re: What's everyone's outlook on their 2nd split of duck season?

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so you make a post about hunting a private family farm and then tel people to get out, stop bitching, and hunt public?

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Plenty of public places where the ducks to want to be if you do your homework. If they’re on private land with little to no pressure, they’re on public areas with the same. Public areas up there are nothing like they are in LA and AR. Duck hunting isn’t to them what it is to us. Their public land hunting can be quite peaceful.

I also said to go ask for permission on private land. What’s the worst that can happen? They say no?

We were there pheasant hunting and made bonus waterfowl hunts. This is something we discussed with the land owner. They too have noticed the migration pattern change over the last 30 or so years. Where they used to have the big pushes of birds heading south and then back north, now they just stay and hang around until they’re gone in the spring. Times have changed and you must too if you want to shoot birds like the days of old.

Davidwademarine. Maybe you only read the word you wanted to in my comment. I put in there these guys covered hundreds of miles up there. Had multi guides and farmers lined up months in advance. They do this trip every year for 8 straight days. Its nothing but a hunt and kill situation. They sleep in a dang camper shell on the truck! They do their homework and have for 10+ years. If they say the birds were not there put money on it ol son.
Then your ignorant arse turns around quotes my post then proceeds to tell me they need to scout more and hunt public grounds harder like they haven't tried that or vested relationships with farmers up there over the last decade....come on with a little reading comprehension, all the while you are referencing hunting a private farm in a completely different fricking state and area!!! Talk about a moron comment

Y'all ever notice how the same people don't kill ducks every year? And those people like to generalize their personal experience across an entire state based on other guys' anectodal experience. And this group honestly hasn't killed ducks since like the 90's.

Then you have the guys who do kill ducks. In the same state. Very often hunting public land (not just talking about Venice either).

I wonder what the difference is between these two groups. The former group loves to say the difference is "Big Money"... The ole "ya gotta have big $ to kill ducks these days" rhetoric. It has a real nice socialist ring to it. Well, I would posit that the difference is usually not anything to do with money.

For years I would decline wealthy friends' offers to come hunt their private lease, like "no thanks I ll keep hunting over here killing limits and you keep doing you with the wind in your face because your wooden blind only faces one direction"

Jusssst saying, there's other factors. The world isn't ending. The guys who really want to kill ducks,, they are going to keep killing them, one place or another. It's been this way for that last half a century and it will remain as such for the next 50 years I'd imagine.

Snuck a nice lil straw-man style burn in there! Very nice. And managed to only address the throw-away portion of my post.This is good.