never to early to start getting ready. I believe Mistey the wonder dawg thinks her dawg duck blind might be to nice to actually BE a duck blind
Printable View
never to early to start getting ready. I believe Mistey the wonder dawg thinks her dawg duck blind might be to nice to actually BE a duck blind
We've been talking ducks, but it's hard to get too excited when it's 103 outside.Quote:
Originally Posted by Choudawg86
Talked to one of my friends who hunts in Bradley, Ark and he said the teal never left for the summer!? Maybe the drought has something to do with this? This guy lives for duck hunting and was definitely serious when he mentioned this fact to me and it truly has me puzzled. I think the drought up north and the lack of crops left for the migrating ducks will make this coming season one to remember for us down south!
You mean he is saying the teal never migrated back north?Quote:
Originally Posted by marketdawg
That's what he said. I've never heard of such but I believe this guy. They have a slough and two reservoirs that keep water on his place all year and he said he's had teal all summer.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tech77
Animals are fascinating creatures. I'm not being sarcastic, but how in the heck would they know not to migrate at all? Did a few scouts go ahead and somehow message back to stay the ef away? But you see it in all types of animals. Unreal.Quote:
Originally Posted by marketdawg
Wouldn't ya know. All indications are that the drought in the West and up north is going to make for one hell of a duck season around here and our farmer is not going to flood our field this year.
Can you say rush to find a new pit blind
I just moved to the Shreveport area from Ruston a few months ago for PA school. I have been hunting on public land for the last several years with a few pit blind trips whenever a buddy could squeeze me in. Anyone in the area know of any public land close to the Shreveport area that is fairly close and descent hunting? Also I don't have a boat, only a 4 wheeler. Thx
Red River WMA has 4 wheeler access but only if you have the non-mudder tires. I have a SHreveport buddy that limited every time he went last year.
Sorry...meant to say Red River Refuge....
come on guys, where's the teal reports. Mistey got her limit plus some . . . Attachment 9783
What day id this occur? 3 of us killed 7 Saturday. Reports from most places around us have not been great yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Choudawg86
i like the pic. Seens any moccasins? We saw one as we were riding to our spot Saturday. Got my attention real good.
west of monroe. I think they've dont pretty good everytime they've gone. when he mentioned going i was worried about snakes but he said he hadnt seen any and we didnt see any today. however, this place was LOADED with them back in the spring when they were letting the water out of the ponds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tech77
Wow, little sleep and an hour trip for nothing Saturday morning. Several groups came whooshing by too early to shoot. One group lit in the decoys 15 feet from us. But after shooting time we had nothing except a headache from no sleep. It messed me up all day unti the great Tech game perked me up.
you hunt around monroe? sheveport?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tech77
Plain DealingQuote:
Originally Posted by Choudawg86
Robertson, Bradshaw and Duck Dynasty all getting a little love on Fox & Friends this am.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1879392895001/Quote:
Originally Posted by hoppinmad
Pretty hilarious if you watch the show.
TylerTechsas needs to watch this. He'll love Phil's comments near the end.
only a few days away from opening weekend. i heard a lot of ducks are holding on hwy 15 south of monroe. any other reports?
I'm going on an evening timber duck hunt just south of Bossier, just off the Red River now. Will report later.
Shot a limit: 5 greys, 1 Bluewing in South Bossier this AM.
Attachment 10196Attachment 10194Attachment 10195
We need pictures to believe it RossQuote:
Originally Posted by marketdawg
Why do most of the "mallards" in one of those pics have shovel-shaped bills?:laugh:
They must have stepped on them before laying them out for the pic.Quote:
Originally Posted by marketdawg
Attachment 10199
How's that?
My gumbo pot doesn't discriminate. On the other hand, my smoker only likes specklebellysQuote:
Originally Posted by marketdawg
The specks are by far the best.Quote:
Originally Posted by shreveportdawg
Shot the Grand Cane Timber hole this AM. Besides going in over my head it was a good way to start the New Year! Lotsa mallards and just enough wood ducks!
Attachment 10295
thats pretty sweet. was hunting darbonne creek on our place but now with the Christmas rains and the rains from yesterday the water is so swift i refuse to but my hairy daughter into the water to retrieve. have an A No1 beaver pond but for some reason they arent in there yet. possible someone has shot them out earlier. Congrats though, nice hunt
That's what I've been looking for, Ross.
found a roost today . .. . . . . .. what to do what to do :)
Charlie said y'all had some mallards on the property. Anybody been back this week? I've got a funeral on Sat but may be able to hunt Sunday/Monday...Quote:
Originally Posted by Tech77
Choudawg...CHOOT 'EM!
Don't worry, they won't come in until just after shooting time. Be careful!Quote:
Originally Posted by Choudawg86
No one has been since Monday or Tuesday as far as I know. I imagine some will go Saturday.Quote:
Originally Posted by marketdawg
Let me know how they or you do. I have a mobile phone again so feel free to text or call. I have been without one for several weeks and it's actually been kinda nice.
i need someone to place a call into ldwf and tell them there is a code BR549 in northeast claiborne parish around 5pm tomorrow :)Quote:
Originally Posted by maddawg
Great, foggy, flooded timber hunt with my dad and Gumbeaux this morning!
Attachment 10302
thats re'donk'ulous!! went back to our beaver pond this morning and the fog seemed to keep'um out with only one Woodie making a go of it.
You made the right decision. After a pretty fair day Saturday, I don't think your buddies got any shooting at PD Sunday.Quote:
Originally Posted by marketdawg
It looks like DC went in over his waders as well! Charlie got an action pic of him in his boxers and cowboy boots at the truck. We're gonna save that picture for future "leverage":laugh:
Man. It was cold for that. And that mile-plus ride back out on the four wheeler......brrrr.Quote:
Originally Posted by marketdawg
Attachment 10308
Another good pic of my dad and Gumbeau from the Sunday hunt. We both forgot our duck straps so we were just piling the ducks up on stumps around us.
Great picture, thanks for sharing, even a city boy like me smiles with a knowing nod at that pic.
Thanks Olddog. My dad and I lost one of our best hunting buddies/family friend of over 40 years on New Year's Day. We attended the funeral/wake in TX on Sat and, after a few beers, promised each other that we'd get after 'em Sunday AM. When we woke up Sunday AM the fog in Shreveport was terrible and we called each other and discussed whether we should even bother with it. After a brief discussion we decided Ralph, our now deceased friend, would have cussed us for even thinking about not going. His presence was definitely felt that morning and the duck gods smiled upon us that morning. It was truly something to see and a hunt I will never forget. They dropped out of the fog as if they were appearing from a parallel universe. Those of you that find the outdoors to be your true cathedral know what I'm referring to. The man upstairs took care of us that morning for sure and nature proved to be a true healer of spirit. I'm truly serious about this...if you look at the pic of my dad and Gumbeau above you'll se that the fog made a complete shroud around us and yet kept an open pocket directly around us in the timber-maybe 40 yards in a true circle around where we set up. If the wind shifted so did the open area around our set-up..yet it shifted to stay open around us. Wind shifted-so did the opening stay around us. Damdest thing I've truly ever seen. I can't explain it but I understand it, I guess.
Those of you who know me and what I do for a living know that I mean this about the following picture as well. The hunt is just the beginning and; what a lot of folks refer to as the hard part, is what I enjoy almost as much as the hunt itself: The final act of butchering your kill and completing the circle- It also helps if you have a meat market and some cold beers. RIP Ralph and we will have a fantastic duck dinner and toast your memory.
Attachment 10309
Awesome pics and stories. Thanks for sharing!
What a great pic.!Quote:
Originally Posted by marketdawg
However, looking at the length on that shotgun barrel makes my ears hurt.:icon_wink:
Years ago we waded in one VERY cold morning. My friend who had a short barreled 1187 let his gun go down in the water. He didn't realize it at the time and it froze an ice plug in the barrel. You can imagine what happened on the first volley. He still has the barrel of that gun. It makes a great conversation piece.
Attachment 10316
was invited on a hunt up in Jones yesterday. Had one of the better hunts I had been on in a longgggggggggggg time. 19 birds with the majority being teal with a mallard and some greys.
Cool Mike. One of buddies and two others hunted Bosco Saturday and limited on teal, mallards and gadwalls.
My experience was not as good I got two gadwalls Saturday hunting a blind myself at Plain Dealing.
19/2= limit?:icon_razz:Quote:
Originally Posted by Choudawg86
Somebody gotta take the picture MD!Quote:
Originally Posted by maddawg
19/3 doesn't work either. Bunch a cheaters!Quote:
Originally Posted by johnnylightnin
1 guy to hold the camera, 1 guy to push that little button. :D
Only the hunters that were wearing LA Tech hats were allowed in the picture.Quote:
Originally Posted by maddawg
one was a blackjack, it doesnt really countQuote:
Originally Posted by maddawg
Yeah, I noticed that in the pic.. Thought you had that one shuffled around to the back didn't you? Did you let him stop swimming before you shot him?Quote:
Originally Posted by Choudawg86
Call him a merganzer and you are off scot-free.Quote:
Originally Posted by Choudawg86
yep, closer to a coot than being a duckQuote:
Originally Posted by Tech77
duh!!Quote:
Originally Posted by maddawg
I had the day off and decided to sleep in before trying an afternoon duck hunt. 1st day to TRY to sleep in in a long while and it was pretty friggin fantastic. I had the house to myself as I cooked a huge breakfast (at 10:30) and afterwards I busied myself with the mental list of all the stuff I needed to load to go duck hunting this afternoon: 4 wheeler, waders, decoys, duck and goose calls, motion decoys, ect ect.... Being the seasoned veteran I went to the ammo closet first and put the shells in the vehicle. Then I sauntered over to the gun safe and punched in the combo and swung the handle...and it happened...
For some reason my father-in-law's lever action .22 with iron sights caught my eye. I never met him as he had already passed away when I was lucky enough to snag my wife but I can attest to a couple of things: 1)He bought good guns 2)He toook great care of them. I swear I wasn't even thinking about it but it just happened. It didn't make any sense as the weather today was terrible for squirrels. Windy, 34 degrees, just plain wrong. But I started thinking about it.
Duck hunting takes a lot of materials and labor. Deer hunting with my muzzleloader this time of year is also a pain in the ass. I had the day off and I wanted to enjoy the outdoors-plain and simple. If any of you other outdoorsmen were brought-up like me then you know what I mean. I put any idea of ducks and deer aside and headed to the oak bottoms (and maybe a deer stand where I had been watching squirrels get fat on my corn all season). It was a great idea. I've got three squirrels quartered and simmering in white wine, chicken broth, tomatoes, garlic, bell peppers and onions. The shots were true, the woods were blustery, windy and cold as they should be. I was shivering as I cleaned my game in the lamplight. The house smells like a pot of goodness and heartiness is simmering. I think sometimes you have to go back to the basics to get back to happy.
Ross, you have the soul of an outdoor writer in you. I enjoyed reading that.Quote:
Originally Posted by marketdawg
YES he does.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tech77
Loved it.
Not about duck hunting..again; but thought I'd put this here as there isn't any better place for it:
Rabbit Tastes Good:
For most of the folks these days they wouldn't know if this is true. I'm here to tell you that it is so. The rabbit was my first kill/clean/and cook all by myself animal. I shot it in the woods behind our house with a Daisy pump air rifle and cleaned (butchered) it behind our garage while sitting on a 5-gallon bucket. Then I stewed it with a bunch of stuff from my mom's pantry. This made it a very large milestone in my outdoorsman life. Come to think of it the rabbit is a large milestone in my professional life as well. I own a butcher shop/prepared food store. Without the rabbit I might be selling insurance or saving lives as a physician! Okay..I'm much better suited for my current gig but you get the point.
Rabbit is one of the most utilized wild game species in rural American history. It filled many a stew pot and saved many a farmer's/frontiersman's family from starvation yet somehow it has fallen from grace. Duck hunting is the new "cool" thing to do and deer hunting is big these days as well. You hardly hear of people going out rabbit hunting anymore. I think it is because most of the good rabbit hunting is found on expensive deer/duck leases and the folks that hunt these properties just don't know a good thing when they see it.
I sell rabbit at my upscale grocery store. It is farm-raised but rabbit nonetheless. The folks that buy them wrapped in shrink wrapped freezer packaging wouldn't; for the most part, know which end of a rabbit quacks and which end farts. These folks that do buy the rabbit know good food, however.
It has been some time since I shot a rabbit. I think the last time was when my brother, Brett Barclay and I were pheasant hunting in Kansas and all these darn rabbits kept running around as the bird dogs were working. The guides asked us not to shoot the rabbits as it "might ruin the dogs" as they were trained for pheasant only. If we shot rabbits over those dogs they might just chase rabbits instead. Rabbits are fun and those dogs knew it. I explained to him that we were from Louisiana and if we weren't going to shoot these rabbits now he better put the dogs up after we were done shooting these birds and let us get after some rabbits. My brother and I shot rabbits, without the dogs, and we shot a lot of them. Ruin a dog? I thought dogs were meant for rabbits?
Tonight I purposely sat with a .22 rifle on the edge of a clearing and waited for a rabbit to show itself at dark so I could shoot it. It did, a squirrel did, and I did. I wondered as I drove into town this evening: if I dropped by my parents house, unannounced, and barged into the kitchen waving a dead, bloody rabbit around if my mom would still show the same sort of "enthusiasm" she showed back when I was 9 or 10 yrs old? I also wondered if my dad would sit on a 5 gallon bucket behind the garage and help me clean it...the same spot where we've cleaned countless squirrels, doves, ducks, deer and a few rabbits. I bet they both would. I've got good parents and a rabbit just might prove it again- but I'm not gonna test it tonight.
Yeah, you need to be sending these in to be published. This is the kind of stuff folks love to read.
How about posting the pix from our duck hunt Saturday?
They didn't come out very clear as the sun was shining on my camera but I'll post them later on today. We did end the season on a good note though and Tech77 had a nice bag of ducks including a beautiful Bull Pintail. I did have to buy a new pair of tennis shoes, however, as the farm dog ate my other pair that I set by my truck when we went out hunting that day. That's what happens when you work in a butcher shop..dogs really like your shoes.
I should have moved that sprig over into the sunlight. Thanks, Ross.
I charged my mojo duck in our bedroom the night before the last hunt. I accidentally left an orange foot off the decoy lying on my sink counter. When my wife got up she saw it and was startled, thinking it might be real. "You know how you are," she said. LOL
My wife is used to fur/fin/feathers in our fridge but I think even I would be pushing it if a random "part" was left in or near the bathroom sink.:laugh:
Fwied Wabbit, Wima Beans, Mahshy Taters wif Sauteed Mushroom Gwavy....Heeheeheehee (in my best Elmer Fudd waff). It was Deewicious!
Attachment 10373
Like they said on Hee Haw... "YUM, YUM!"Quote:
Originally Posted by marketdawg
Here's one from a "while" back. Cutest duck hunter EVER and she'll still go with me with the following prerequisites: 1)It's a nice, sunny afternoon and she can read books (or her Kindle) in the blind and 2) I pack a nice lunch that will a make nice, sunny afternoon more enjoyable AND there had better be plenty of ducks for her to shoot at...shoot AT being the keyword..she doesn't share well when they are flying and if your wife is as cute as mine AND duck hunts then I bet you'd do the same as me..accommodate!
Attachment 10376