re: Thoughts on duck hunting these days

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The point of hunting to me is to fool birds into thinking my decoys are real birds. Under 30 yards they are dead

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Same. Like your earlier post, the two primary reasons I hunt ducks are to work/fool birds and watch my dog work. I love shooting ducks, but honestly, I'd just as soon call them for someone else and work my dog after they shot. I'm not going to go all cliche anti-sky busting, but it's just not me. I hunt for different reasons and I get off to ducks landing in my spread. If someone else wants to do it, that's cool, but if you're flaring ducks that I'm working, then we're gonna have problems. I got in that situation once this season and it was handled after the hunt was over. Bottom line: it's more than just killing limits.

I don't know that social media is the problem. I post a lot of my pictures on social media. I like to have them all in one place and I like to share them with my friends who are into the same stuff I'm into. I like to see pictures that other people post too. I also really like taking photos and wish I had better equipment with which I could get into outdoor photography. Maybe one day.

I do think that commercialization/money has a lot to do with it as well.