
Originally Posted by
highrollers4x4
I will say this. It is very hard to try to learn how to duck hunt and how to do it the right way. I have NOONE in my family that is into duck hunting at all. So I have had to learn everything from trial and error. Yet I have only been duck hunting for the last 4 years. This year has been the year that I have truely payed attention to what the older generation has said and starting looking at wind speed's and directions and what decoys to use in which area and how many i should use. Like others have said. this sport you constantly learn.
There isn't a giant mystery to killing ducks.
You don't need a decade of sitting, listening, and watching to do it.
1. In most circumstances you cannot succesfully kill birds close to another hunter. If someone is on your X. They beat you. Move along. Don't try to get as close to your hole as possible. Move. Give another hunter a minimum of 400 yards.
2. Scouting before you hunt drastically increases your chances at killing birds. Scout from a distance. If you don't spook them, 90% of the time they'll be there tomorrow morning. When you scout. Putt. Running spooks.
3. If you are where they want to be, decoys become far less important.
4. Calling. We don't have mallards. Learn to call the birds we do have. Most other big ducks can readily be called with a mallard call, but it is done in a much different manner.
5. Get it through your thick skull that you cannot successfully kill ducks much past 30 yards. Yes, we all have killed ducks at 50 yards. But if you play by this rule you may not shoot as much, but you will likely pick up what you do shoot.
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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