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Quick Hunting area questions
wadu1:
The Nisqually Delta can be a good area. But you need a boat, bigger boat hunt the river small boat hunt the McAllester Creak area.
ljsommer:
--- Quote from: JBG on October 07, 2024, 04:55:44 PM ---Holy heck dude, might as well ask to take my wife to dinner lol
Remember the 80/20 rule, 80% scouting and 20% hunting. Duck hunting location information is a close kept secrete and should be. Your best bet would be to leave the gun in the truck for a few weeks and just take your hiking boots, bino's, and plan to buy a couple tanks of gas to go answer those questions yourself. If you have a specific question about a specific area someone might, might help you but generally you are seen as competition to other duck hunters.
I just got a new to me duck boat this year so I am excited to leave the gun at home and just go learn a new spot for the first few weeks.
As for gear get a good decoy bag with built in straps and belt. https://www.wildernesspacks.net/product-page/the-flyway
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I think this is probably 100% spot on, though I am not speaking from experience as I've only been on one bird hunt of any kind in my entire life. However, this is also the reason that I am not willing to try to get into duck hunting! My wife keeps talking about it like it's going to be great, and the success rates are so much higher than deer. I am looking at it differently: "We already suck at every kind of hunting we do, let's not add to the list!". I feel like we should probably figure out at least one of the kinds of hunting we do before picking up another one to be failures at ;)
ducks4days:
--- Quote from: JBG on October 07, 2024, 04:55:44 PM ---Holy heck dude, might as well ask to take my wife to dinner lol
Remember the 80/20 rule, 80% scouting and 20% hunting. Duck hunting location information is a close kept secrete and should be. Your best bet would be to leave the gun in the truck for a few weeks and just take your hiking boots, bino's, and plan to buy a couple tanks of gas to go answer those questions yourself. If you have a specific question about a specific area someone might, might help you but generally you are seen as competition to other duck hunters.
I just got a new to me duck boat this year so I am excited to leave the gun at home and just go learn a new spot for the first few weeks.
As for gear get a good decoy bag with built in straps and belt. https://www.wildernesspacks.net/product-page/the-flyway
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:yeah:
My dad taught me a bunch of stuff, and the other 75% I learned from wasting gas and almost dying trying to find out what areas that I have access to are worth spending time in. Nobody buys completed jigsaw puzzles because the point of them is in the journey, get yourself some energy drinks and a gas card and a good pair of binoculars and go solve the puzzle.
hdshot:
Waterfowl hunting is like eating Chinese food, shoot a limit and a hour later you want to shoot another limit. :drool:
metlhead:
Yum, hot duck stir fry.
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