Jump shooting ducks 2020

[Andy]

Jump shooting?? Never done it. I usually get up at 3am. Put waders on. Set out decoys. Get the whining dog or dogs out Get in the blind. Scold them to be quiet! Freeze. Go home.

[Dean Romig]

It’s great fun Andy. More like spot and stalk hunting or like walk ‘em up pheasant or grouse hunting.





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[Jeff K.]

Jump shooting is sneaking up on ducks along drainage ditches. Its basically walking one to two miles in chest waders, because if you shoot a duck, you get to retrieve it. While very productive, a beaver dam makes things very interesting on the retrieve!

[Harold Pickens]

Andy, your description of duck hunting is precisely why I have never done it!

[Matt Buckley]

Those are dandy late season curly tail mallards. Good job.

[Andy]

It's not hunting unless you suffer, right? I don't know that we have many places to do it, but perhaps a small trout stream would work near me. Season is open until next week, and I have my stamp. All I'm missing is a Parker to do it with!

[Dean Romig]

A Parker is advised but not necessary to enjoy the thrills of jump-shooting puddle ducks. I did it all the time when I was a kid with a 20 gauge Stevens single shot, then a Parker Trojan 12 ga. then a Stevens 20 gauge pump. It didn't matter to me what I used, it was just a whole lot of fun!





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[Andy]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

A Parker is advised but not necessary to enjoy the thrills of jump-shooting puddle ducks. I did it all the time when I was a kid with a 20 gauge Stevens single shot, then a Parker Trojan 12 ga. then a Stevens 20 gauge pump. It didn't matter to me what I used, it was just a whole lot of fun!.

I have no shortage of guns to use, but am merely making an excuse to get a 12 bore ; ) I don't know how folks decide which gun to use. Sometimes I look at the safe and have paralysis by analysis over what gun to use. Since getting my 28DHE Repro I just don't carry anything else for grouse. My O/U's are getting lonely, not to mention my Ithaca 37 and LC Smith and A5s.

[Stan Hillis]

There are other fun ways to jump shoot ducks, such as from a boat. Nash Buckingham and friends would have a paddler, or many times a poler as the water was very shallow and weedy. Man with the gun sat up front in the boat.

I do it alone in my camo fiberglass kayak, or with a friend in a Gheenoe. We are on streams with a good current, and the paddler in the rear of the boat just keeps the boat straight as it drifts with the current.

This is my hunting kayak:

[Phil C]

During quail season we will jump shoot ducks on ranch ponds. If I don’t have my lab or the one English pointer with me that water retrieves we carry a stiff bass rod.
17 lb test and a top water plug. Saves wading in the pond or throwing rocks trying to get them to float to the down wind side of the pond.