Urban Ducks

[Victor Wasylyna]

Cold and two inches of ice at the boat ramp, but the greenheads made my day. FYI: The backdrop of our hunt was downtown Cleveland, Ohio.

[Dean Romig]

A couple of old duck clubs in the Cleveland area in the latter part of the 19th century come to mind. Which one were you hunting from?... marsh?... point?






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[Victor Wasylyna]

No marsh, no point. We were on Lake Erie pushed up against a break-wall that protects downtown Cleveland. Those famous duck clubs (e.g., Winous Point) and their productive marshes are about one hour west, and most likely thoroughly iced over.

[Mills Morrison]

That looks like fun. I have heard that there is great duck hunting around the Washington D.C. area within sight of the city

[Dean Romig]

Have you seen The Meadowlands near the NY/NJ border within sight of the Empire State Building?

I don't know if hunting is allowed there but it is a waterfowl mecca!





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[charlie cleveland]

thats a great picture....charlie

[Rick Losey]

I see these pictures and wonder - with the urban mentality being what it is these days - how long before we have the issues out British shooting friends have - where hunts are interrupted by armed response teams - even police helicopters when someone reports the shots fired

might just be me- i don't even like shooting towards a road even when it a very long safe way off.

[David Fishley]

"where hunts are interrupted by armed response teams - even police helicopters when someone reports the shots fired"

I was interrupted this year, first in about 15. Mind you I was sitting on the City/municipality line and shooting into the municipality. Helicopter first, circling high over head then 4 cop cars and 2 guys jump out with the AR14's, flac jackets, boots, the hole nine yards. Interesting when I told them they were City cops and had no jurisdiction in the municipality. When they insisted they did i told them to call the dispatch and double check. That ended that. No real trouble from them. Shots fired so they had to respond to a complaint.

[Destry L. Hoffard]

I've spent many a day in Cleveland but never shot a duck there.

I remember reading an article years ago about a group of guys who had found a loophole and were hunting brant very close to NYC. They had some trials and tribulations, but the gunning was supreme.

[John Dallas]

A decoy-carving friend of mine with a bizarre sense of humor facetiously wondered what it would take to decoy the bread-eating mallards in the local cemetery on the outskirts of Detroit, so he made up a slice of bread decoy.

[Jerry Harlow]

Three years ago I had sunflowers right across the road from my place. The power line runs right along the road, so I set up facing away from the road shooting onto my property.

I had killed maybe three or four, and had camo and a mask on so the doves would not shy away and would come into small-bore range. All of a sudden here came two state police cars with lights flashing, one stopping and one going down to my driveway in a blind curve, backing into the highway and pulling up so as to surround me. I stood up so they could see me hunting; one trooper had on full-body armor and the other in regular uniform.

It seems some well intentioned liberal hussy had called in to report a man standing on the bank of the highway in full camo with a "very large rifle." As I talked to the troopers who had interrupted my hunting a dove flew by so I raised the gun and fired at him. They asked who owned the land across the road, I answered I did. They asked if the people in the two adjacent houses cared if I hunted. I told them I owned the houses and they were rentals and I did not care what they thought. A few minutes later they were back in route to the college football game they were to cover, having been uselessly pulled off the interstate.