I've always wanted to hear someone actually call them swamp bluebills. I've read that local name in some of the old literature, out of Wisconsin if memory serves. But it's a name that must have died out because I've sure never heard anybody use it in real life.
The name jacks must be more of an southern Mississippi Flyway thing then. I've always wondered if they called them that in the eastern portions of the south.
One of these days I'll dig out the old ringneck decoys we always used and post a pic. Dad and I had a good shoot over them about four opening days ago on Mermet Lake, made me feel like a kid again.
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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