East opener report

Went to sherburne section 120 for the first time. We got there a little later than I wanted (6:10am) and everyone was already shooting when we were walking up. Waited around until 8am and left after never seeing the first set of ducks to call… tomorrow I might try and bring the boat out there tomorrow now that I have a better idea of the land

Hunted a slough on public land. Saw quite a few wood ducks, but never got a shot opportunity.

Had one set of guys to my left about 100 yards away that were in the middle of the damn slough with lights on 15 minutes before shooting light, and a guy to my left that started shooting 10 minutes before shooting light.

Gotta love public land.

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Plenty of light to shoot by at 5:50 baw.

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Tell that to green jeans...

One Gray south of 15 where I was but there were better bags in other blinds. I didn’t take any passing shots early when there were chances.

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Had many days hunting public. Your narrative brought back bad memories! Lol. God bless!!

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And I'll do it all again tomorrow.

I don't know if that makes me dumb, brave, stubborn, persistent, or all of the above...

If you bringing a boat to section 120, you better get there a day earlier to get in line.

Went again this morning. Had one set of guys move in 20 minutes before shooting light to setup 60-70 yards from me. Scared every duck in the hole away. Then talked loud as hell the entire time. Twice had BBs rain down on me (harmlessly, but still not cool).

That's just my luck sometimes.

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Yeah I would have called those guys out. No way I’m hunting all morning like that

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There was at least 2 of them, and only one of me. All of them sounded very oilfield baw like...I thought about it, but I'm smart enough to know that wasn't going to end well...

Besides, after about 30 minutes of seeing no ducks, I left. They had pretty much scared all of them off anyway.

Funniest thing was listening to them debate who shot what once...sounded like Jase and Si from duck dynasty.

"I shot twice and hit both."

"Well I shot and hit one."

"Well, we may have both hit that one, but I definitely shot twice and hit both."

I'm currently out of town but the report back from buddies on Catahoula Lake was it was the worst opener in years, but no shock there.

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Went again this morning. Had one set of guys move in 20 minutes before shooting light to setup 60-70 yards from me. Scared every duck in the hole away. Then talked loud as hell the entire time. Twice had BBs rain down on me (harmlessly, but still not cool). That's just my luck sometimes.

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I’ve been hunting public land for almost 20 years now. If the birds don’t show up you can always count on some entertainment from the yahoos out there.

I’ve seen guys argue over who shot the sole duck, a “green wing teal” when asked by green jeans who shot was turned out to be a wood duck during teal season.

I’ve seen guys float into a pond I was hunting and try ground swatting my decoys from 100+ yards away.