What do you consider the ultimate prize in the world of duck hunting?

[buckpro]

This right here.

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[Coastal Woodie]

Bohica's told me in the past he's pretty sure the Delta has a small resident population.

A buddy that manages a very nice place in the ACE told me back in the spring he saw a hen bluewing with a brood.

I'm surprised more don't stick around. High marsh bulrush is prime nesting habitat.

I saw a hen blue wing with a brood on the upper Waccamaw river in April. A couple miles down from the state line.

[nitro5x6's]

Great photo , all of them .

Every spring, on our trek into the PNW, we pass some wetlands along a road in the middle of rural NW America that is loaded up with some spectacular Pintails... I mean sprigs as long as God provides... fully colored in their nuptial Tuxedoes... gorgeous birds.

The damn renegade in me really wants to do a drive by, but the Lord calms me and says " Not today Satan"

Black ducks are far and away my favorite puddle duck , but Pintails are #2. Kilt a many of them when I was a boy hunting in California. They were 10 point ducks and the goal was always 10 a day if possible.

[huntinghagen#12]

I like killing ducks in just about any way possible. Mallards in the trees on public land gets my heart going more than anything else, and there's not a close second for me.

[Catdaddy]

Nothing like a drake black duck , and 8 wild mallards to go with it in a SC beaver pond.

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[Sportin' Woodies]

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[Sportin' Woodies]

Upstate mallards are hard to beat.

[Tater]

[Catdaddy]

I love some SC Gadwalls.

Good job Tater.

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[Tater]

Thank you, sir.

[Tater]

That’s Anderson County.

[GBelly]

I agree with sportin.
The upstate mallards are hard to beat


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[Tater]

Across the road from the previous pic

[WhitewaterDuck]

I need to revise....That pintail was the ultimate prize of MY duck hunting career. The Blacks I shot were cool, but none were IDd then worked in and shot as known Blacks, so they come in under the Bull Sprig. That said, this is about the ultimate prize, and if we are being honest, I think we'd all agree that DHalls barely legible miner banded Black that had to be ~20 years old would be top on the list unless they put miner bands on Harlequins.

[Sportin' Woodies]

Y'all keep the pix coming

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[BOGSTER]

[QUOTE=JimmyD714;3105238]I'd say the ultimate prize in duck hunting is not living in South Carolina LOL. QUOTE]

To a good many of us, still getting it done in SC is the prize.

It’s the ultimate test of one’s ability to make it happen where things are extremely tough.

2 limits of puddle ducks out west in a place where there’s a steady supply of birds is a doable feat for even the most novice of hunters. The constant opportunity and laws of statistics are in your favor.
10-20 chances at flocks of 10-15 birds a morning allows for that.

Capitalizing on 2-5 chances at flocks of 2-4 extremely educated birds, conditioned to flight patterns back and forth to private lands is the ultimate test of our ability.

I love traveling to hunt, but my prize is a limit of mixed puddle ducks in the marshes and swamps of the motherland.

A decoyed black duck in wild out here, it’s downright a religious experience. I cherish every time.

[Tater]

[Tater]