Ducks on the pond

[Fishnclifff]

I was sitting over dekes once and all of a sudden pop...  smack ZING......  Then again.........   I was like what the heck...... then pop spash by the dekes.   Some poacher was trying to kill the ducks with a .22.  Imagine his surprise.

I was hunting with my dad in a field once.This was back when we used a lot of silo decoys and we had some of them set up around the sides of our blinds to break up the outlines. We were probably 150-200 yards out into a wheat field. There was loud bang and three decoys went flying. I had no idea what was going on. We jumped up out of the blinds asking each other what they were shooting at. Then I saw a white SUV peeling out of the shoulder on the road closest to us. The dbag fired off a round from a rifle from his truck at our dekes. I was so glad he didn't line up on one of the decoys by our blinds...

There was a kid killed, up north I believe from some *censored* doing that.
Kid didn't come home. They found him in his layout blind.

[scout/sniper]

Shoot 'em in the air over the decoys.
It's much more satisfying to know you can hit a bird on the move than one sitting on a pond.
My old hunting partner had decoys with bb's rolling around in them, dead giveaway.

I thought everybody had decoys with shot rolling in them.
 I don't think that's always from pasteing swimmers. Its amazing how fast a cripple can dive and dissappear. Pays to shoot 'em quick. Every once in awhile a decoy takes some of the hit.

Yes it happens. I just like giving him crap.

[scout/sniper]

I was sitting over dekes once and all of a sudden pop...  smack ZING......  Then again.........   I was like what the heck...... then pop spash by the dekes.   Some poacher was trying to kill the ducks with a .22.  Imagine his surprise.

I was hunting with my dad in a field once.This was back when we used a lot of silo decoys and we had some of them set up around the sides of our blinds to break up the outlines. We were probably 150-200 yards out into a wheat field. There was loud bang and three decoys went flying. I had no idea what was going on. We jumped up out of the blinds asking each other what they were shooting at. Then I saw a white SUV peeling out of the shoulder on the road closest to us. The dbag fired off a round from a rifle from his truck at our dekes. I was so glad he didn't line up on one of the decoys by our blinds...

There was a kid killed, up north I believe from some *censored* doing that.
Kid didn't come home. They found him in his layout blind.

I've never heard of this before, I hunt from a boat.
It's scary idiots do this.

[aaronoto]

Typically only happens to me at LST, or when some Teal come screaming in out of nowhere, but I'll scare them off the water and then shoot.  I won't judge people who shoot them on the water though, whatever floats your boat!

[h2ofowlr]

I was sitting over dekes once and all of a sudden pop...  smack ZING......  Then again.........   I was like what the heck...... then pop spash by the dekes.   Some poacher was trying to kill the ducks with a .22.  Imagine his surprise.

I was hunting with my dad in a field once.This was back when we used a lot of silo decoys and we had some of them set up around the sides of our blinds to break up the outlines. We were probably 150-200 yards out into a wheat field. There was loud bang and three decoys went flying. I had no idea what was going on. We jumped up out of the blinds asking each other what they were shooting at. Then I saw a white SUV peeling out of the shoulder on the road closest to us. The dbag fired off a round from a rifle from his truck at our dekes. I was so glad he didn't line up on one of the decoys by our blinds...

One of the Avery guys, I believe had this happen to him up in Canada and was killed by the shot about 4 years back.  I know they have problems with this in our area as well.  Unfortunately one of the parties involved may have gotten a get out of jail card due to who his dad is and who he used to work for.

[seth30]

I shoot them any way I can, priority one is the freezer.

[Heartsblood]

Is it a  to shoot these ducks or are you one of the guys who chomps-at-the-bit for an easy kill...

 
That's darned funny way to set up a discussion!

[Green Horn]

Looks like everyone here likes a challenge. Just wondering what everyone else thought.

[birdstew]

For some of the folks I seen last weekend sky busting would have done better shooting ducks on the water. I like to jump shot if the blind is slow. But always wait until they jump up off water. More target area.

[Patarero]

Highest percentage shot is in the face, cupped up or overhead.  Water raking is low percentage shot at distance.  Better odds to drop them just after they flush.  To each their own though. 

However, diving cripples get the steel #7 water swat treatment if they have eluded the dogs.

[92xj]

You know you've done something right if you can kill a limit of birds in your decoys on the water.  I would say 95% of duck hunters could not accomplish that task.

[singleshot12]

I have sluiced greenheads when younger and in the past. But now it just doesn't feel right unless they are jumped and on the wing. Don't matter how much I feel like duck dinner tonight,just ain't right unless the bird has a fleeting chance at life. It's like "fair chase - - fair game"

[singleshot12]

I shoot them any way I can, priority one is the freezer.

hmm? Do you flock shoot too?

[lokidog]

I shoot them any way I can, priority one is the freezer.

hmm? Do you flock shoot too?

That's hardly a fair comparison.  Shooting a duck on the water is in no way comparable to potentially breaking the LAW by dropping more than a limit's worth of ducks.  Ethics are a personal choice, your are yours, yours are not someone else's.       Some people might think it is unethical to shoot at a duck with anything other than a .410, does that make all the 12g hunters unethical??   

[seth30]

I shoot them any way I can, priority one is the freezer.

hmm? Do you flock shoot too?

I see your at it again.  Do you ever get sick of stirring the pot?