Hunting Washington Forum
Other Hunting => Waterfowl => Topic started by: ducksdoom12 on November 10, 2010, 03:25:19 PM
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just finished off my first ever jump shooting limit!! It took me less then 45 min. to do it, and I jumped the same flock of birds 4 different times :chuckle: gotta love young, early season, stupid birds right! :mgun:
ended up with 2 teal (1 drake and 1 hen), 2 mallards (2 hens), and 3 widgeon (1 drake and 2 hens).
im working on getting the picture up, but am having trobles getting it uploaded soooooo, to be continued.
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good deal glad you got into them :IBCOOL:
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Good to see someone happy about banging away at hens :bash:
What's your problem? Some sort of sexist?
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Not that he did anything illegal but i get annoyed by bags of almost all hens. We should be hunting for drakes and get the occasional hen as a by-product. In many species males can service multiple females and if you lose a female then lose all her offspring, lose a male and someone else will do the job. There is also a hen mortality factor due to the increased risk involved with nesting. Hens are much more susceptible to predation when nesting or raising young. I could have limited every time I have hunted so far this year but it would have been because I was intentionally gunning for hens. It may not be illegal but it is unethical.
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Get a life.
Nice shoot Ducksdoom.
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krbyers.... chill out.. each to their own! let 'em do what they want... as long as its legal they can do as they please... just because you don't do it, doesn't mean other people can't... there is a reason you can only shoot 2 hen mallards... hmmmmmmmm you don't think they take all that into consideration when they make up the limits!? come on man... relax and do your own thing..
way to go ducks on the limit! you bum.. I was at baseball...
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It may not be illegal but it is unethical.
Wow thats not very cool.
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Does hen meat taste different than drake meat?? Didn't think so... I'll shoot a duck, regardless of sex, I don't eat the feathers anyway......
Kyle
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Not that he did anything illegal but i get annoyed by bags of almost all hens. We should be hunting for drakes and get the occasional hen as a by-product. In many species males can service multiple females and if you lose a female then lose all her offspring, lose a male and someone else will do the job. There is also a hen mortality factor due to the increased risk involved with nesting. Hens are much more susceptible to predation when nesting or raising young. I could have limited every time I have hunted so far this year but it would have been because I was intentionally gunning for hens. It may not be illegal but it is unethical.
give it a rest dude, once people start bitchin like this then this whole section loses the fun to it, and I was trying for the drakes but it was a flock of 5 doz birds with 90 percent hens, the only shots I had on drakes were the teal and widgeon drake that I shot, and on top of that, they were all young and not very colored up, so it made it hard as hell to tell the differance between a brown drake and a brown hen. take a zanax and chill dude :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash:
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Great post DD. Sounds like you did well and had a great time. Can't wait to see the pic's!!!!!! :brew:
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CP what is with the full of *censored* comment, I wasn't being rude I was simply stating facts you obviously know as much about biology as you do about hunting, nothing. I am sure they take it into consideration, which is why in some states 1 hen mallard counts as two birds toward your limit and in other states you are only allowed 1 hen mallard. I am sure they also take into consideration that most hunters will aim for drakes instead of hens, and what are they going to do say "you can't shoot any hens." It's not pheasant hunting where the birds are drastically different and they don't fly in flocks. If they did that most people would be afraid of hunting because they wouldn't want to risk hitting a hen. Luckily for jacka**es like CP there are activist groups such as DU that wouldn't let that happen and all I am saying is that we should do our part an if possible refrain from hen hunting just so we can have a full bag. But then again you westies are all alike take everything and leave nothing.
Where do you come off with a grand total of 9 posts calling people names? Opinions are fine but do you have to be such a dick? What we have here is a
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Great post DD. Sounds like you did well and had a great time. Can't wait to see the pic's!!!!!! :brew:
thanks! I take my pics with my phone then send them into facebook, and for whatever reason their not coming up on my facebook page when I send them in, sooooo as soon as I figure it out, ill have some pics up.
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:) Good job and congrats on a fun and successful hunt. Don't pay any attention to the jealous naysayers there's always one to rain on the parade . :stup:
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Pretty sure that hunting harvest has little to no affect on waterfowl populations. If a certain spieces is declining it is because of habitat loss, not over hunting/shooting too many hens. One of the good things about the pacific flyway is that there are many fewer hunters than other flyways like the mississippi, where there are a lot of hunters. Also the pacific flyway has a very healthy population of birds, making the 2 hen limit possible for mallards. I don't know if you realize it or not, but I believe the limit is 8 ducks in B.C. and 4 of them can be brown mallards.
With that said I kill hens. I would prefer to shoot drakes, but I'm not going to let it ruin my chances at a limit because I wont shoot the hen teal that came into the decoys :chuckle:.
IF ITS BROWN IT'S DOWN!!! :rockin: :rockin: :rockin:
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krbyers84, calm down posts like that will not be tolerated. you are new here and need to be respectfull to other members, and not use the language in the posts that are now gone. keep it clean.
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I am not trying to be a "tough guy" and no I don't spend a lot of time posting on here because I don't have much time to get on here and I apologize if I offended anyone, but I do not take kindly to people who say that I am full of $%^& when they obviously know nothing and, if they researched the facts, would know that I was simply relaying said facts. I didn't come here to start a flame war, and if you guys are fine gunning for hens kudos to you all I am saying is don't be the ones bit%^&$ when there are poor bird numbers. If I offended you I'm sorry but the truth hurts sometimes. Gotta go have dinner with the wife and kid now, later.
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but I do not take kindly to people who say that I am full of sh^& when they obviously know nothing
the same goes for you, you dont know anything about me, or the other people you started attacking. If you did know me, you would know that I am one of the biggest "ethical" hunters out there. and do everything I can to keep that up. lets leave it at that, and everyone, lets try to keep this kind of thread to a minimum this year. it ruins the point of this awesome site.
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This is cleaned up. keep it on track now, everyone.
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A few here a few there. The population needs to be ballanced out a little. Many clubs push the all drake limit, so there is room for you to shoot a few hens. You will have to shoot more drakes on your next outting to make some feel a little better. :chuckle: I try to take the drakes, but sometime the hens just get in the way. :dunno:
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hens taste better, but drakes have more meat on their legs and wings. :twocents:
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krbyers84, calm down posts like that will not be tolerated. you are new here and need to be respectfull to other members, and not use the language in the posts that are now gone. keep it clean.
I second that..post like that should have you kicked off.
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krbyers84, calm down posts like that will not be tolerated. you are new here and need to be respectfull to other members, and not use the language in the posts that are now gone. keep it clean.
I second that..post like that should have you kicked off.
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DD12 keep up the good work! There are plenty of people out their only shooting Drakes, the population will be fine. A lot of my hunting buddies only shoot Drakes and make fun of me because I shoot hens. It only proves to me that they are more worried about what other people think than what is truly ethical. The state provides us with our guide lines, the rest is up to each one of us individually to choose what makes us happy and prosperous! As for me, if the birds are working well, drakes only. If its going to be a rough day, if it flies.... it dies!
Happiness is a warm shotgun!
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ok, finally got the picture to upload!!! here it is. and upon further review of the two "mallard hens" I discovered that they were actually 2 gadwall hens
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ok, finally got the picture to upload!!! here it is. and upon further review of the two "mallard hens" I discovered that they were actually 2 gadwall hens
upon further review by who.....??? :rolleyes: come on now... give credit where credit is due... :chuckle:
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:P
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Nice bunch of birds DD. Your hunting buddy looks pretty pleased too!!!!
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yes, jordan, it was you who id'ed then as gadwall hens
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yes, jordan, it was you who id'ed then as gadwall hens
:chuckle: :chuckle: thanks again for takin' me down there yesterday. that was pretty dang cool
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ya man, just wait till we get some snow the ground and that spot has not been shot up the day before, there will be 6 times the number of birds that were there yesterday :IBCOOL:
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Good lookin pup DD.....jump shootin is a good time.....keep on slayin them birds!
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ya man, just wait till we get some snow the ground and that spot has not been shot up the day before, there will be 6 times the number of birds that were there yesterday :IBCOOL:
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Very cool pic!! even the dog looks like he had a great time!
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nice work!
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haha, ya she had a great time (when does she not when out hunting though, haha)