Arkansas

[CraigThompson]

Well we're heading to Arkansas this coming friday with the intention of hunting piggies and perhaps a duck or two the last day !

I will be hauling along several rifles , a revolver and two damascus shotguns of which one will be my somewhat abused circa 1911 Parker GH 16 gauge . The other is my #1 gun my W.&C.Scott 10 gauge 2 7/8" . I'll have buck loads and duck loads with me for both .

So push comes to shove regardless of whether I kill with the Parker the W&C or a rifle I'll post some pics !

The place we're going is perhaps 30 miles south of Stuttgart . Correct me if I'm wrong but this was Nash's big duck hunting area back in the day !

This I'll be my first trip into TN , MS , AR and LA so if nothing else it should be intresting just to see places I've not been before .

[Eric Eis]

Good Luck and let's see some pictures....

[CraigThompson]

Good Luck and let's see some pictures....

Thank you !

It's my intention to take many pics !

But you know how that goes , sometimes you get caught up in the moment and forget the camera !
However over the course of 10 days I should take some I would hope !

[CraigThompson]

Well I'm back and no piggies for me !

Matter of fact I didn't see any except a dead one that a friend shot !

I did however see a heck of an Arkansas 10 point buck .

Took about 25 pics I'll try and get posted monday from the shop .

[CraigThompson]

The day we arrived !

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The main house at the camp !

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The bunkhouse !

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This was hanging on the outside of the bunkhouse !
They have to be the largest set of cotton scales I've ever seen in my life !

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[CraigThompson]

Some pics I took 1-29-12 !

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From the deer house !

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[CraigThompson]

Pics from 1-30-12

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[CraigThompson]

The piggie my friend killed !

Weighed 175 on a certified scale !

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The meat locker the piggie was kept in until we cut her up !

[CraigThompson]

2-1-12 , not many as the battery in my cam died !

This was the second deer house I hunted from .

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[CraigThompson]

And finally pics from 2-2-12 !

This was the third deer house I hunted from !

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[charlie cleveland]

nice country looks to have been some fine duck hunting there.... nice piggy too what did he shoot him with...arkansaw has some beautiful country to hunt in part of it reminds me of bottom land i use to hunt at home here in mississippi....weve got hogs here were i live in places but ive never incountered them but have frinds that reguarly hunt and live trap them piggies....thanks for the photos..... charlie

[CraigThompson]

nice country looks to have been some fine duck hunting there.... nice piggy too what did he shoot him with...arkansaw has some beautiful country to hunt in part of it reminds me of bottom land i use to hunt at home here in mississippi....weve got hogs here were i live in places but ive never incountered them but have frinds that reguarly hunt and live trap them piggies....thanks for the photos..... charlie

He shot that pig with a Remington Model 7 Stainless Synthetic in 300 Remington Short Action Ultra Mag ! With a 168 grain Barnes TSXT bullet I handloaded for him . Shot the pig at all of 9 yards !

The owner and his budds wacked the heck outta the ducks the last 3 days of the season !

[charlie cleveland]

mighty long shot 9 yards....those pigs are tough they say....thanks charlie

[CraigThompson]

Charlie one of the highlights of the trip was dinner friday night in Greenville Mississippi at a resteraunt called "Doe's Eating Place" .

I had part of one of the best Porterhouse steacks I've ever eaten in my life !

We ordered two 2 pound steacks for 4 of us and our friends wife had shrimp !

Enchilada's follwed by salad and fried shrimp . And then the main course of Porterhouse medium rare with fries and a Cabernet Sauvignon . And after while we were talking I popped the cork on a bottle of "Six Grapes" Port !

All we needed were some cigars but then I don't smoke LOL's !

[Dean Romig]

Lookas like a fella could get his feet wet there if he isn't real careful.

[CraigThompson]

Lookas like a fella could get his feet wet there if he isn't real careful.

I had knee boots and rode that ATV everywhere !

The older gents that were there strictly for ducks wore chest waders all the time !

Next year I'll take some chest waders and Nice shot loaded 10 gauge shells for the two short 10's and my 16 GH and perhaps I can go shoot Daffy Duck !

To be honest I've never fired a shot at a duck or goose . But I suspect if I can hit quail and grouse a duck shouldn't be to damn difficult .

[Destry L. Hoffard]

I love to take quail and grouse hunters out for ducks, it's usually quite a show. But then again, I'm sure quail and grouse hunters love taking me out for revenge. *evil laugh*


Destry

[CraigThompson]

I love to take quail and grouse hunters out for ducks, it's usually quite a show. But then again, I'm sure quail and grouse hunters love taking me out for revenge. *evil laugh*


Destry

Hmmmm that kinda sounds like a challenge :cool:

After watching the way the ducks came in to those fellows , all they were doing was shooting hovering birds as big as pie plates . I'd be willing to accept a challenge shooting at them that way . Lord knows I've decoyed in enough dove over the years and shot them hoverring the same way .

Your statement sounds vaugely similar to what the trap and skeet shooters used to throw back and forth at each other at my club !

Funny thing was I shot both and was equally good (or bad however you wanna look at it ) at both games !
So I tend to see quail/grouse vs ducks/geese about the same . My thoughts have always been if it's in the air , in range and I can see it then I oughtta be able to hit it fairly regularly .

[Destry L. Hoffard]

A lot of quail and grouse shooting is quick snap shooting at close range. There's some of that in waterfowling when you shoot them feet down over the decoys. But on the days when they aren't doing that it gets a lot different. That's when the quail and grouse hunters have a tougher time. If you're a dove hunter then you'd probably be fine on ducks, the shooting is similar a lot of the time.

Both types of shooting take skill, neither is easy, and all have their charms. I probably couldn't hit a grouse flushing in heavy cover to save my life. But I can hit a goose swinging over at 40 yards in a high wind.

There's a great MacQuarrie story about the confident duck hunter going prairie chicken shooting and the tough time he has. If you look at it from the other way, it's the same kinda deal.

Bundle a grouse hunter up in a heavy coat and gloves, park him in a metal boat in the cold blowing wind to stiffen up a bit. Then hand him a long heavy gun that handles like a railroad iron to shoot, and tell him to kill a redhead ripping by about 60 miles an hour out at 40 yards on the edge of the decoys while the boat rocks back and forth.

Take a chubby cigar smoking duck hunter, walk him up and down the hills half the day. Give him some little toy size shotgun to shoot that feels like he's throwing around a broom handle. About the time he's panting and out of breath, the sweat starts rolling into his eyes, and he's got a saw briar stuck to the crotch of his pants, let a grouse get up from a thicket and give him a split second to shoot at it before it flys behind a tree.

I think you can read both sides of this coin.


Destry

[Dean Romig]

All very well and fairly said Destry.

[charlie cleveland]

enjoyed the hunt very much...i too getting a little slow on the draw...and outa breath after a hundred yards.... charlie

[CraigThompson]

A lot of quail and grouse shooting is quick snap shooting at close range. There's some of that in waterfowling when you shoot them feet down over the decoys. But on the days when they aren't doing that it gets a lot different. That's when the quail and grouse hunters have a tougher time. If you're a dove hunter then you'd probably be fine on ducks, the shooting is similar a lot of the time.

Both types of shooting take skill, neither is easy, and all have their charms. I probably couldn't hit a grouse flushing in heavy cover to save my life. But I can hit a goose swinging over at 40 yards in a high wind.

There's a great MacQuarrie story about the confident duck hunter going prairie chicken shooting and the tough time he has. If you look at it from the other way, it's the same kinda deal.

Bundle a grouse hunter up in a heavy coat and gloves, park him in a metal boat in the cold blowing wind to stiffen up a bit. Then hand him a long heavy gun that handles like a railroad iron to shoot, and tell him to kill a redhead ripping by about 60 miles an hour out at 40 yards on the edge of the decoys while the boat rocks back and forth.

Take a chubby cigar smoking duck hunter, walk him up and down the hills half the day. Give him some little toy size shotgun to shoot that feels like he's throwing around a broom handle. About the time he's panting and out of breath, the sweat starts rolling into his eyes, and he's got a saw briar stuck to the crotch of his pants, let a grouse get up from a thicket and give him a split second to shoot at it before it flys behind a tree.

I think you can read both sides of this coin.


Destry

I will defer to the fact that obviousely you have more experience then myself at actual waterfowl .

However I also feel it needs to be proven to me that I can't hit the things !

To many years of skeet , trap , sporting clays , dove etc etc etc have me still believing I can do it well enough to get a limit in a good many situations . Mallards coming down in the timber holes they were hunting while I was there are chip shots no getting around it !

I truely wish I had gone and gotten waders and a license while I was there !
Incidently my present preferred dove gun weighs about 8 or 9 pounds . And since I had my preferred dove gun with me :whistle:

[chris dawe]

A lot of quail and grouse shooting is quick snap shooting at close range. There's some of that in waterfowling when you shoot them feet down over the decoys. But on the days when they aren't doing that it gets a lot different. That's when the quail and grouse hunters have a tougher time. If you're a dove hunter then you'd probably be fine on ducks, the shooting is similar a lot of the time.

Both types of shooting take skill, neither is easy, and all have their charms. I probably couldn't hit a grouse flushing in heavy cover to save my life. But I can hit a goose swinging over at 40 yards in a high wind.

There's a great MacQuarrie story about the confident duck hunter going prairie chicken shooting and the tough time he has. If you look at it from the other way, it's the same kinda deal.

Bundle a grouse hunter up in a heavy coat and gloves, park him in a metal boat in the cold blowing wind to stiffen up a bit. Then hand him a long heavy gun that handles like a railroad iron to shoot, and tell him to kill a redhead ripping by about 60 miles an hour out at 40 yards on the edge of the decoys while the boat rocks back and forth.

Take a chubby cigar smoking duck hunter, walk him up and down the hills half the day. Give him some little toy size shotgun to shoot that feels like he's throwing around a broom handle. About the time he's panting and out of breath, the sweat starts rolling into his eyes, and he's got a saw briar stuck to the crotch of his pants, let a grouse get up from a thicket and give him a split second to shoot at it before it flys behind a tree.

I think you can read both sides of this coin.


Destry

More true word's could not have been spoken,my duck hunting friend think's my grouse hunting shot's are astounding...but when he take's me duck shooting,well sir ...it's down right pathetic.

He tell's me I think too much with the duck's ,watching them come in for what seem's like forever...then trying to take what "I " think is an easy shot.