Lets Get this Thread Started. Who is ready to bust some beaks?

NDHunter · Jun 23, 2016

Will just be hunting close to home in ND this fall. Hoping to hunt with some of my wife's in-laws this year. They absolutely slaughter the honkers on the Missouri River in December. They had some 50 goose days last year.

How late does your season go to?

kidoggy · Jun 23, 2016

I stopped hunting them dang dirty ducks because they taste fowl to me.

NDHunter · Jun 23, 2016

kidoggy said:
I stopped hunting them dang dirty ducks because they taste fowl to me.

Just gotta know how to cook them! With a good recipe, they're pretty tasty.

birdhunter · Jun 23, 2016

Missed last season because I was building our house. Can't wait to get out there this year. My dog will be happy as ever to go duck hunting again. I love duck poppers. Wrp tem in bacon and add a jalapeño on top. Sprinkle with cheese. Very tasty. My zone opens up the third weekend in September and goes til the first weekend in january. Won a shotgun last year, can't wait to use it.

tmitch · Jun 25, 2016

Who's ready to bust some beaks?

I'm always ready. Southeast ID can be good if the migration happens right. Love smashing honkers, and really like duck hunting any water source I can. Cupped and committed is just a cool thing to watch.

Fink · Jun 26, 2016

I cannot wait to start shooting ducks! Bought a new duck boat a few weeks ago, 1654 Prodigy Open, with a 35 horse Mudbuddy. Already had it on some flood water, and a local river. The boat is a monster, drove across 10 yards of dry ground, jump a huge log, and a bunch of other nonsense. Duck season is gonna be real fun this year!

NDHunter · Jun 26, 2016

It's always interesting to me to hear about places that have good duck hunting. Growing up in ND, all I ever read was that ND was THE place to go. I've since found out that there are lots of other places that in fact have some tremendous duck hunting with very little coverage. I'd love to go out to SW Montana or Idaho sometime and hunt some of the rivers that have divers on them late in the season.

Here's one of my favorite recipes for ducks and also incredibly easy:

Put duck breasts in crockpot. Cover with apple juice. Cook on low all day. Take breasts out and shred meat. Cover with favorite BBQ sauce and make into BBQ sandwiches. Try it this year. It's great! Could also do with any type of big game roast.

Gr8bawana · Jun 26, 2016

kidoggy said:
I stopped hunting them dang dirty ducks because they taste fowl to me.

I stopped for the same reason then I just couldn't justify paying so much for non-toxic shotgun shells to shoot something I wouldn't eat and just give away.

Fink · Jun 26, 2016

NDHunter said:
It's always interesting to me to hear about places that have good duck hunting. Growing up in ND, all I ever read was that ND was THE place to go. I've since found out that there are lots of other places that in fact have some tremendous duck hunting with very little coverage. I'd love to go out to SW Montana or Idaho sometime and hunt some of the rivers that have divers on them late in the season.

There's a bunch of neat places to go shoot ducks. I'd love to make a trip up to the Chesapeake Bay, and hunt Cans where it all started. The Mallards in the green timber flats in NE Arkansas.... That one might have to happen this fall. Redheads, Pintails and Blue wings in coastal Texas. Late season mallards the small rivers in MT, ID or WY would be a ton of fun too.

I've saved close to a month of vacation for duck season this year, will for sure hunt Kansas and Missouri. Might go to Iowa for their early season, and really need to hit Arkansas.

ivorytip · Jun 26, 2016

in my early 20's I had the opportunity to hunt ducks over rice fields in Arkansas, Stuttgart . I don't hunt ducks, I go every now an then with friends and have a blast but after Stuttgart experience nothing can compare. I remember that first morning, before sunlight the sky was loud and you could see the shadows of hundreds of thousands of water foul circling the sky's. was a surreal experience.

NDHunter · Jun 26, 2016

Fink said:
There's a bunch of neat places to go shoot ducks. I'd love to make a trip up to the Chesapeake Bay, and hunt Cans where it all started. The Mallards in the green timber flats in NE Arkansas.... That one might have to happen this fall. Redheads, Pintails and Blue wings in coastal Texas. Late season mallards the small rivers in MT, ID or WY would be a ton of fun too.

I've saved close to a month of vacation for duck season this year, will for sure hunt Kansas and Missouri. Might go to Iowa for their early season, and really need to hit Arkansas.

Yea there are definitely a lot of really cool places to hunt. Have you ever hunted divers much? I was living in Michigan for 4 years recently and did quite a bit of diver hunting from a layout boat with a friend. That is super cool! Lots of different kinds of birds and lots of fun. I would highly recommend it if you ever have the chance.

Fink · Jun 27, 2016

Never really go into the divers very much. We get a few on the rivers/bigger water, but we stay pretty busy with mallards throughout the majority of the season, so I've never really done much diver shooting.
It would be fun to shoot some divers, but the water they put those layout boats on terrifies me. I'm more of a layout boat in 12 inches of flooded corn kind of guy.

mgorm16640 · Jul 22, 2016

Ducks

brianboh said:
What are your plans this winter.

I plan to just hunt here in Wyoming. I got to say it was the best duck hunting I ever had last year. It blows GA and North Alabama out of the water. Just not even a comparison.

I didn't know WY had great duck hunting. I just moved to Worland a few months ago. I have been planning on alot of bird hunting as I have to wait a year to get residency for big game tags. I have been planning on hitting the pheasants pretty hard with my Brittany but we also have a Golden pup (1.5 years old) who is a retrieving machine.

I have hunted ducks in the past in PA, but that was mostly pass shooting on channels in the morning and evenings. Where do you hunt ducks here in WY. I'm close to a few mountain lakes as well as the Bighorn River.

wy-tex · Jul 25, 2016

I jump them from the small creeks down here. Laramie river can have some good duck hunting.

mgorm16640 · Jul 25, 2016

wy-tex said:
I jump them from the small creeks down here. Laramie river can have some good duck hunting.

Thanks that is good to know. I'm trying to get a plan put together for this fall/winter.

Horsenhike · Jul 25, 2016

I'm gonna try shooting them from my kayak this year. Jump them out of the cattails.

I've done it a bunch on accident without a gun ready. I got a surprise for them this year.

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