Couple things: harvest percentages have a major factor that everyone seems to overlook.
Hunters ability to kill. I know for a fact that often times a group of 4 comes with nary a shell left and 7 teal between em.
That affects percentages drastically.
Also - Nobody wants to talk about the fact that Santee National Wildlife Refuge has been stacked to the gills with “coastal” ducks for the last decade.
Tens of thousands of puddle ducks.
Not many are killing em due to hunting styles up here, but they have adapted to complete nocturnal feeding.
These thousands of birds sit in the refuge all day.
Get up at 6:30-7pm and fill the hunt club impoundments up.
At 4:30am they get up and fly back to the refuge to sit all day.
This is why you’re able to see 15-20k birds just in Cantey Bay alone.
Most folks don’t see the other units.
This has proven that corn is a stronger attractant than widgeon grass and chara.
Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.
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