Lets hear how they have helped or hurt your hunting land and duck population. Pros and Cons....

Pros - for $25 I got a fleece jacket and 6 magazines, that's all the pros I can think of. Cons - they seem to do nothing but begg for more $, I think there biggest projects holds the birds up north longer.
I have started suporting Delta Waterfowl the last two years

Dam they sent you a jacket all I got was a sticker

I have gotten some free address labels from DU. Bout this time of year when they are wanting money for Xmas cards.. Guys check for your labels before tossing the rest in the trash... Other than that, not alot of DU projects going on around here. Well the DU Fest in Memphis is fun to go 2. Lots of hot chics in short shorts... Aw and they built a d@mN nice building in memphis for their top dogs to sit around in and talk about their upcoming hunting trips...

I support them both!

all du does is make the ducks stay up north u dont see tem making a diff down here in the south

Like I've said before DU does plenty of good things for da ducks and I still am a member, I just no longer sponsor dem wit $250 donations every year. But I've been hunting da atchafalya basin for 19 years now and I still have not seen any help from DU in preserving americas largest fresh water wetlands. All I see is da Corp. of Engineers silting da hole place up while DU silently sits buy and watches da basin slowly vanish.

the organization that gets my money danm'sure helps the ducks down here.
SCREW DU,what i dont like about delta is that some a their funds go to DU.
my money goes to the feed store!i aint got no quarrel with them northerners either, hell sometimes i run to the north a piece myself,when im goin to the grain elevator..
the bad thing though,down here,the man aint gotta see the feed,he jes sees some ducks and knows theres feed..
i figure when the good lord thinks its time for me to get in trouble again,i'll be in trouble again.
if you jes gotta give ya money away,give it to the NRA.

what's DU?

Thanks TBS. Anyone who fishes down there in Rockefeller knows that weir as the shrimping weir in Rollover Bayou. I agree I wont give sponsorships or anything like that. But i will become a member. I realized that the breeding grounds have to have a little more attention than down here. if the ducks dont have good habitat up there, then we will never have ducks down here.

Yeah i guess they dont do anything down in South LA.

http://www.ducks.org/conservation/initiative28.aspx

I don't really care where they spend the money as long as it's where the duck's need it most. Send it to Mexico for all I care as long as it helps the overall population. It's always nice to actually SEE your dollars at work in the form of new places to hunt or maintaining ones that need it, but what good does it do if you sit in that pretty marsh all day and never SEE any ducks? As for the banquets, I went one time. 3/4 of those people don't even hunt ducks, so it wasn't really my crowd. Maybe it's just my area. Who knows?

They are working very close to where we hunt. I used to believe the whole DU doesnt do anything for South LA until i heard about this. After reading up on it, i realized that they and Delta are doing alot down here in the south. That weir on Rockefeller is prolly only a 5 minute truck drive and 10 minute boat ride from our camp.

Looks like I need to do some reading and catch up with the recent times concering DU & Delta

Very educational thread

All I ever see of DU is them rich SOB's shootin' them shit out of em on TV. What am I to think?

"This would be a good hunt to use my EE LL double silver gold pigeon Beretta" What do you think Jim?

"Yes I beleive so, after this little Mexican man pushes me all the way across this bay in this flat bottom boat, I will dun my shoes again here in the Caribean and load my hand made Krieghoff classic double" Thanks Jose here is a Peso!

I would like to see an episode of them actually hunting, period!

Then you shouldnt watch any hunting show. All of those guys hunt with guides who work their butt off all year long to produce those kinds of numbers. Ive never been on a guided hunt before, but believe me if i had the money i sure would go on one. The Du show is no better than any of the other waterfowl shows. You will never see them having days where there are no birds, its not entertaining for TV. If i based everything i think of someone from the TV, i would be a liberal, whale saving, hippie, that would not want anyone to have guns. Or id believe that hunting was a sport only for the rich in which every hunt ended with countless limits, huge deer and elk, and a nice safari in africa. As hunters we do our homework, work our butts off during the off season just to be able to hunt. Just because these guys have a show and countless places to hunt that are paid for doesnt make them bad people. They have a love for the sport just like the rest of us. If they didnt they wouldnt travel so much and wake up at the asscrack of dawn to go sit in the freezing rain waiting on a damned ol duck to come into the dekes.

TBS, I just want to know four things. One... what state do you live in? You keep refering to everyone as you guys down south. Two... How many birds did you get in on last year?? Three...How much do you pay every year for your hunting lease? And Four... What DU sponsored Refuge does your lease butt up next too?

I understand dat da sediment comes from all over da eastern half of america but if they would let mother nature run its course dat sediment would run through da atchafalaya an settle in our coastal marshes where it is needed.

I do put alot of time and work into my hunting. I also hunt public land because I cant afford a 6-10,000$ lease. Duck hunting has become a sport for the rich. Or I should say "the rich have taken the sport out of duck hunting." Like I said on the thread that got niggerd up. DU has done alot for the breeding ground and conservation of ducks. Im not bashing what they do... But when you have an issue with things going on where you hunt with wetlands being drained and you reach out to DU for help and they talk to you like your a fucking hick that shouldnt even be hunting ducks, it kinda chaps your ass.. Let it happen to you then get back on here and tell me how much you Love DU... I have my reasons and not enough time to tell all of you about it. Hey buddy if you are a proud member of DU and want to have their logo on all your hunting gear thats fine with me. But they lost my respect when the person on the other end of that phone treated me as if I didnt have enough money in my banking accout to be duck hunting..

sounds like the start of a new non profit waterfowl organaztion could be in the makings here "MMT Southern Waterfowlers Association" earl33 will be acting President of "MSWA" until we can have a formal election

DU screws us every year, and you cant even hunt on rockafella

I would not worry about it, if I only hunted five times a season!!!

I am not sure of other states but here in TX, DU partners up with Texas Parks and Wildlife and assists in helping with public hunting land management. There are several WMA's around the state where DU has put some resouces on the ground for the SOUTHERN hunter. I like Delta's stance on predator management, but i know of not a single place in TX where Delta has put money on the ground for public hunters.

du has spent more money in louisiana than any other state on the mississippi flyway (41.7 million dollars)

now..everyone has their own opinion, yankees believe that the breeding grounds are more important, southerners believe its the wintering grounds, y doesnt anyone realize that they are both, very important? bunch of fucking bitches crying. everyone needs to understand...ducks unlimited is an orginzation for the ducks..not the hunter. we as a hunter support them because as long as they are protecting ducks, that guarentees the species that we all love to hunt.

du just recently purchased over 300 acres of top dollar farmland in canada for 54 dollars an acre. ( thats right over 16,000 dollars)

thats a dump truck full of wetlands damn near in the u.s

and for u coonasses, du and delta do more for la wetlands than our own government

I don't really know anyone that thinks the wintering grounds need all the money. Ducks got plenty of places to go when they get here. However the more ducks made the more that will make it to LA. Hell its one big lake from AR down to Alex right now.

Here we go again,love them or hate them they are here to stay.Keep your money if you want to,someone else will send in their money.I'm forced to send 250 a year so that will make up for some of you slackers


And trying to save wetlands on the coast is like trying carry water in you hands its a lot of work for very little rewards.They just came to the conclusion that they cannot be saved so they are going to look at where the money can be spent in better ways in the future.We look at is as habitat the feds look at it as flood protection.

I disagree. Most of the shows are the brass of DU being pampered and killing ducks.

IF thats the case then point taken. But i will not believe everything i see on TV. Only what i know in real life. Ive seen the good that DU and Delta has done down here and I will continue my support to each of them.

I will agree with you there. Best thing they could do is cancel there DU hunting tv show. It would do wonders for there image in my opinion. I think the majority of negative commends about DU come from watching their show. Some of their events become lavish, but I do know that is not the falt of DU the organization.