Parkers in the field

[Kurt Densmore]

#1 Mark O., his dog Radar, and a Fox HE in the Parker Blind....
#2 A little proof........Destry was there...my camera wasn't working in the field so no field shots of the Swamp Angel...I regret.
#3 Me with the hammer grade 3 10 bore and my dog Dash and an obscured mallard.
#4 Couple of mallards and the grade 3 10
#5 Dash with a nice male Gadwall. Radar and Mark in background. It has been 15 years since I shot a nice gray duck. We don't get very many in Michigan. Might shoot one every few years. This one may go to the taxidermist.

[Mark Ouellette]

Kurt,

I appreciate the first photo but I was shooting a beautifully restored first year (1906) AH Fox A Grade with 32" barrels. It came to me via Hausmann's Hidden Hollow where another member talked the dealer down, down, down in price. That member then passed on her due to her IC and Mod chokes (constrictions). It seems no one but me appreciates long barrels and open chokes! Anyway, she is a good companion to my pair of HE's. Yesterday her 7lb 11 oz came up and swung easily to drop a pair of Mallards swinging past the decoys.

My Fox's are the redheads of my guns. Parkers are of course the blonds that everyone desires...

Radar doesn't much care what I shoot so long as he gets a good retrieve.

Mark

[charlie cleveland]

a fine a looking group as ive ever seen...photos of a hunt like this is whatits all about...that big fellow sure looks relaxed...i believe that gray duck has damascus feathers what do yall think...many hunts to you fellas.... charlie

[Destry L. Hoffard]

We got mighty relaxed that evening as I recall. That bottle of Chesapeake whiskey was empty when it was over. *wink*


Destry

[charlie cleveland]

save me one of them empty bottles with the ducks on it if yall aint saving them... would look good on the shelf.... that duck still looks like its got damascuc feathers... charlie

[Destry L. Hoffard]

I'll do it Charlie. If I can find anymore of the stuff I'll save you a full one. *wink*


Destry

[Thomas L. Benson Sr.]

I have never seen a grey duck but i'm with Charlie I would have to change the name to Damacus or those Dam ducks

[John Dallas]

A little off topic, but...
How many names do we use for ducks?

Mallards - Greenheads, Suzies
Gadwall - Gray duck
Widgeon - Baldpate
Scaup - Bluebills, Blackjacks
Pintails - Bull Sprig
Merganser - Sawbill

Others?

[Jack Cronkhite]

Teal - F-16's

[Destry L. Hoffard]

Coots - Bluepeter or Mud Hen

Widgeon - Slick Heads

Greater Bluebill - Broadbill

Ringnecks - Blackjacks

Drake Canvasback - Bulls

Mergansers - Hairy Heads

Buffleheads - Dippers

These are all names I've heard used regularly in various parts of the country.

In Cajun Country mallards are French Ducks, coots are poule du, bluebills are do gris, most ducks down there have their own french name.


Destry

[John Dallas]

Buffleheads - Butterballs

[Destry L. Hoffard]

Goldeneyes - Whistlers or on the Chesapeake Bay they're Jinglers

Canada Geese - Honkers or as Mutt Fluke used to say "them goddam long neck corn buzzards"

[Don Kaas]

I think it's "poule d'eau" for the coot in LA, i.e. "water chicken". On Mitchell's Bay coots are just known as trouble... On the Barnegat Bay, buffleheads are know as "dippers". Ruddies were known in the sounds of NC as "boobies"...being somewhat round in the pre-silicone days...I have spent all my life around the Cheapeake Bay and I have never heard anyone call a goldeneye, a "jingler"...always whistler.

Thankfully, despite political correctness and the USFWS, the old squaw's new name of longtailed duck hasn't caught on. We have also yet been spared the re-naming of the black duck to "the American Duck of Color"...

In Geo. Bird Grinnell's wonderful book "American Duck Shooting" (1901), he lists a plethora of colloquial names for every North American duck.

[John Dallas]

I can remember my dad and his friends in a blind on the Chester River in Maryland talking about "Hell Divers" and "Blue Peters". I believe they were talking about coots and grebes, but I don't remember which was which

[Destry L. Hoffard]

Hell Divers are grebes and Bluepeters are coots.

I believe I heard the jingler name used out on Tangier, could have been local to the island. I think Kevin has mentioned to me he's heard them called that as well.


DLH

[John Dallas]

Lots of unique words on the Eastern Shore. I've heard an anchor referred to as a "Kittle"

[charlie cleveland]

i like the name for the canada goose ... that long necked corn eating buzzurd....ive learned some new names for sure tonite... charlie