I've always wanted to kill a black duck. Just one for the wall. They're a dang pretty bird. Wink wink

There�s one in Jackson too. Never been there and not seen em. There are some places that they just like to go I guess.

But I despise duck hunting with a passion. If I never shoot one again I'll die a happy man. Turned down several trips to Illinois last few years on great places just cause I hate it now. Don't know why. Just do

Matt, you would love Texas goose hunting then. Go out before light and lay on yer back on frozen ground till noon and watch 10,000 geese fly over you 200 yards up. Maybe 10 geese all morning will come in below 100 yards high. Move and do it again that afternoon. Never again.

That's a big ole negative for a stupid goose either. I just don't play that game anymore

I got this new over & under and I kind of got just a little itch to go duck hunting. But I�m holding it off for the moment.

I am afraid that my OK duck hunt is gonna turn out to be something like that. Every time I go duck hunting, the ducks have always gone somewhere else.

But shooting at any kind of flying critter is more fun to me than sitting in a tree waiting on a deer to walk by. I'll take a good crow hunt over a deer hunt any day.

Duck hunters are just like deer hunters. We go hunting based on hope, not the realistic expectations of experience. When I deer hunt, I get a shot at a mature, mountable buck every couple of years. Those days sitting in the stand with no deer or small bucks and does are easily forgotten. The days when a hot doe is being chased by a never ending parade of bucks stay etched in our mind. Same with duck hunting. The slow days are forgotten but the days when the birds are migrating and flocks are landing in the decoys, we remember forever.