so I also think that shooting on the water will allow me a cleaner kill and sometimes less shells wasted. I'd rather practice wingshooting on crows.

Mudslinging at other hunters is stupid. Even if we all shot them on the wing from blinds some jackass would shout out that using blinds was unfair, or something like that.
 
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