Lottery Hunt Results

[Calibogue]

Shots fired and birds harvested per hunter are definitely not indicator numbers...

[JBtflo]

Let’s discuss the shots fired to birds harvested for a second, nearly 5:1! That’s pretty piss poor shooting!

Have you not been on one of those hunts? I suspect more run out of shells before out of birds.

[Islandguy85]

Messed up my shots fired percentage hail
Marying at some snows. Still had 5 rounds in my pocket when picked up. Hoped for more big birds but it wasn’t in the cards for us. Covered in teal and could’ve killed over 100.

Edited to add. The mud kicked my f’n ass.

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[willyworm]

That'd be a fun one. Good work! Way to ring in the new year.

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[Duck Nitz]

dusky duck!

[Tugted312]

Messed up my shots fired percentage hail
Marying at some snows. Still had 5 rounds in my pocket when picked up. Hoped for more big birds but it wasn’t in the cards for us. Covered in teal and could’ve killed over 100.

Edited to add. The mud kicked my f’n ass.

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Where’d you hunt? I know the mud at the cape is no damn joke

[Islandguy85]

Where’d you hunt? I know the mud at the cape is no damn joke

Murphy


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[willyworm]

The mud at every part of Santee Coastal isn't much fun.

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[Islandguy85]

The mud at every part of Santee Coastal isn't much fun.

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I grew up in the area and have been educated by pluff mud. This was all slop but you couldnt see it because it was a few inches under water. There was no rhyme or reason as to what spot would be bad or not. I could walk 10-15 steps in shin deep and then step #16 waist deep in bottomless mud.
I stashed the little boat they provide to get away from it and it was next to impossible to retrieve birds without the boat. I ended up just letting the dead birds drift across the open flat we were on and paddling for them after we were done.

The second time I sunk past my waist in mud I legitimately wondered how the F I was going to get out of there. Floundered around like an idiot, got wet, got out.
Lesson learned. I would still stash the boat as best as possible but don’t bother walking for any other reason.


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[santee11]

Two things that suck, one is when you sink down to your nuts in pluff mud and the water is an inch from coming in your waders. The second is when the wind stops blowing and no-see-ums form a cloud around your head. Seems like they always happen at the same time.

[Highstrung]

Yeah, I think I typed it in one of these threads recently. The hole I hunted at in Murphy was spirit breaking. After I killed my brown duck and a couple teal, we only saw spoonbills. I refused to shoot one, my partner with me did. I wasn't going to eat one, but I damn sure wasn't walking through that shit to pick one up. If you described our boat to police sketch artist it would have visibly had more in common with a midget coffin.

[Highstrung]

And I've walked all sorts of pluff mud across our coast.. from childhood to laying out the birms of most of the spoil cells from Charleston to Savannah.

[Tater]

[Highstrung]

For what it's worth, I'll be in one of those marshes this week.. the weather looks like weather. I have deet in my bag already packed.

[scatter shot]

Which outfit you gonna wear?

[joshua2]

Will be nut deep @ Cedar island Wednesday morning. Good luck to anyone hunting this week.

[Highstrung]

Which outfit you gonna wear?

the dashing lighter ensemble

[BOGSTER]

I live in the pluff mud in the winter.

Get yourselves some mudder boots and a walking stick with flat end.


You’re welcome.

[duckshootringer55]

Will be nut deep @ Cedar island Wednesday morning. Good luck to anyone hunting this week.

Just hunted cedar island last week and it didn’t have many birds, the few I saw were mostly gadwall and mottled/blacks. hopefully you’ll do better than I did. I wouldn’t be too picky if I were you, take what you can get. Murphy and the cape have the ducks right now, cedar dike was damaged with the storm couple months ago

[Gander]

I'm hunting Cedar next Wednesday. Is there an address to that place? All I saw on the DNR website was some vague directions. I'd rather not be trying to figure shit out in the dead of night. Why is DNR still using antiquated directions when everyone has GPS built into their phones?