“Duck hunting gives a man a chance to see the loneliest places …blinds washed by a rolling surf, blue and gold autumn marshes, …a rice field in the rain, flooded pin-oak forests or any remote river delta. In duck hunting the scene is as important as the shooting.” ~ Erwin Bauer, The Duck Hunter’s Bible, 1965
From the book Early History of the Santee Club by Henry H. Carter
As far as I know there we no corn ponds back then and it seems from reading the same book that the property was neglected, un-managed. The only inhabitants of Murphy Island were cows that had gone wild. Somehow, those old mallards liked wild places.In December, 1900...The nearest ducks arose with a great roar and the scare was communicated to all the ducks in the Black Point Marsh. It is no exaggeration to state that there was several hundred thousand. None of us, although we had shot in North Dakota, North Carolina, Texas, etc. had ever seen such a sight...Nevertheless, each blind produced about fifty and between 150 and 200 were killed - all mallards.
Last edited by Rubberhead*; 02-14-2022 at 05:33 PM.
Ephesians 2 : 8-9
Charles Barkley: Nobody doesn't like meat.
ducks were here before agriculture.
and we've been planting corn for a while now.
some of it floods naturally.
and is my corn pond part of the problem if they never get to it? or are we just worried about any flooded corn north of us?
Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.
Do I seem loud, or just opinionated?
The timeless argument that lack of migration revolves around weather doesn’t cut it anymore now that we have the internet and real time access between hunters across the nation.
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.
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.
A recent Podcast l was listening to interviewed an old waterman from Hyde County, NC. In the mid 80’s there were 4-5 impoundments around Mattamuskeet. Now there are estimated 2000-2500. I can’t tell me that hasn’t affected the population distribution.
Bottom line the duck hunter is getting more and more lazy. And they don't want yo have to work for them anymore.
"I'm just a victim of a circumstance"
Are we really saying that man made impoundments pulled all the ducks from a man made impoundment?
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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.
I haven’t heard that, but don’t have much experience in rice fields.
We did 38 acres this year at a buddy’s place this year and flooded it at 6 inches.
I can’t imagine how much weed control would be required if dry grown.
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.
Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.
I meant just out west for commercial purposes.
https://talkbusiness.net/2019/03/row...y-in-arkansas/
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.
Kevin - for 200 years all duck hunting in the US had been relatively similar.
Men going out to natural waterways with a few decoys, duck calls, and maybe a dog.
For 170 years we really had enough ducks for folks to consistently have successful hunts.
Outboard motors aside. What changed?
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.
The technology for more accurate waterfowl counts exists. Government just needs to use some money correctly to deploy it and really understand what NA waterfowl populations truly are.
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