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re: What do you attribute the migration change to?
Posted on 10/14/16 at 9:28 am to TigerDog83
Posted on 10/14/16 at 9:28 am to TigerDog83
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TigerDog83
This guy gets it.
Also, pressure absolutely affects duck migration. If you went on a trip every place to the same year, and some guy shoots at you every time you go, you're eventually going to go somewhere else
. Especially guys in leases hunting both mornings and afternoons. If you stop giving the ducks a place to rest, they're going to stop coming to your general area. If everyone in your general area does the same, they're going to go somewhere else altogether. It's a pretty simple concept and I've seen it happen over and over again. Especially in the last 6-7 years.
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Posted on 10/14/16 at 9:39 am to bluemoons
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Also, pressure absolutely affects duck migration. If you went on a trip every place to the same year, and some guy shoots at you every time you go, you're eventually going to go somewhere else . Especially guys in leases hunting both mornings and afternoons. If you stop giving the ducks a place to rest, they're going to stop coming to your general area. If everyone in your general area does the same, they're going to go somewhere else altogether. It's a pretty simple concept and I've seen it happen over and over again. Especially in the last 6-7 years.
My only issue with this is if it were the case, then the refuges and public lands wouldn't hold any birds anymore. Places like Point-aux-Chenes, Atchafalaya Delta, Biloxi Marsh, Sabine, and Lacassine get shot up year in and year out. If they were completely absent from the WMAs and not the refuges, I would buy into this argument. But they aren't, and the coastal WMAs can be hunted all day unlike the inland WMAs and Refuges that are closed to hunting by 2 pm.
Posted on 10/14/16 at 11:21 am to bluemoons
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Also, pressure absolutely affects duck migration
i can only speak to the wax lake/atchafalaya bay area. ive hunted it since i was a kid, well over 40 years.
before it blew up as a popular area, the ducks were highly predictable:
1) fly offshore in the morning
2) fly inshore in the evening
we could catch them coming, or going, or both.
now...they spend the day (hunting hours) massed up in gigantic mobs floating out in the bay, not flying. my assumption is they are flying at at night but who knows. bottom line is, where i hunt, pressure has changed their behavior
Posted on 10/14/16 at 12:21 pm to bluemoons
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Also, pressure absolutely affects duck migration. If you went on a trip every place to the same year, and some guy shoots at you every time you go, you're eventually going to go somewhere else
I don't really agree with this. You're telling me all these birds (a lot o jeveniles) say, aww shite man lets not fly to Venice because last year we got shot at? No way dude. Sure they may avoid areas once they are here and starting to rest, but I highly doubt what you're talking about changes their migration patterns.
Posted on 10/14/16 at 5:16 pm to bluemoons
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Especially guys in leases hunting both mornings and afternoons. If you stop giving the ducks a place to rest, they're going to stop coming to your general area. If everyone in your general area does the same, they're going to go somewhere else altogether. It's a pretty simple concept and I've seen it happen over and over again. Especially in the last 6-7 years.
I agree with some of this but I often make afternoon hunts due to my schedule, while my buddy might hunt in the morning. I never sky bust and rarely shoot till legal shooting time in the pm. Many days I don't fire a shot. It can be done if you are not greedy and shoot at everything that comes close. I am usually walking out 5 minutes before shooting time and I have ducks coming in behind me to roost.
I love to hunt and try to go every chance I get. I just don't abuse my area. And no wheelers for me either.
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