I am PO'd :-(

hey i saw a hen canvasback once. set in the decoys bout 4 years ago couldnt shoot it of course, other then that never seen a live drake here in vt.

for once steve i agree with everything you said in this post, and you've got me all shuck up to go to the vermont regs meeting wednesday. ive been to a bunch of those public meetings for deer hunting and they hate when you ask questions that they dont hold precooked pop out of the freezer and hand it to you like a fast ball answers to. or when you call the head of the wildlife board a moron to his face.
but yea if they allow accidental hens then i should be able to shoot accidental does. the only issue here in vermont is when our season opens very few and i mean very few drake mallards or anything else for that matter has full plumage or even enough to identify the bird as drake or hen until in the hand. opening day last year i shot 3 drake mallards one had no drake color on him at all the only way i could tell was he had an olive /yellow bill and he was 15 yds away standing on the beach quaking like a drake. out of the other two only one had a little green on his head, sept for the first one both these birds were semi cripples that had just left the guns from a blind bout 100yrds away.
seems like the only way to tell them apart is let them land in the water and watch em close for a little while them blast away, but that takes the fun right out from under my wings so to speak.

yea i think im gonna go back to school to become a biologist so i can understand what the hell they're thinking on this one.

charlie- you gonna be at that meeting i think it starts at 7 but im not sure.

eddie
 
Lobby the Game Commission to open the season LATE instead of sticking to that rediculous EARLY opener that was established by tradition and longer season of long ago.....

Will you loss shooting because of "hard" water.....sure....but you'll enjoy better shooting and the advanced plummage development would make it easier to tells the girls from the boys.....

Course that makes hunting harder so I'd "guess" that you'd have a lot of opposition from those guys that that quote I used earlier refers to, (and that sadly do exist), and who, want the "easier" hunting of the early season....

By the way....we open in the West Coast the 2nd week of October and see the same problems here....its always a choice...pass on the ones that you can't tell for sure are drakes, OR, beleive the science and not worry about it....

Steve
 
Chinese buffet. I think I could probably feed the most famished sharks to satiation with the trough feeders that pile the fried morsels of chicken and pork so high it rolls off the plate like horse turds. You can actually hear congestive heart failure kicking in...."uh...mmm....wheeze".

I guess if I were a surfer....and I'd undoubtedly look very unappetizing to any critter that may see me in my skin at beach anyway, I'd probably have a huge photo of Liza Minelli air painted on the bottom of my board...just staring right down at those toothy critters. Probably scare them right back to the deep.
 
Have I ever told you I hate this 'Hunter's Choice" limit we are under in the central flyway? For the first time in my life two canvasbacks will be allowed in every flyway except for the central flyway. We still get the choice of shooting one hen mallard or one pintail or one canvasback. GRRRRRRRRRRRR.........
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Tim, don't worry, you've got all season to shoot a hen mallard, a pintail, and a canvasback!! Maybe if you're lucky you'll even get to count your season total on two hands! (insert thumbs up smiley here, followed by devil horns smiley).

We have a meeting (Regulations & Traditions) on Thursday, so we'll see how that goes... Apparently our F&G rep has conceded on the scaup, but we'll beat the snot out of him until he starts fighting for us. Too much money here pushing for pintail, but we've got some vocal diver hunters that aren't worried about pissin' anyone off.

Oh yeah, (this ain't P.C. or in the vein of "It's about being out there, not necessarily killing ducks.", BUT) we're gonna slaughter some cans this year!!! I'll be sure to send you pics!! (insert smiley of me running from you!)
 
the stupid thing here in vt is we have a split season on the lake champlain zone and it stays open from the day it starts til closing on interior zones. so most likely our season opens the first or second wednesday in oct goes for 8-10 days or so then shuts down for 10 days (while every birds migrates through new england) then opens again til dec 16th or so. we should open 3rd week of oct and stay til dec.

luckily i live on the border of the lake zone and interior so as they come over the bridge of rt 7 from the lake side into the interior side i could stand there and shoot'em in the ass as they cross ;)

but your right it is choice and i choose to try my best to identify before i shoot but i will say if the only duck to enter my gun range after four hours of hunting on a shitty weather day is that accidental hen mallard im gonna take her and have her for lunch and call it a morning. as for cans and bluebills should i see one i will count it as a miracle should i get the chance to shoot one, well if its not black and white i wont pull my trigger, and hope that bird makes it south.

eddie
 
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