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Jeff, an Ice Eater is basically a large propeller in a housing that you set below the water. It is run by electricity provided usually from a generator (although some duck hunting sites have electricity, the ones I am familiar with do not so we use a generator.) The Propeller keeps the water moving so that it will not freeze up even during very cold temperatures. Further the open water is very attractive to passing waterfowl who will attempt to land among your decoys in this open water. If they attempt to land, Destry will shoot the eyes out of everything near and far. That's his story and I'm sticking to it ;>) BC
If you use your search engine looking for ice eater you will find lots of providers and youtubes showing their uses.
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Ice eaters are a mighty handy tool, I'm glad my friend has one. If he didn't, we wouldn't have had any shooting this weekend at all.
We hunted again this morning and the duck numbers improved, though again, there was an awful lot of Hollywood in the bag. It was pretty well limits all around, even a canvasback fell to the boys on the island which was fun to see. I wound up the morning with another pair of redheads, a mallard drake, and three of the aforementioned, along with a big fat coon. The coon was a hoot, the boys in the island blind spotted him coming out of a small piece of cover behind the point blind we were shooting and pointed him out to me. I was shooting with Mr. Russell (the owner) who announced that he didn't need any coons near his duck ponds as they might fight with the dogs. I jumped out of the blind and pulled the old "I don't see you, I'm just walking by" shuffle while actually angling towards him and managed to get within a long shot. I only had #6 shells left by this time and just annoyed him with the first couple rounds. I was reloading and trotting his direction when he actually turned and ran towards me which caused his quick demise. At 20 yards, a load of 1 1/4 of #6 shot is mighty hard on a coon's head. All in all a terrific weekend with my Dad and some great friends. We even had a couple young bucks with us today who picked up all the decoys while we watched from the bank and gave directions. Getting older does have it's slight advantages in the field, I used to be those guys not too many years ago. *wink* DLH
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P.S. to Blue: As predicted, my shooting today wasn't half what it was yesterday. I got my ducks, but I missed a few in the process, and only managed to pull out one high one.
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Any "jewelry" on the ducks or coon?
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Destry said "I got my ducks, but I missed a few in the process, and only managed to pull out one high one."
That's good enough to keep your marsh cred with me.
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Excuse my ignorance but what is a "Hollywood" duck?
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I believe the "Hollywood" or "Hollywood Mallard" refers to a Northern Shoveler. Some suggest that everything in Hollywood is not real and that the Shoveler is certainly not a mallard? Although somewhat similar in markings one is a prized animal to harvest the other, not so much. BC
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Harry: No jewelry on them ducks or the coon either one oddly enough. I've always wanted to kill a band on a Hollywood but no luck so far.
Blue: I like your analogy on the Hollywoods better than mine. We always just said them ducks was like them people from Hollywood, they're always smilin'.
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