What's the name for.....

Mark W

Mark W

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When you see ducks circling and sit down on a log in the water to hide a little bit. The ducks come closer and closer and have their wings set. Here they come. Get ready, get ready - "what the heck?" Why am I wet. Oh yeah, the darn log broke and dumped me in the slough. There go the ducks.

Or, I'm at the back of the boat, outside the boat standing in the water. I'm trying to get a piece of tree out of my way. I see something out of the corner of my eye, two big drake mallards with their wings set coming into the dekes. No way can I get to the gun, which is at the front of the boat, in time to take a shot. I watch them fly away again.

That's it for the birds I saw today. Why is it that whenever you aren't looking, or doing something else, the darn birds come in flocks? There has got to be a word for this other than the four letter word I was uttering when these two events happened.

Duck hunting is the worst I have seen in many years. I have shot a total of 14 ducks and 2 geese. A retired buddy who hunts all the time has shot a total of 4 birds this whole year and he typically has a better spot than where I cruise around. Not a good year at all, not at all. Maybe I'll take up knitting or scrapbooking.

Mark W
 
You mean like last Sunday morning, hadn't seen a duck closer than 200 yards for an hour and a half. I pour a cup of coffee and hand it to my buddy, turn around and there is a drake GE wings set and feet down - too bad my buddy had a cup of coffee in his hand and couldn't shoot :)

My season so far is about what it has been in recent years, pretty good. The best is the next three weeks. 2/3 rds of my birds so far have been with the 28 ga., the rest a 20 ga SxS. The way it's going I should finish the season quite a bit better than the last two, which were records for me. We'll see.
 
.........Or when you unload the gun so as to start picking up the dekes...........and ofcourse ...........here they come! You try to get shells back in the chamber in time but all the movement has spooked the birds and you never get a shot.............Yea, I call that "getting skunked" or something like that. Some would call it "Murphy's Law"............Yea, I've been there................Kevin
 
Mark,
Bummer....been there done that. ;)
The simple answer is that you are "flagging" the birds. We know that flagging draws birds. When you are moving around, pouring coffee, checking the decoys or peeing..........your gross body movements (I don't mean body functions there) perform the same effect as flagging.
It's a common phenomena and all of us have had it happen. ;)
Later partner,
Lou
 
Oh yeah, the darn log broke and dumped me in the slough.
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Mark,

If this ever happens when hunting with Lou, just remember what he said. That way when Lou asks, "What happened, log break?" You can reply, "No, I was just flagging."
 
Morton and I get up to pee when it's slow... sure enough, the ducks come right in and there we are holding the wrong gun.

A.
 
Mark,

If this ever happens when hunting with Lou, just remember what he said. That way when Lou asks, "What happened, log break?" You can reply, "No, I was just flagging."
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Too funny.........and that would have to be followed up with ...."...and, here's your sign". ;)
Lou
 
Morton and I get up to pee when it's slow... sure enough, the ducks come right in and there we are holding the wrong gun.

A.
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You pee together?? eeiiiwwwhhh!!!

I joke and say get ready boys, I am getting the duck attractor out and damn it, if half the time it doesn't work and they get shooting and there I stand holding the bag, trying not to pull a Tred in my waders.
 
been many ducks this season....

Just think about how much trouble you might be in if you had killed four or five times the number of birds....

Heck though, if that was the case, we could at least say that we know had someone whose job was "in prison" on the "what do you do threads" in the future....thats one we don't have at this time.....

Good luck on the next court date....sure would like to see pictures of the bird in question....I still don't think you're looking at a hybrid Mallard X Black as indicated because of the size you state the bird is....

Steve
 
It never fails. I have a buddy who always says that it's time to wrap up, just to sit there another 5 or 10 minutes waiting for the inevitable winged visitors to the spread. Or when you are standing up in plain site to stretch or pee. Or when the local CO pays you a visit. He has your gun in his hands and the only ducks of the day are cupped heading for your dekes. Never fails.
 
Wait a minute , my partner Andrew may drink those Lattes but he is not a fruit , at least i do not think he is and We DO NOT PEE together !!!! Andrew gets restless that is when i know it is time for me to shoot some ducks .




Dave
 
when the warden is drawing your bow back too check letoff and a spike walks out in front of you
or you set up at no tellum hole and at day light see a boat about 60 yards away that never let ya know they were there before you (just flash a light ill move on its your spot fair and square) or drive out opening day 40 miles from the next nearest scouted lake too find the water drained for some sort of summer maintainance weed control
ahh the list goes on
 
Actually, what you call the phenomena.....is......A Harker. Sneeze when 30 mallards just commit...you pulled A Harker.....fart and mess your pants when 10 geese are cupping and twisting losing air to land in your dekes...you just pulled A Harker. Pull up on the only bird to come withing 200 yards and click...you just pulled A Harker....tell a sweet looking waitress she has beautiful hams stuffed in her pants....you just pulled A Sutton.
 
I had a buddy who attracted ducks when he went behind the blind to attend to natures call.
I aways stopped to buy him an extra thermos of coffee to improve MY shooting!!
Worked for ME!! John
 
Busted.
Bumped 'em.
Knocked 'em.
Nuts.

Very first hunt I'm in the blind with my dad's buddy.
Dad's in the decoys moving things a bit.
Only birds that flew that morning were at that moment. I still here it. "Hey, Jim... JIM. JIM! Overhead." reply "ahh Nuts, no gun". The birds almost sat down on him. Now I have this need to check decoys and stretch my legs with my gun over my shoulder.
 
Been there, done that and I'll betcha most of this crowd has done the same or worse.

Always remember this, You have to be tough to be stupid.

If you can catch Murphy looking the other way you will have a great day.

Good luck,
Harry
 
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