Shooting ducks on the water? :)

3macs1 said:
Not to mention it can be as hard as hell on your decoys depending who is doing the shooting. I remember one guy in a blind one time when guiding jumped up and never even looked at the birds in the air in front of us but proceeded to blow the f'k out of one poor plastic floater with three shots
I think he killed it :(
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I put two pellet holes through my Robo -Duck shooting a duck back-pedaling down beside it. Another time I put a hole through the aluminum pole it was mounted on shootng at a cripple swimming past it. :redface: This past season a fellow shooting at a crippled goose in our field spread put a few BBB's into one of my Real Geese silos......it happens. :(
 
1963beretta said:
yup, happened to me too. Needless to say, I no longer hunt with that individual
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Over the island on the ground / field blinds where I did a lot of hunting it would be even worse since most of the guys I went with used stuffers as they called them. Real geese done for decoys by taxidermists and they were running like 85 each back ten years ago. I can imagine what they are today. Don't want them blown to pieces
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the spank said:
I put two pellet holes through my Robo -Duck shooting a duck back-pedaling down beside it. Another time I put a hole through the aluminum pole it was mounted on shootng at a cripple swimming past it. :redface: This past season a fellow shooting at a crippled goose in our field spread put a few BBB's into one of my Real Geese silos......it happens. :(
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A couple of pellets or a mistake trying to finish off a criple happens But picking out a decoy and opening up on it with three rounds and cutting it in half. Those guys should not be in waterfowl blinds IMO. Hard to do that in the sky
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I was out earlier this season. A wood duck swam into our decoy spread. He didn't fly away as we shot at some mallards coming in. He would hop up out of the water and land again. This happened 2 or 3 times.

I decided he was a cripple and got out of the blind to shoot him on the water.

Wouldn't you know it... He flushed up. I missed all 3 shots and he got away.
 
ebruder said:
I was out earlier this season. A wood duck swam into our decoy spread. He didn't fly away as we shot at some mallards coming in. He would hop up out of the water and land again. This happened 2 or 3 times.

I decided he was a cripple and got out of the blind to shoot him on the water.

Wouldn't you know it... He flushed up. I missed all 3 shots and he got away.
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Don't feel bad about it. I think anyone who has hunted ducks long enough has a similar story to tell.
 
I also have found guys that hunt with their dogs never take shots on water or the ground for obvious reasons. Always on the wing I remember a poor young lab must be 20 year ago getting shot like that and had to be put down from a ground swatter.
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3macs1 said:
I also have found guys that hunt with their dogs never take shots on water or the ground for obvious reasons. Always on the wing I remember a poor young lab must be 20 year ago getting shot like that and had to be put down from a ground swatter.
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A friend once lost another friend for putting some pellets into his retriever while she was on a long retrieve. He told the shooter not to fire as she was in the water and would get the bird. He was afraid it would swim away, so figured he would fire over the dog and into the bird. Didn't quite work out that way. She brought the bird back, but had a few pellets in her hide for her efforts, the shooter got his bird, but lost a couple of teeth. The dog was okay and lived a long life, but the two men parted ways that day. Can't say I blame my friend...I probably would have reacted even more strongly!
 
Its a bit of a paradox. Shooting in the air is more fun, and as such more sporting. A good shot will wound more than he misses, making it less sporting. Take your pick.

I shoot them flying because its more fun. Since I don't really like eating ducks anyway, I don't need one bad enough to shoot them on the water. The ground pounding meat hunter probably is sitting on a higher horse.
 
The saints are out in this forum , the guy who shot the ducks in another country legally good for you. All ducks want to be shot by a judgmental sportsman who are perfect in every way.
 
Gatehouse said:
I use a 22 short and head shoot ducks. They are so tasty!
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In most areas of Canada, it is illegal to hunt migratory game birds with the use of a rifle, a shotgun loaded with a single bullet or with a crossbow. However, exceptions to this regulation do exist maybe where you are it is Ok not here for sure
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3macs1 said:
In most areas of Canada, it is illegal to hunt migratory game birds with the use of a rifle, a shotgun loaded with a single bullet or with a crossbow. However, exceptions to this regulation do exist maybe where you are it is Ok not here for sure
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Maybe its legal in the same place his buddy jump shoots ducks sleeping on the roost in mid night under a full moon
 
First off I dont think the duck cares one way or another, second point is everyone knows the 22 mag is the better duck round.
 
1963beretta said:
Maybe its legal in the same place his buddy jump shoots ducks sleeping on the roost in mid night under a full moon
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Every time I hear 22 and waterfowl I think of that case of the poor guide killed in a blind from someone shooting one across a field at some birds or maybe it was decoys I cannot remember not even knowing they were there hunting
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