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re: Downshift's swamp navigation and sneaking aorund thread (TL;DR)
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:31 pm to Boats n Hose
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:31 pm to Boats n Hose
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What are all the extra lines and stuff on the silva compass for?
Getting bearings and distances on maps. Useful if you have a really good map. The main thing is they always point north.
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Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:33 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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I had some cool screenshots on my old phone of where I was at in the woods. Some of them make you go
I still have a gps pinpoint on my iPhone of a badass piece of driftwood. I found it on the way in on one of my slipe missions. Never went back for it though.
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:34 pm to Slickback
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badass piece of driftwood
So many pieces
So far to carry them
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:34 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
I'll probably print out a shitty map and laminate it and keep it in my bag for the hell of it. That WMA is so damn big you couldn't fit it all on a small map
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:36 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
It would've been perfect for the massive sac-au-lait I caught this year. 
I found a pretty legit topo map of Maurepas WMA. Pretty depressing.
I found a pretty legit topo map of Maurepas WMA. Pretty depressing.
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:37 pm to Slickback
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This post was edited on 8/14/12 at 11:04 pm
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:38 pm to Boats n Hose
Yea you gotta get a zoomed in map of where you're gonna be roughly.
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:38 pm to wickowick
I guess I never noticed that it encompassed all of the land around the Diversion. Do you hunt around your house any?
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:39 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Nice thread. Thanks
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:39 pm to Slickback
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I found a pretty legit topo map of Maurepas WMA. Pretty depressing.
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:40 pm to Slickback
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I guess I never noticed that it encompassed all of the land around the Diversion. Do you hunt around your house any?
Na, I gave up deer hunting years ago, but if that fresh water diversion from the Mississippi River happens perhaps some ducks will return and I will be able to leave the house via boat to hunt...
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:41 pm to Slickback
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I found a pretty legit topo map of Maurepas WMA. Pretty depressing.
Look like a big meteor crater?
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:42 pm to wickowick
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Na, I gave up deer hunting years ago, but if that fresh water diversion from the Mississippi River happens perhaps some ducks will return and I will be able to leave the house via boat to hunt...
They used to kill piles of mallards in that swamp. Not sure what happened, something about the hydrilla and the drainage now. Downshift can probably splain it.
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:43 pm to Slickback
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Downshift can probably splain it.
Easily put, salvania
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:43 pm to wickowick
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Na, I gave up deer hunting years ago, but if that fresh water diversion from the Mississippi River happens perhaps some ducks will return and I will be able to leave the house via boat to hunt...
My dad was reading some more recent stuff on it today and telling me about it. Looks like it's a little closer to happening. Hope it happens.
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:45 pm to Slickback
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They used to kill piles of mallards in that swamp. Not sure what happened, something about the hydrilla and the drainage now. Downshift can probably splain it.
Salvinia is a non native aquatic plant that the ducks can not eat. It has moved in and killed all the food. The original Duck Commander video was filmed down here. Now there is nothing. I can stand on my balcony at dusk and count a handful of wood ducks, and a big duck every blue moon...
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:45 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Between that and the diversion canal holding back drainage of blind river the duck hunting really went downhill. That's how my dad splained it. He used to hunt on what is now the WMA
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:46 pm to Boats n Hose
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He used to hunt on what is now the WMA
That used to be mallard heaven.
ETA: God forbid the mallards ever come back. We'll have to booby trap our boat launch with how fanatical duck hunters are these days.
This post was edited on 8/14/12 at 9:47 pm
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:46 pm to Boats n Hose
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Between that and the diversion canal holding back drainage of blind river the duck hunting really went downhill. That's how my dad splained it. He used to hunt on what is now the WMA
The Diversion levees have been here for 60 years, I'm not sure how that caused a change.
Posted on 8/14/12 at 9:47 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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DownshiftAndFloorIt
You happen to go check out my dove field? Looks pretty good, but I don't think it'll be mature for opening day. May be a second split field. I did have a couple deer feeding in it.
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