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re: trouble on the waterfowling horizon.....
Posted on 11/28/12 at 10:07 am to Capt ST
Posted on 11/28/12 at 10:07 am to Capt ST
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I remember it like it was yesterday, my grandfather bitching at my dad for shooting a greenhead, "pintails only!" . They were a 10 pt bird back in the day.
My Dad would do the same to me way back then.
One just didn't shoot a 25 point bird unless you had 90 points first. 
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Posted on 11/28/12 at 10:13 am to fishfighter
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One just didn't shoot a 25 point bird unless you had 90 points first
Or telling green jeans you shot that wood duck at 9 and he's cold as ice and the greenhead is still twitching. I think that's what got me so good a figuring math in my head.
Posted on 11/28/12 at 10:18 am to choupiquesushi
I would love to go back to 3 duck limits. Times were much better when there were less yahoos that suddenly became "duck men". I would start duck hunting again.
Posted on 11/28/12 at 10:26 am to INFIDEL
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Times were much better when there were less yahoos that suddenly became "duck men".
Yes it was. I remember late 80s-early 90s when you got in a bind at the Wax you better have packed a MRE and some matches it might be a while. Catahoula was the same way, wasn't bad when it went to 4, but when it got to 5 people started coming out the woodwork.
Posted on 11/28/12 at 10:50 am to Capt ST
I remember the 3/30 days VERY vivify it coinsided with some of the best migrating weather we had in a while. Although the population was down we were seeing amazing numbers of birds most of the 3/30 days.
The thing I credit for 3/30 was finally making me realize that the limit meant something. Before 3/30 it was nothing for my dad and I to go out and shoot 150-200 ducks a morning (over bait) if they were there. While 3/30 my dad was still all for kill as many as come in, I wasn't and I ended up convincing him what we had been doing was wrong. Since the 3/30 days I haven't purposely broken the limit since. I messed up one time when I accidentally nocked 7 pintals down out of a flock with one shot (not all dead) and the limit was 1, and I was by myself. Other than that I have been by the book. Without me learning more and more about the duck populations back then I likely would be unable to hunt migratory birds today along with my dad as we would have been busted sooner or later.
The thing I credit for 3/30 was finally making me realize that the limit meant something. Before 3/30 it was nothing for my dad and I to go out and shoot 150-200 ducks a morning (over bait) if they were there. While 3/30 my dad was still all for kill as many as come in, I wasn't and I ended up convincing him what we had been doing was wrong. Since the 3/30 days I haven't purposely broken the limit since. I messed up one time when I accidentally nocked 7 pintals down out of a flock with one shot (not all dead) and the limit was 1, and I was by myself. Other than that I have been by the book. Without me learning more and more about the duck populations back then I likely would be unable to hunt migratory birds today along with my dad as we would have been busted sooner or later.
Posted on 11/28/12 at 10:55 am to Da Hammer
7 pintail in one shot?
Posted on 11/28/12 at 10:58 am to Croacka
I shite you not on the pintails, I couldn't make that up if I tried. I am not that good of a shot either, it was a large flock and they all broke at the same time as I pulled the trigger. It was ugly. I have a whole lot of other stories from the early days that are far worse than that, however I'll never post most of them on the net.
Posted on 11/28/12 at 11:03 am to Capt ST
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Yes it was. I remember late 80s-early 90s
Hell, I remember hunting in the 1960's when you went out with 4-5 boxes of shells per person to shoot some birds.
1500lbs of corn per pond 2 weeks before season was a must. The good oh days of hunting. Remember my Dad hunting with a mounted punt gun in a pirouge to market sell ducks in the Quarters.
He used to hand paint his decoys about three weeks before the season every year. Oh, they were wood decoys. When plastic came out, he gave the decoys away. 
Posted on 11/28/12 at 11:13 am to fishfighter
i was having a talk at the duck camp last week with a younger guy who had no idea about the 3/30 or the old point system. I was trying to explain to him that a mallard hen was 100 points, so you had to shoot it"last". that was laughable. I have also always wondered how closing the duck season nationwide for one year would affect the population. I know it will never happen because of the money issue, but wouldn't it really boost the population if you had an entire year of new ducks survive to breed next year???
Posted on 11/28/12 at 11:13 am to Croacka
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This post was edited on 3/26/13 at 10:37 am
Posted on 11/28/12 at 11:14 am to fishfighter
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When plastic came out, he gave the decoys away.
we used them for fire wood. All I have left is the draw knife my Dad's uncle used to make the bodies. It's sickening the stuff we got rid of.
Posted on 11/28/12 at 11:17 am to Capt ST
Hurricanes have taken all of our old decoys. I currently have about 10 of our older decoys. THe thing I have that I think is the neatest is two very old motorized pirogues that we glassed seed spreaders into to spread corn in the ponds with. I am working on a display in my "man cave" with one of them and some old shells, guns, corn, and dead mounts.
Posted on 11/28/12 at 11:21 am to Capt ST
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It's sickening the stuff we got rid of.
We lost all kinds of old 8mm film of hunts from the 1960's-1970's in Katrina. We did try to have them fixed, but they stayed under water to long per the people that tryed to copy them over.
That made me sick!
Posted on 11/28/12 at 11:24 am to fishfighter
wasn't there a brief time in 60s where limit was in fact 2?
hammer. .yeah.. I went wild in the old days..
then when I was in VA in Navy.. and was training dogs for and with I was hunting with.. they wouldn't let me hunt the "blind" alone.. because... I was from LA and would "kill way over the limit" every chance I had..... that perception.... shook me...
also.. talking to people at doggie games where I killed in one weekend.. what they killed in a whole season.... made me feel a little guilty.
this was also about the time the dave hall videos went out...
hammer. .yeah.. I went wild in the old days..
then when I was in VA in Navy.. and was training dogs for and with I was hunting with.. they wouldn't let me hunt the "blind" alone.. because... I was from LA and would "kill way over the limit" every chance I had..... that perception.... shook me...
also.. talking to people at doggie games where I killed in one weekend.. what they killed in a whole season.... made me feel a little guilty.
this was also about the time the dave hall videos went out...
Posted on 11/28/12 at 11:54 am to choupiquesushi
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also.. talking to people at doggie games where I killed in one weekend.. what they killed in a whole season.... made me feel a little guilty.
My Army buddy from MN and I swapped hunts in 90 or 91. Went up there saw a few birds, killed a few nothing to speak of really. But the whole time I heard from guys up there about how we were killing all the birds and thats why they didn't have any. Tried to explain to them that deep lakes and evergreen forest aren't the ideal habitat for waterfowl. When he got down here and the birds started getting off the refuge on Catahoula his face was priceless. He saw more birds in one morning than he'd seen his entire life he said.
Posted on 11/28/12 at 12:24 pm to treble hook
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quote: Croacka
You still hunting Angelina?
Nope, pecan island this year and doing pretty good so far
Posted on 11/28/12 at 12:32 pm to choupiquesushi
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and it's almost difficult to remember the days with tougher restrictions, like the ridiculous point system.
Remember this, and the three duck limit, well. The latter almost killed duck hunting.
This post was edited on 11/28/12 at 12:36 pm
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