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Originally Posted by huskerbowhunter
Pat what is a Nebraska black on your hit list? That would have been so sweet to shoot that thing in December. It woulda been sweet to see that tail all curled up. Also as stated above, would you count that as your mallard limit or pintail limit? Not sure if they even have rules for this situation??
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Black duck that somehow winds up in Nebraska.
They have strict rules on hybrids back East where hybridization between black ducks and Mallards is a huge problem. Basically, any identifiable marks (i.e. white bar in the speculum) suggesting that it could be a hybrid sends it into the Mallard limit so that more hybrids get removed. Here, it is certainly not a problem and there are no strict guidlines. But, I it is generally goes to whichever species shows more prominence. I would always go by the speculum (
not that it occurs too often
). Josh's he shot last year would go into the mallard. Clearly has mostly mallard in it. Yours looks closer to a pin. All of the pics I have seen of Pin X Mallards look mostly like pins, Josh's is the one exception I have seen.
Genetically speaking, hybrids are horrible, especially when they are fertile as is often the case between Black X Mallards. Shoot them all. Give yourself a pat on the back for removing that bad boy from the gene pool.
PO