Jump shooting Ducks with a One frame 12 ga.

[Jeff K.]

Sneaking up on mallards on farm ditches is usually close and fast shooting. I use #5 shot bismuth or tungsten matrix shells. I will see a woody once in a while, but they don't flush like a mallard. Some days I do well, and on others, it is just a long walk on the farm!

[Dean Romig]

I used to jump shoot mallards, blacks and woodies along similar ditches and creeks when I was a kid. Some of the best times I ever had with the old Trojan 12. Memory Lane is a nice place for a stroll. Thanks Jeff.

[Big Friend Ten (BFT)]

My first pair of ducks were shot off a farmer's pond in the middle of a pasture which at the time was full of cows. That pond was a hundred yards from a patch on woods but on the other side and looking up the hill there was at perhaps 250 yards to the farmers's house and barn. I was about 16 and my buddies dropped me off to sneak those woods. Once through the woods I snuck over open pasture to the bank of the elevated pond. I crawled up the bank with a Savage Fox B in tow loaded with 12 gauge 3" lead #2's.

Once in position I popped up and so did the Woodies. Boom, boom and they were in the middle of the pond with me wondering how I'd retrieve them without getting wet. I also wondered if the farmer had heard the shots... That tense moment so long ago was in Potter County Pennsylvania and while not some dark holler in West Virginia, one could still get shot at by an irate farmer worried about his cows!

Luckily for me there was a breeze. Within 10 minutes of me hugging mother Earth to avoid detection by the farmer, the ducks has been blown to shore. I once again popped up, snatched my birds and very rapidly snuck into the woods.

The year was 1976. I joined the Marines in 1977 and always did very well in night maneuvers and other challenges of stealth. After all, I had a little practice in circumstances with potential live fire...

Mark

[charlie cleveland]

good storey...we have all done a little training under fire i suppose...charlie

[10 bore]

Originally Posted by scott kittredge

nice pic, tell us about the gun i will be going out in the morning with my sneakbox boat. i will report tomorrow. scott

1 mallard yesterday and 2 today here is the 1st one, useing my EH 10 ga with 1 1/4 oz 5's bismuth at 45 yds, had to jump shoot the 2nd one in a low tide creek; turn out to be a muddy mess and dog too.

[charlie cleveland]

thats one pretty duck i like the way youve got the duck and shell placed and of course the gun on that log...these old tens were built for duck hunting... charlie

[Richard Flanders]

Some of the funnest duck hunting I've ever done was jump shooting along a small creek near my little log cabin in south central Alaska. I knew where the wide spots were that they liked and I'd sneak up on my belly and jump them. I also floated the creek in my canoe with my VHE20 beside me. I'd come around the bends and they'd go straight up. Very fun shooting. Once I tipped the canoe over leaning to shoot and lost the gun in 6ft of water and had to strip and dive for it. THAT was cold I can tell you. I'd pull out at a fish hatchery, leave the canoe in the bushes and hitchhike back to my truck with the open gun over one shoulder and ducks over the other. Guys would screech to a halt to give me a ride. You gotta love this place. Unfortunately, some of those ducks would be eating salmon eggs in that creek and stunk up the place pretty good during cooking and tasted pretty nasty....