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Jump shooting is sneaking up on ducks along drainage ditches. Its basically walking one to two miles in chest waders, because if you shoot a duck, you get to retrieve it. While very productive, a beaver dam makes things very interesting on the retrieve!
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12-27-2020, 11:17 PM
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Andy, your description of duck hunting is precisely why I have never done it!
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12-28-2020, 08:15 AM
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Those are dandy late season curly tail mallards. Good job.
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12-28-2020, 08:31 AM
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It's not hunting unless you suffer, right? I don't know that we have many places to do it, but perhaps a small trout stream would work near me. Season is open until next week, and I have my stamp. All I'm missing is a Parker to do it with!
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12-28-2020, 01:45 PM
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A Parker is advised but not necessary to enjoy the thrills of jump-shooting puddle ducks. I did it all the time when I was a kid with a 20 gauge Stevens single shot, then a Parker Trojan 12 ga. then a Stevens 20 gauge pump. It didn't matter to me what I used, it was just a whole lot of fun!
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12-28-2020, 02:12 PM
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12-28-2020, 02:50 PM
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There are other fun ways to jump shoot ducks, such as from a boat. Nash Buckingham and friends would have a paddler, or many times a poler as the water was very shallow and weedy. Man with the gun sat up front in the boat.
I do it alone in my camo fiberglass kayak, or with a friend in a Gheenoe. We are on streams with a good current, and the paddler in the rear of the boat just keeps the boat straight as it drifts with the current. This is my hunting kayak:  
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12-28-2020, 04:54 PM
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During quail season we will jump shoot ducks on ranch ponds. If I don’t have my lab or the one English pointer with me that water retrieves we carry a stiff bass rod.
17 lb test and a top water plug. Saves wading in the pond or throwing rocks trying to get them to float to the down wind side of the pond. |
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