Are worthless groups like Ducks Un-Limited and Delta Waterfowl ruining our sport? Report after report from state after state proclaim that, again, duck season has sucked donkey nuts. Minnesota hunters never saw the ducks. Ohio hunters never saw the ducks. Arkansas hunters never saw the ducks. Louisiana hunters never saw the ducks.
The Atlantic flyway has been dead for more than a decade. It looks like the Mississippi Flyway is gasping it's last breath. Even hunters in Canada report tough hunting and duck numbers down.
Why are we hunters not screaming at Ducks Un-Limited and Delta for an explanation? They send you suckers all a nice magazine every now and then chock full of ads and Pacific Flyway mallards and everyone is a happy camper. The articles are all about selling yuppie shit to yuppie shits.
The DU TV show features gay ex-actors with gay over and under shotguns shooting gay teal over gay hand carved decoys being guided by some shmuck because they can't call a duck.
What about us? Real duck hunters who want just a few mallards to call and shoot over our plastic Flambeau decoys.
After 70 years of taking our money to the tune of a billion dollars, Ducks Un-Limited owes us an explanation as to why they have failed and duck hunting in 2 of the 4 Flyways has gone to maggot shit.
No. Let me rethink that. Obviously they do not know WHY. But they damned sure owe us the courtesy of ADMITTING that it has gone to shit. Instead we just see glossier pictures in the magazine and talk of the old days.
We as sportsmen must demand that our organizations step up to the plate and at least admit that duck hunting is teetering on the edge of oblivion. We should deny them funding until they do so. When the mallard is lost as a huntable species in this country there will be hell to pay.
Another billion dollars would only be wasted by the current Ducks Un-Limited mission. They have failed. It is time to either fund a new organization dedicated to refilling our skies with birds or gutting the current DU structure and making that the prime directive.
So, as you get drunk at your next local DU event, look around you. Look at all the rubberheads. Look at the geeks running the chapter. Look at all the yuppies there just for the liquor and the sticker. Look at the big tittied women fleecing you. And ask yourself- is any of this crap going to put more mallards in the air next fall?
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