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Preparing For The Upcoming Duck Season

All duck hunters know there are basic chores that have to be performed prior to the arrival of duck season. These tasks include blind brushing, decoy readiness, retriever training, boat inspections, and wader repairs. These are jobs that almost every water-fowler performs routinely before the beginning of each duck season.

Show Me Yours!

Show me yours  ….

OK, if you show me yours  ….

Yours is longer than mine.

I turn 60 today (or was it yesterday … hell, I can’t remember)

January, 2012

Today I enter my 7th decade of life and I don’t even remember getting here. In the blink of an eye, I have been shoved from middle-age right into senior citizenship.

You Almost Have To Be A Brain Surgeon

From The 2006 Duck Season

The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission approved a 60-day configuration for the 2005-06 duck season. Simply put it allows a 6-duck per day bag limit. But, it is a long way from being that simple. First off we have different hunting zones in the state of Louisiana.

Hunting Is Gets Tougher As You Get Older

I came in the other day and told Barbara that I will have to stop duck hunting. My eyesight has gotten so bad that when I drop a duck I can’t see far enough to tell where it fell.

“Why not hunt with Bob and Will? she asks.

Why and How I Came Home From The Camp Drunk

I arrived home from the camp and was half in the bag.

Barbara started in on me about how I needed to be a little more productive in my free time, and that I was much too old to be drinking like this in the middle of the day.

A Typical Day At The Mallard Inn

There have been many descriptions of duck hunters over the years and most are not flattering. So I thought I would take a typical day from this past duck season and try and capture the true essence of a duck hunter.

2018 Numbers are Down but Populations Remain Healthy

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) today released its report on 2018 Trends in Duck Breeding Populations, based on surveys conducted in May and early June by FWS and Canadian Wildlife Service.

Overall duck numbers in the survey area remain high. Total populations were estimated at 41.2 million breeding ducks in the traditional survey area, 13 percent lower than last year’s estimate of 47.3 million and 17 percent above the long-term average. The projected mallard fall flight index is 11.4 million birds, down from the 2017 estimate of 12.9 million.  Republished from Ducks Unlimited.Com

Bob has a chocolate lab, “Coach”, who has turned out to be an excellent hunting dog so it came as no surprise when a fellow hunter wanted to breed his female lab to Bob’s male.

“How did everything go with breeding “Coach”, I asked him

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