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How early do you get to the blind?
Posted on 8/17/10 at 12:01 pm
Posted on 8/17/10 at 12:01 pm
I have to get there about 2 hrs before shooting hours due to it being public land and i have to string out all my decoys...
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Posted on 8/17/10 at 12:03 pm to geauxcats10
About 30 minutes til shooting time..
Posted on 8/17/10 at 12:05 pm to sleviner
I want to be sitting in the blind with coffee in hand 30min before shooting time. All the decoys out and waiting
Posted on 8/17/10 at 12:15 pm to geauxcats10
I got a place I hunt thats public and they don't open the gates until 2 hours before day light. So it's actually 1 1/2 hrs before shooting time. I drive my truck 5 miles, then unload my 4 wheeler and load it, drive 5.5 miles back, carry all my gear through water about 1/2 a mile and by the time I get everything set up I usually have about 3-5 minutes before I can shoot.
Posted on 8/17/10 at 12:33 pm to Richardheadtigah
Opening day of season and 2nd split, 15 minutes before shooting hour. Front passages during the night or early morning, same. Other than that about 8:00 a.m. 
Posted on 8/17/10 at 12:59 pm to VernonPLSUfan
Normally before shooting time. However when the ducks get thick oftentimes well leave the ramp about daylight and figure out where we want to go and then make a lazymans hunt.
Also if tides are low sometimes we'll sleep in and do a pm hunt.
Also if tides are low sometimes we'll sleep in and do a pm hunt.
Posted on 8/17/10 at 1:26 pm to geauxcats10
Wake up 30 min. before shooting hours, get dressed while drinking coffee, walk 100 yards to boat shed, drive boat 2 min. and get in blind.
That's how it's supposed to be done!
That's how it's supposed to be done!
Posted on 8/17/10 at 1:34 pm to geauxcats10
I want to be in a position where I'm at a panic to get shells in the gun as the first group comes into the dekes.
Posted on 8/17/10 at 1:34 pm to bodean45
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That's how it's supposed to be done!
IDK im weird i guess I feel like i didn't do any work. I enjoy the actual work to get out there..
Posted on 8/17/10 at 1:44 pm to mylsuhat
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I want to be sitting in the blind with coffee in hand 30min before shooting time. All the decoys out and waiting
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Posted on 8/17/10 at 1:56 pm to geauxcats10
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IDK im weird i guess I feel like i didn't do any work. I enjoy the actual work to get out there..
Forgot to mention our blind is leased and the dekes stay out during the season. The only real work each morning is putting up the Flapper.
Oh, and we're also quite lazy and like to drink lots at the camp each night. So we have gotten it down to as easy as possible in order to make more hunts and not sleep in all the time.
Posted on 8/17/10 at 7:04 pm to bodean45
quote:You need to hunt with the Millers. They open a trap door in the floor and get in the boat that is UNDER the camp.
That's how it's supposed to be done!
Posted on 8/17/10 at 7:52 pm to CajunSensation
In the water @ 3 a.m.
1 hr. boat ride
Find spot
Throw out 10 dz. dekes
Just get the boat blind up in time to shoot.....
and its all worth it!
1 hr. boat ride
Find spot
Throw out 10 dz. dekes
Just get the boat blind up in time to shoot.....
and its all worth it!
Posted on 8/17/10 at 7:58 pm to geauxcats10
Around the house in the rice fields I'm usually getting in the blind right before shooting hours. At the camp it just depends on how hammered everybody got the night before.
Posted on 8/17/10 at 8:26 pm to AlxTgr
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I want to be in a position where I'm at a panic to get shells in the gun as the first group comes into the dekes.
+1 No matter what my intentions this seems to be the norm.
This post was edited on 8/17/10 at 8:27 pm
Posted on 8/17/10 at 8:31 pm to geauxcats10
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due to it being public land
I know a group of guys that hunt Bayou Meto (public) in Stuttgart. Boats can't leave the boat ramp until 5:00 am. So, instead of waiting with everyone else to race for their favorite hole, they draw straws and the loser gets leave at 3:00 am to walk in with his gun, shell bag, Q-Beam and a lawn chair.
This post was edited on 8/17/10 at 8:33 pm
Posted on 8/17/10 at 10:02 pm to Stuttgart Tiger
For a gentlemens hunt, usually about 9-9:30ish. just about the time the big ducks(mallard, pintails) start to move in ...
Posted on 8/17/10 at 10:25 pm to CajunSensation
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You need to hunt with the Millers. They open a trap door in the floor and get in the boat that is UNDER the camp.
When I lived in Harbor Town, which is an "island" community on Mud Island in downtown Memphis, I would wake up, grab the dog and gun, and go down to the harbor about 50 yards from my apartment.
30 minute zip (albeit scary) across the MS River to Arkansas and up the Brandy Wine shoot.
Man I miss hunting on the river.
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