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re: Thoughts on duck hunting these days
Posted on 1/12/15 at 2:30 pm to jimbeam
Posted on 1/12/15 at 2:30 pm to jimbeam
I'll help y'all beat this dead horse a little bit more...
In my opinion the root of most of the modern day "problems" with duck hunting is the stretch of 6 duck limit and 60 day seasons we are having. I could be wrong, but this is the longest stretch of this liberal of seasons and bag limits we have had in most of our lifetimes. The long season and large limits has opened up a huge commercial aspect to duck hunting that wasn't sustainable in the past. Follow the money...
Lots of dollar bills able to be made in duck hunting now: lots of extremely expensive shotguns, duck calls, decoys, apparel, facepaint, hunting shows, etc.
If you pay attention to this website you will see quite often people starting threads about getting into duck hunting while not coming from a duck hunting background. Nothing wrong with that, but chances are these people just getting started are not going to know any better when it comes to hunting etiquette unless they have an experienced person schooling them up, and I tend to believe that lots of people that have duck hunted their whole lives still don't know what they are doing..
Long story short money has "ruined" the sport
In my opinion the root of most of the modern day "problems" with duck hunting is the stretch of 6 duck limit and 60 day seasons we are having. I could be wrong, but this is the longest stretch of this liberal of seasons and bag limits we have had in most of our lifetimes. The long season and large limits has opened up a huge commercial aspect to duck hunting that wasn't sustainable in the past. Follow the money...
Lots of dollar bills able to be made in duck hunting now: lots of extremely expensive shotguns, duck calls, decoys, apparel, facepaint, hunting shows, etc.
If you pay attention to this website you will see quite often people starting threads about getting into duck hunting while not coming from a duck hunting background. Nothing wrong with that, but chances are these people just getting started are not going to know any better when it comes to hunting etiquette unless they have an experienced person schooling them up, and I tend to believe that lots of people that have duck hunted their whole lives still don't know what they are doing..
Long story short money has "ruined" the sport
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Posted on 1/12/15 at 2:41 pm to Canard Gris
I blame Duck Dynasty. Lots of people watch that show and think... I want to to try that. Same thing about instagram and stuff like that. Hunting is just the "in" thing these days. My buddy had a lease they lost after several years of hunting it. The land owners decided they wanted to get into hunting so they just kicked them off. They shared it last year and we would laugh because they would shoot coot, scaup and ganzers like they were going out of style. We would just kill our 6 greys and keep on going. We passed by them one day and they were outfitted head to tow in Duck Commander gear a new gator tail with boat blind etc. On a plus side. I'm recently divorced and for some reason girls are really attracted to guys that duck hunt so there is that... LOL. I'm actually going to Arkansas on a guided hunt with a girl i'm dating and it was her idea.
This post was edited on 1/12/15 at 2:45 pm
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:52 pm to Canard Gris
I am all for a lower limit, I already have a tough time making hunts as it is so dont really want the number of day cut down. Unfortunately its now a money racket like you said, it would take a lot for them to lower limits and days.
Posted on 1/12/15 at 11:52 pm to Canard Gris
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I'll help y'all beat this dead horse a little bit more...
In my opinion the root of most of the modern day "problems" with duck hunting is the stretch of 6 duck limit and 60 day seasons we are having. I could be wrong, but this is the longest stretch of this liberal of seasons and bag limits we have had in most of our lifetimes. The long season and large limits has opened up a huge commercial aspect to duck hunting that wasn't sustainable in the past. Follow the money...
Lots of dollar bills able to be made in duck hunting now: lots of extremely expensive shotguns, duck calls, decoys, apparel, facepaint, hunting shows, etc.
If you pay attention to this website you will see quite often people starting threads about getting into duck hunting while not coming from a duck hunting background. Nothing wrong with that, but chances are these people just getting started are not going to know any better when it comes to hunting etiquette unless they have an experienced person schooling them up, and I tend to believe that lots of people that have duck hunted their whole lives still don't know what they are doing..
Long story short money has "ruined" the sport
^This is the reason I don't duck hunt. As a non-Louisiana native, duck hunting is stupid expensive. A lot of my coworkers do it and all advise me to not start because it is a huge money pit. I have to believe that the pressure to bring home birds has a lot to do with people taking a chance at passing birds.
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