re: Who remembers the point system for ducks?

True no till farming around here kinda faded because most land is precision leveled and planted on a row (not rice). Not the case in the Midwest where all the ducks are hanging out. They plant flat and no till.

I'm talking about planted flat as in not on a row. And non-irrigated. The terrain is certainly not flat.

Yeah, that's what I'm familiar, although I wouldn't call it much of a no-till, and even that is rare. Almost every soybean field I've seen harvested has been tilled. This is St. Landry-Evangeline-Acadia area.

There is a name I have not heard in a while. I don't know who put it up but there is a memorial in the Gallion area for him.

He went after the high rollers on 15 and little Missouri - he would ease over to Molicy way back in the day as well.

The stories of him hiking in and waiting....for hours....to catch hunters is legendary.

Hr was moved from NLA to SLA and come cajuns cut the fuel line on a copter he was using....the Feds moved him west.

I think the big C got him - he is a legend.

I went inaugral point day on a (my first) guided hunt in Cameron Parish at the Hoffpauir camp near the Gibbstown Bridge. I think that the point system started in 1976. I left the regs and a Louisiana Conservationist Magazine with great photos back at the camp. Scaups(do gris) were 10 points but ringnecks(blackjacks) were 35. My first birds were a woody, green-winged teal, and a ring-neck which were technically a limit. I later proved to the guide that the ring-neck was not a scaup and left the magazine with him and the camp's other guides.

That night I ate some great gumbo and watched the Ali fight on a 12" TV in he kitchen with the cooks. The guides and guests were fascinated with the Lake Charles mayoral election and other political results and had the use of the "wide screen" television.

The next day I was assigned to a different guide that was a Louisiana goose calling champion but action was very slow. I think that the three of us got five or six teal.

This was my first and only guided hunt.

That year a Canvasback was 100 points and a Redhead was 90 which, if applied, was always the "last shot."

Next week the game agent busted an old man who took two of us at his marsh in Grand Chenier for not separating three individual kills although we were legal. He served on the Cameron Parish school board for a great number of years so I doubt he paid a fine.

I do not recall ever shooting a limit of ten pintails but it was often done. I was told it lead to a dramatic decreasing numbers as their numbers did diminish dramatically.

These are the kinds of stories I like reading. My generation wiii never know what that era looked like.

All of a sudden I wish I was duck camp, camp firing with a cup full of bourbon.

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Hoffpauir camp near the Gibbstown Bridge

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I hunted there a few times as a kid. Good times.

As far as the face paint goes, just saw a guy on tv say, "And now it's time to camy up with predator warpaint."