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Duck Movements during season
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02/24/23 09:17 AM
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Last edited by cartervj; 02/24/23 09:19 AM.
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Re: Duck Movements during season
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02/24/23 09:48 AM
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I’m not completely sold in it. I do think it is reasonable. I’ve not seen the end of the season birds for several years now. They never got here or stayed for long.
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Re: Duck Movements during season
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02/24/23 11:55 AM
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Going off my duck hole and my neighbors. We used to regularly, during season see 200 plus woodies and 40-50 big ducks per day. Now very few. The most I’ve seen was 30 woodies or so and couple of big ducks. I did have a group of 20 mallards hanging out and spooky as heck. I run a cell cam on my duck hole so I get to see who drops in and so forth. That way don’t bother them to see what’s there.
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Re: Duck Movements during season
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02/24/23 01:13 PM
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I’m not completely sold in it. I do think it is reasonable. I’ve not seen the end of the season birds for several years now. They never got here or stayed for long. They never got here. I have good friends that own several hundred acres in Etowah Co and specifically plant, flood and whatever else for ducks. Last 4-5 years have been pathetic. I always get a couple invites and they told me it is not worth wasting the money on it. I guess North Dakota is my bucket list trip to at least kill some good ducks.
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Re: Duck Movements during season
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02/25/23 08:57 AM
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Arkansas has piles of visible birds right now. Kinda proves the hunting pressure deal. They’re free to move about now and focus on food and the upcoming breeding season. I think it’s like turkey number fluctuations, besides the weather there’s numerous other variables to all this. Throw in hunting pressures and walla here we are.
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Re: Duck Movements during season
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Arkansas has piles of visible birds right now. New water and lot of food has them hanging.on. I wonder if that cold front is pushing new birds in there too.
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Re: Duck Movements during season
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02/25/23 04:57 PM
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Nobody has brought up the deal where the states further North drain there spots and quit putting out Grain in order to keep Ducks from going south.....once the southern States season is over. Short stoppin’ SOBs!!
experience is a freakin' awesome teacher....
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Re: Duck Movements during season
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02/25/23 08:38 PM
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I love how there’s this well done, thorough study done with the latest technology and all us duck hunters are like “nah that’s BS” Lol i ain’t even much of a duck hunter and was chuckling about this same thing Saw a pile of mallards today in west Tennessee just swimming around as I was driving by
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Re: Duck Movements during season
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02/26/23 01:07 PM
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I thought it was a very good article and even shared it with a few close friends that duck hunt.. The one experiment that I think they should have done was to actually shoot at the ducks with blanks and see if that resulted in a change to the patterns and for how long. The result of the boat surprised me a little so I would have liked to compare the blanks. I agree I followed along on when in particular. She’d leave out and come back in after shooting time. Just like flushing ducks out of the hole. They rarely come back during shooting hours. We noticed this on our duck holes years ago when more and more duck hunters enters the game. Back in the 80s and 90s on our ducks holes we’d flush out and wait. They’d be back in 15-30 minutes. We only did this a few times a year. Now a days, flush them and they are gone I can look at my duck Joe I’ve had experience with for 20 plus years. They no longer use the hole as in the past. They go straight to the corner with all the cover. Young willows and ash with lists of grasses. I’m gonna plant half in corn again to see if they use ten stalks for cover. The hole is 8-9 acres and has a1/4 in timber I’m opening a hole in it. Woodies already use it but going a little bigger in hopes for big ducks. Also planting hardwoods around the corner they’re using now. Chores and Tupelo’s mixed in
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Re: Duck Movements during season
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02/27/23 05:03 PM
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The whole thing is stupid.... Basically the reason we are NOT seeing and killing ducks in the Southern United States during duck season is because they are hiding?
Probably one of the dumbest articles I have ever read.
When the Temps dropped to 0 degrees for days where were all those red legs? Hiding right?
Try... Nowhere. They are not there. Why? Whole nuther discussion.... I certainly have my theories which DO NOT include "hiding".
Ducks have wintered on refuges my entire life and not left. That's Duck Hunting 101. The key is to have so many birds in the area in general that they cannot "hide" on the refuge systems. They spill over where hunters have a chance. THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT IN A REFUGE!
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