What are you thoughts on Duck Dynasty's effect on duck hunting?

Anytime there can be more young people in the woods and off the streets is a plus in my book. I quit duck hunting 10 or so years ago after not missing a day for five years straight. I haven't experienced the new wave of duckmen, but think that society as a whole is better off for the influx.

Around here, I think it has the most to do with age.

Every year, a new flock of topwaters turn 16, get that silveraydo with lightbar and starts hitting the ponds.

I always laugh at the face painters....

Duck hunted for 35 years, only paint I ever used was painting my pirogue Valspar dull dead grass green....

The groups of people I see hunting because of this show are college aged or just out. In my home town there are now 2 or 3 duck hunting "clubs" that all think they reinvented the wheel. When I was growing up there were just a handful of people in my middle school and highschool that were actual duck hunters. We know who each other are. None are in any "clubs". And we laugh real hard directly at them.

ETA: and at their face paint. And calling techniques.

meh.....watching DD has ZERO effect on duck hunting!

(Ignoring all the trolling posts)

Idk how much of an influx in duck hunters you can directly attribute to the show. But I will says since it became popular I have had a lot more of my non-hunting friends ask me to take them duck hunting. The amount of shitty callers on public land has also increased exponentially.

As far as DC goes, I've been watching their hunting videos and buying there stuff for years. They've always painted their faces; that's just their technique. Does it make a difference? Maybe, but I've never done it and I don't think it does. As far as their calls go, they used to make a pretty decent call for the money, especially some of their non-mallard calls. But now they're mass producing everything and doing market gimmick calls. Some of them it seems like they just take the same shitty call and paint it camo or pink to sell it. Can't say I blame them. If I had the opportunity to make that kind of money off of idiots I'd jump at it.

I've gone through phases of painting/not painting my face since the 1980s, before hunting on television was a common thing. I think I initially started doing it because of Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone in either Commando or Rambo, I can't remember. Maybe it was a different action movie I saw as a kid. My girls want to do it now because they think it's fun, so I go along with it sometimes. The only problem I have with the DD show and its popularity is every time I show up somewhere with residual paint or a 5-day-old beard someone says "you trying to be Phil Robertson now I see."

I'm happy for the DD guys to have made a living doing something they love, and any jackass on this board that says he'd rather be sitting in an office chair or running a forklift instead of hunting/promoting hunting for a living is a fricking liar. The only negative impact I can see these guys have made on hunting is the fact that some kids are deciding to become hunters and think they can just buy the kit and kill ducks/deer/whatever. This complaint isn't aimed directly at the DD folks, rather the entire hunting industry that has commercialized hunting to the point where I can't find camo that doesn't have neon green striping/logos, or a turkey call that isn't called the "big sexy hardlegging raspy 2-timing hot angel fire double reed" or something stupid like that.

Duck Dynasty hasn't had a good duck hunting episode in three years. I thought they gave it up for golf.....