re: Fascinating Duck Study on Pressure

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This is your opinion. Some have other opinions. Howard Miller WMA is open only 2 days a week and is draw only. They have birds and people are killing limits. They have been doing this since the 1st split. There is minimum pressure though.

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Looked at Howard Miller WMA and it looks like the state of Mississippi has a recipe that could followed in other areas to provide quality duck hunts to at least some public land hunting. Those types of situations are as vital as private and public refuges for feeding, roosting and loafing areas. I am curious though, what is the situation as far as public land not on WMAs, particularly on the river and bayous etc. I suspect it being in the south and therefore heaven it is not overly regulated...and, if a person is bent on doing so could find some areas to hunt where they could consider conditions etc. That would be the best of both worlds....high qaulity areas like the WMA and places where a person could go on a Thursday morning after a good front passes through on Wednesday night AND options in those areas to consider wind etc. That is truly rare in my experience....there are a lot of places like the WMA across the country and they are vitally important BUT they do not address the fact that usually there is an awful lot of suitable habitat on land owned by the public in the same general area which is closed or similarly regulated as the WMA.