Shooting ducks on the water? :)
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Ah! But in Gatehouse's defence he never said he "hunted" ducks, only that he "shot" ducks and with a 22 short to the head. In looking at his pics it was easy to see he is doing his domestic duck round up and slaughter and is using a 22 pump to dispatch them rather than chop their heads off like a chicken.
Man Medved got ripped into in this thread.
European game management and hunting are a lot different than North American hunting. If you think hunting in Western Europe is bad I'm sure you would enjoy yourself netting songbirds in North Africa...
Even in our country, the Alberta hunters ed tells you not to shoot a running deer like four times, meanwhile hunters in Ontario post up and chase deer through the forest to their fellows.
I am not experienced at duck hunting but I look forward to meeting these ducks that land and sit in range waiting for me to shoot them.
European game management and hunting are a lot different than North American hunting. If you think hunting in Western Europe is bad I'm sure you would enjoy yourself netting songbirds in North Africa...
Even in our country, the Alberta hunters ed tells you not to shoot a running deer like four times, meanwhile hunters in Ontario post up and chase deer through the forest to their fellows.
I am not experienced at duck hunting but I look forward to meeting these ducks that land and sit in range waiting for me to shoot them.
Defense?? .This is not the place if one wants to play games and this was a hunting forum he posted in is it not??. Most of us take our hunting and shooting way too serious for this BS
Not to mention this site is full of sponges who soak up everything and next thing we will hear about another guy killed because someone was using a 22 to hunt ducks cause he read it on nutz and it was legal to do so.
Guess the mods are Ok with that but I am sure not. Since until clarified it is clearly a violation for Rule 1
Any discussion and/or promotion of illegal activities.
But you guys don't see that or let me guess that will never happen AGAIN well suprise stray bullets from idiots shooting into spreads have killed more than one waterfowl hunter in a blind over the years we don't need any more of these events
Easy to see ??? Well on the comments about just look at the plucked pics well boys that all depends I guess on where you hunt and what your ducks have been eating. Yes I have hunted ducks many times out west and in many of our provinces so can Quack
There are many spots here locally where we get into ducks from time to time that come into the decoys that have been hand feed all year by people and guess what they look identical when plucked. Bread ducks we call them , over sized and they taste terrible. On my street right now I can drive 600 feet and there will be over 100 WILD DUCKS in a yard being hand fed every day of the year
Also our domestic ducks are double the size of these in the pics so why would it be easy to see for all. Tell me Please
So one size doesn't fit all here like some may think and some may not see these as domestic or barn yard taken
But you guys know all that. Sure clear to me NOT
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How do you construe backing someone up as playing games? In all honesty the inability to comprehend the English language by those who responded to Gatehouse's original post seems the issue to me. When I read it I read it exactly as it was written. I did notread once that he hunted ducks or even shot them on water for that matter as he never stated either but right away the "you can't do that" crowd on here jumped on it right away with their assumptions rather than asking for a clarification. Did you notice after a few immediate following posts of the discussion on shooting at migratory birds with a 22 I myself asked if anyone could verify that I thought I could recall it being printed on the Federal regs about it being illegal to use a rifle for migratory birds? One should always know before posting for the very reason you mention. So that someone does not take it as gospel and run with it and someone did in fact post a copy of the regs from a website. That was perfect, a job well done. Again I will say Gatehouse never at any point said he was hunting or had hunted ducks with a 22 and if you read through his posts you can see he purposefully never said he had. Again it is simple comprehension of the written word, not jumping to conclusions through assumptions. I am done, carry on.......
It is very simple Spank forget the english comprehension crap. He was playing games not you
I did ask for clarification and he finally said something to the effect I am not doing anything illegal
So is he native and has special rights, did he take these ducks in the NWT or Quebec with the 22 are they domestic whatever. Still no clarification
Regardless. THIS is a HUNTING FORUM. Plain and Simple NOT ENGLISH 101 THE END
Lets be Honest he clearly was focused on getting Beretta1963 going for god knows what reasons that is clear in all of the posts . That is where the games are being played
Oh yes I did answer the regs question for you when asked and posted it
In the end I could not give a flying F'k how guys Hunt their ducks or where they shoot them as long as it is legal and they can kill them cleanly with as few cripples as possible
Me I have always been a wingshooter and will die a wingshooter since I can handle a shotgun well enough to be an effective one but unfortunately shotgunning is a dying art from what I have been seeing the last 20 years so maybe some have to ground swat so fill their boots
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Shooting ducks on the water AKA, stttin ducks is bad juju
I had a gf who was part native who used to get upset with me for hunting crows. She used to say it was bad juju to hunt crows. Something about her "teachings" from her Grandfather. Crows and Ravens were not to be killed as it would bring some bad Karma to your spirit or something along those lines? I told her that was only true for those who believed in that crap and that my belief was more Crow control was needed so I was not going to stop hunting crows. She didn't like it but never brought it up again.
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x2!
Eventually you have to bottom out, there's only so low you can sink, even in mud. However even the lowest of the low still have a trump card to play; everyone else is an elitist. Those with re-peet-tors are shameless game hogs, and those with doubles have more money than brains. Those with waders that don't leak and most of their teeth are soft city pretty boys, and those with large decoy spreads and great equipment are probably over limit poachers. Reverse elitism is pretty handy; if you can't rise from the mud throw it around or see if you can drag someone else down with you.
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I would like to raise my hand at this time to point out that my hunting partners and I hunt over a spread of 600+ mixed Snow, Canada, Specklebelly and field Mallard decoys and have plans to increase that number to 1,000! Proud to be an over-limit poacher even if a tired one from setting and picking up that spread each hunt!!
I would like to raise my hand at this time to point out that my hunting partners and I hunt over a spread of 600+ mixed Snow, Canada, Specklebelly and field Mallard decoys and have plans to increase that number to 1,000! Proud to be an over-limit poacher even if a tired one from setting and picking up that spread each hunt!!
Just courious. How many does this old trap shooter ( if I remember correctly you were/are) not take on the wing. My guess would be almost none if any
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Nice! I like it
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I would like to raise my hand at this time to point out that my hunting partners and I hunt over a spread of 600+ mixed Snow, Canada, Specklebelly and field Mallard decoys and have plans to increase that number to 1,000! Proud to be an over-limit poacher even if a tired one from setting and picking up that spread each hunt!!
I can see how that would be a royal pain in the a$$...but its these kinds of things that we do for the love of the hunt! I dream of these kinds of hunts for Snows...and Im green with envy for those who have it available at their doorstep.
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It happens quite often actually. Its great for new hunters and kids getting started or folks that arent the best wing shooters as it helps them bag ducks and not lose interest. But I find that once you gain confidence and your shotgunning skills improve, you'll likely take less advantage of these opportunities. Also, where I hunt its happened where cripples that have gotten away from other hunters at some point in the past swim into your dekes. There is no other way to finish them off without a shot at them in water.
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It takes us no more than 40 minutes to put out a spread because the Snow decoys are primarily silo-sock style decoys. Each guy can easily grab a couple dozen at a time and run them out in a few minutes. Usually from start to finish including layout blinds set up and stubbled is an hour tops. It helps to have mid - twenties hunting partners too.....otherwise I'd still be picking up from the last hunt in November......
This is a hunt from early October. We were targeting just Snows. We had out around 300 decoys. It took 20 minutes to run this spread out and less than 35 with blinds out and stubbled by having two guys tend to blinds while the other five set decoys. The following week we added 10 dozen more silo-sock type decoys and two dozen Blue Goose silhouettes plus another 4 fliers. We now have around 440 Snow decoys combined between 4 of us including silo-socks, silhouettes, shells and flyers. We also have a home-made rotator. Plans are to double the Snow Goose spread for the coming season if we can get as smoking of a deal this year as we found last on decoy prices.
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None.....it's been years and years since I have sluiced a duck on water or land.
Thought so
I would have been shocked if you did . Just not something I have found trap or skeet shooters ever doMy apologies for you taking my post as you did. That was not my intent and should have been more clear where the frustration was directed
Have a Merry Christmas and keep smoking them all
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Thought so
My apologies for you taking my post as you did. That was not my intent and should have been more clear where the frustration was directed
Have a Merry Christmas and keep smoking them all
No apologies necessary and I certainly was not directing any ill intent your way either....have a very Merry Christmas!!
