re: duck season interesting read from up north...

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ell in South Dakota, we have called up landowners on the phone, when we got their name from a plot book. They always think we are calling for pheasants and they say they have already promised the pheasants to others to hunt. Then we say, no we want to hunt the ducks and it is like we are asking to catch hardhead catfish. They are like sure, if you want to hunt ducks, have at it...

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That is the way the farmers used to look at us in Iowa in the late 80s when we asked them to hunt deer. They all had the same response, 'yeah, but if you go on my land you have to kill every one that you see...and dont mess with my cattle gates or drive the pasture'

Not one of them understood even a little bit why we wanted to hunt deer. that all changed by the early 2000's. I dont go any more, but my friends have access to like two woodlots now a days....and even those have deer that they cant shoot.