Reelfoot Lake - and no ducks!

[davidboyles]

Well I actually hunted in Nash Buckinghams Beaver Dam Lake blind for two days 2 weeks ago and very few ducks. Stove worked and bullshit was good but to drive 11 hours was a sad disappointment. Even had a Super HE and EH 10 grade for the welcoming committee. Guides said duck count down 80% weekend before they showed me a pic of 43 ducks mostly Greenheads in the same blind I was in. No story to write about. Should have stayed in S Tx shot Whitewings which were everywhere!!!

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by davidboyles

Well I actually hunted in Nash Buckinghams Beaver Dam Lake blind for two days 2 weeks ago and very few ducks. Stove worked and bullshit was good but to drive 11 hours was a sad disappointment. Even had a Super HE and EH 10 grade for the welcoming committee. Guides said duck count down 80% weekend before they showed me a pic of 43 ducks mostly Greenheads in the same blind I was in. No story to write about. Should have stayed in S Tx shot Whitewings which were everywhere!!!

I wasn’t to far from there about six years ago at a friends shall we say duck club . Around Lake Village AR , we were there for piggies and it was the final weekend of duck duck season . The guy that owned the place and his buddies hammered the heck out of the Ducks the last three days . All shooting semis and pumps tsk tsk tsk . I had a W&C Scott hammerless 10 down but I had handloaded buck no bird loads .

[Kevin McCormack]

Originally Posted by davidboyles

Well I actually hunted in Nash Buckinghams Beaver Dam Lake blind for two days 2 weeks ago and very few ducks. Stove worked and bullshit was good but to drive 11 hours was a sad disappointment. Even had a Super HE and EH 10 grade for the welcoming committee. Guides said duck count down 80% weekend before they showed me a pic of 43 ducks mostly Greenheads in the same blind I was in. No story to write about. Should have stayed in S Tx shot Whitewings which were everywhere!!!

Jan. 10, 2017 - ducks were there in profusion; lots of different species. Bitter cold but no wind; had to break ice out to the Cadillac Blind. Much to my delight my host gifted me a 25-round box of 2 1/2" Kent Tungsten Matrix #4s which he had brought back from England. My newly-restocked X/DE Fox really liked them! The ducks, not so much.