Nice pics DEC! Looks like the dog is having a blast too!
Hunting on dry ground. That looks much more fun to me compared to waders, boats, water, etc.
I started last year. Tons of fun, and cool watching the dogs at work. I'm quickly turning into a gear snob though!
I have duck hunted since I was old enough to hunt. I go a couple times a year but my brother who still lives near our lake goes frequently.
I have killed just about every kind of duck that inhabits the midwest. Mallards, woodies, 3 kinds of teal, widgeon, black ducks, pintails, blue bills, gadwalls, mergansers, red heads, canvasback, ruddy ducks, bufflehead and probably some more that I am forgetting about.
Duck hunting is far more social than deer hunting. We've sat in the blnd playing football games on the radio with shirts off getting sunburned. We've also froze nearly to death.
I like it because you get to see all sorts of different wildlife. I watched otters tobogganing down snow covered hills, watched eagles and osprey fish. Seen huge bucks slinking around the cattails. Coons, possums, squirrels all close enough to touch. I also like to bird watch and get to see lots of marsh birds that you would never see in the woods.
Good clean fun except for the stink, the muck, the black ooze everywhere but oh well. That's duck hunting.
Went pheasant hunting for the first time today and loved it. Next on the list is duck or goose hunting. Anyone know of a good public spot near Brownsburg for a noob to go?
The pond on the north side of Lowes is loaded.