"Blessed is the man... who makes one word grow where two grew before" - Havilah Babcock
You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it’s all a waste and a sin to take it if you can’t use it.” - Robert Ruark
"Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing " -Benjamin Franklin
Yea keep thinking that. I went there a long time ago when it was still pretty new. It was the worst camp experience I have ever been to. The local Wildlife Action Camp in Mullins beats Camp Woodie to a bloody pulp. Camp Woodie was a rich kid camp when I went and I am sure it hasnt changed. Releasing and killing ducks is not hunting. I realized that after a week there. Duck hunting was what my dad introduced me to. Putting on layers riding up the Lumber River freezing your ass off at 5am. Setting up as the sky begins to brighten just hoping you picked the right spot. Cooling temperatures and changing leaves get me excited about duck hunting, not that i went to a tamie shooting camp some odd years ago.
This is "it". You dont get "it" from camp woodie.
Good read sprig and aucs..everybody doesn't and may not ever understand what duck hunting really is. It is just like any other part of life, if everything has been handed to you you will not appreciate it. To most every scwa guy all it's for is a picture.
I will say that the property is a pretty good spot to have a hunt test. Or used to be anyway.
Sprig-that post does and always will define duck hunting in SC. Only thing I could add would be wearing a pair of a borrowed pair of "insulated" socks with the big red band on top.
Sprig, thanks for that post. It pretty well sums up the principles of most of the folks on this site. Wouldn't mind sharing a blind with more folks like yourself, but when you're teaching yourself to duck hunt later in life (late 20's and early 30's) it's hard to get in with folks who do things right. Seems everyone I run into I can't stand to ever go hunt with again after just one morning.
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