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| Author: | keestan31 [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Shooting Hens |
So do you shoot hens or just pick out the drakes? Lets hear your reasoning behing your shooting style. |
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| Author: | keestan31 [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
I shoot whatever comes in the dekes, spoonies drakes hens whatever comes in is going to get some steel thrown at it. |
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| Author: | kwak smacker19 [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
I shoot ducks I don't discriminate lol sent from my evo using tapatalk |
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| Author: | MaXXis85 [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
| Author: | keestan31 [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
| Author: | DeathMetalDukk [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
I don't shoot sht I ain't gonna eat, and I don't want a limit of spoonies or mergansers if some gadwall come by. But I'll take me a limit of hens. |
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| Author: | keestan31 [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
| Author: | Ruddyduck [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
Depends on the day. If the mallards are flying good, I try to have a gentlemen shoot. On a tuff day, anything that comes in! |
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| Author: | woodduck224 [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 4:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
I just make it rain . If it is cupped up and landing gear down then it is getting sprayed in the face. Unless I have my limit of that bird. |
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| Author: | oncall [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 4:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
Ground check!!
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| Author: | duckduckboom [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 4:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
At 7 30 it is a NO fly zone. thats all i am gonna say about that. Nice edit maxxis |
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| Author: | Gigafowl [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 5:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
I try to let them put their feet down and pick the drakes that are the prettiest... But if they come rippin thru I cut the ones I can draw a bead on.... Also learning to ID birds at distance helps to pick the call and make those kind of decisions ahead of time - so the rookies can shoot the "happy mallards" and bluebills - LOL |
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| Author: | riverratdm84 [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 6:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
I always say beggers can't be choosey. |
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| Author: | Woodiebuster [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 6:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
It would have to be a shit ton of ducks with the perfect set-up for me to go drakes only. |
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| Author: | brasso [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
Hens taste the same as drakes. I won't shoot trash ducks, because I'd rather not clean and eat the stinkin things. I have made a few hunts where I shot JUST drakes, only because I had a bet with a buddy. Most peoples reasoning in shooting just drakes is it makes for a better picture, that's pretty much the only reason I can even see behind it. |
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| Author: | dog walker [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
It's hard to pick out the poule d'eau hens! |
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| Author: | lastchance [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Re: Shooting Hens |
| Author: | simplepeddler [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
If i have a visible easy choice.....then I will let a hen fly.....if not well then it's on like donkey kong |
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| Author: | Migrator [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
| Author: | brasso [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
| Author: | dog walker [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
Well you see there is a higher drake to hen ratio, hence the drakes only thing. It's like the duck that laid the golden egg thing. They don't fuck themselves but there are more drakes to hens every year. Next question |
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| Author: | quackconsumer [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 8:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
I just pick out and shoot only da banded birds. Drake or hen if it has got a band it's goin down. I let all da other ducks keep flyin. |
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| Author: | backwaterballer [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 8:09 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
Someone has to keep the spoony population down. As for the hen thing 2 hours after shooting time anything goes |
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| Author: | DeuceChunker [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
| Author: | MaXXis85 [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
LOL I like eating ducks too. Limits are usually out of the question, so I shoot to eat 
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| Author: | Migrator [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
Thank you Dog walker. We buy their books, send 'em to school & they eat the f*ckn pages out of 'em!  So now we have established the mallard hen, as opposed to Brasso, does not phuck themselves!
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| Author: | T-Bubba [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
| Author: | dog walker [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
| Author: | MaXXis85 [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
| Author: | T-Bubba [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
He has to come with me to kill ducks |
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| Author: | MaXXis85 [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
| Author: | Crews [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Shooting Hens |
A wise man named Ben McNabb once said........ " dead hens don't make babies, but live hens don't make gravies".
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| Author: | MaXXis85 [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
| Author: | T-Bubba [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
| Author: | med [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
If there are plenty of ducks I do try to shoot drakes. I don't sweat it if there happens to be some collateral damage in the process. If a lone mallard hen is working the dekes or just falls into the spread I let her be. Just a personal choice on my part. |
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| Author: | OwenDickeson [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Shooting Hens |
6/6 of my limit this morning were hens. |
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| Author: | Da-Cajun-Angla [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
| Author: | DuckHunterF250 [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
we try to shoot only drakes if possible but sometimes it just dont happen that way...like this morning only groups of mallards we could get to work were all hens and 1 drake every time. well we limited on hens for the first time. ive only been on 2 hunts that i could pick drakes only rest of the time your scrambling to get your limit. i can say that everytime i raise my gun to shoot im looking for drakes before i pull the trigger |
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| Author: | dog walker [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 1:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
I will try for drakes but if it's slow whatever comes in is going home. |
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| Author: | wal1809 [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 1:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Shooting Hens |
I try to shoot drakes. Sometimes the hen in the back gets it
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