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Good hunt Pete. Bud and I are finding more ducks this year compared to the last two. Have had two pretty good hunts on the Great Bay side of Adams Point.
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12-08-2016, 03:16 PM | #4 | ||||||
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It's a little better than the last two years but far from what it used to be, or should be. Very few ducks moving again today. I was out for 3 1/2 hours and I saw maybe a total of 15 for the day.
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12-08-2016, 03:57 PM | #5 | ||||||
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In point system days that was a duck and a goose limit in Southern Illinois. Blacks and mallard hens were 100 point birds, and we had a one goose limit in the early 80's.
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12-08-2016, 05:32 PM | #6 | ||||||
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I have missed your post's on duck hunts this year. This coming cold front may improve things. Has been very slow here as have the last two years.
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12-08-2016, 05:33 PM | #7 | ||||||
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it was a good hunt pete...them old 10 ga s are the gun of my choice...charlie
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12-08-2016, 05:41 PM | #8 | ||||||
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Years ago in MI the rules were so complicated you needed an accountant, a lawyer, and an ornithologist to stay out of trouble.
A friend of mine donated a duck shoot to a private club in St. Helen's Mich which was auctioned off at a DU dinner. The folks who bought it were accustomed to the liberal (6 birds, any species) of Canada. They went to the shoot, and shot the first two birds which came over - 2 hen Mallards. They were done for the day, and were mad as hell about it, given the money they had spent.
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12-08-2016, 05:50 PM | #9 | ||||||
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Wish I had the camera just before dusk tonight. At least a couple hundred ducks and geese dropped into a half-acre pool here on the Shawsheen. Sure was a pretty sight.
WHF used to hunt ducks here along the Shawsheen and makes reference to it in NEGS. .
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12-09-2016, 01:13 PM | #10 | ||||||
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Hi Pete, how did that Baker 10 ga you picked up at Hausmann's work out, seemed like a really nice gun.
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