re: Have the good ole days of duck hunting become a thing of the past.

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Yep I agree with a lot of it. The mojo up north really has hurt southern hunters. 20 years ago field hunting up there didn’t matter too much. The moon came along and now the young birds get absolutely hammered up north. I believe that a large part of the calendar birds the south used to rely on aren't there anymore because they’ve been whittled down in Canada and the Dakotas over the last 20 years. We used to flood one fiekd before Halloween and it would be loaded with the calendar birds on the first full moon - now not much. We are left with the early remnants of that flight (gadwalls, pintails , teal etc) and even those have declined. The bulk of the mallard left hug the freeze line and barring huge freeze/thaw events they stay north. I’ve seen this in arkansas, texas, and Oklahoma the last few years where the one weekend the freeze line pushed the birds were everywhere only to retreat back north on the next big south wind.

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