How to properly scout large areas

[2thDoc]

OK. how is it done? i hear all the rubberhead talk surrounding hunting sparkleberry and the issues with pressure. I also hear people talking about setting up out of the way and watching what the ducks are doing in the mornings and evenings....but if there's one thing I have learned about ducks, its that they want to be where they want to be. 50 yards off is not acceptable and you might as well be at home.

so...if ducks are actually using a public area....and you sure as hell dont want to disturb them every day, how do you watch from afar and know EXACTLY where they want to be without going in there?

[Turd Ferguson]

I consult with Sister Maria-
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Everytime I call her she starts by saying " I knew it was you"
How in the crap does she know these things??????????? I even disguised my voice once and after using 3 different names when I finally told her who I really was she responded with "I knew were gonna say that name next and then asked if I was through playing mind games and that I already owed her $30 for her time playing telephone games-- I give up she is for real- shes got the POWER--

[bitesize]

Thats why you just hunt private ponds, if they are not in the first one chances are they are in the next. If all else fails go to the woodduck pond

[falcon40]

know the area.after the season is a good time.when your hunting the salt marsh its pretty safe to assume that the ducks you see are going to rest or to roost.roost areas for birds that are using private impoundments can be good on the mornings the said areas are being hunted.those areas are not right next to the impoundments usually.unless you are hunting over food,50 yards usualy doesnt matter.also if your in an area and your not exactly sure within 100 yards,dont put your whole spread out.if the first ducks you see land 80 yds. out MOVE.

[BOGSTER]

depends on terrain.
The swamp is tougher. usually if i see ducks working an area i will idle within about a hundred yards and walk the rest of the way.....if the water is shallow enough.
Usually when you find big ducks up there they are with wood ducks.
hen woodies will always give their location away.

Open water is easier.
watch with binocs.

Mudmotors owned by morons are the biggest threat to the birds.
Riding wide open through the trees with a lawn mower engine is guarenteed to send the birds to private land.

[JABIII]

I advocate getting as close as you can with as many mudmotors as you can get. The ducks are used to hearing combines on the prairies and several mudmotors at a time remind them of combines working. Sure, a few will get up but they will invariably come back later. You have to be CLOSE. Right where they want to be...

[dukhuntr]

2th it is easy just get up about an hour before sunrise during duck season and ride till you see the most spotlight activity and hunt as close as the others will let you. No need to do any work preseason or postseason!

[LabLuvR]

Binocs from afar using stealth mode. Kill motor and listen.

[wskinner]

my favorite method is ridin up to a spot and shootin a round off. Wherever you see the ducks get up is where you should hunt.

nah, im just kiddin(that one should be on the "you might be a rubbahead list")...im with labluvr, binos are my favorite tool. I try to always take them with me in the field.

[dcmbsc]

Aircraft.

[Tater]

Cyber.

[DeltaDucks]

Luck !!

[Mars Bluff]

Man, I thought they went where the corn is... ; )

[froggyo]

Sounds like JAB is wanting everyone to run the ducks out of the swamp over to him.

[ccleroy]

All you do is sit on said morning and watch where the ducks are going and how many shots you hear.........then go bustin through the swamp and find said hunters....make small chat about their sucsess.........the gps and boogie out of there........hence beat them to the same hole the next sat....................seriously it seems most of the kids do it..........

[BOGSTER]

Sounds like JAB is wanting everyone to run the ducks out of the swamp over to him.

ya think?

[duckiller]

I sit from a far watch the birds through Bionoculars and then if I dont know where exactly there are going ill try and stalk just close enough to pin point them and back out.