Shooting birds on the water... - Page 2

LundLover · 09-14-2007, 06:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex T.

Rabbits don't fly??

Man,I've hunted rabbits before and never bagged one cause I waited for them to take flight first.

Alex

Ever seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Man, Rabbits are DANGEROUS and should be taken with extreme caution, preferably the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

elkstalkr · 09-14-2007, 07:09 PM

To each his own, on this subject. I don't do it most of the time because I like the challenge of wing shooting. BUT when it comes to Snow Geese and Resident Canada Geese I have no mercy there, let'em land and wipe'm out!

clucker · 09-14-2007, 07:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex T.

OBG,
Shooting a dove off a powerline or anything for that matter is illegal.

Alex

To add to this:

"it is illegal to shoot doves or bobwhite quail except
when in flight." NGPC Hunting Guide.

nehunter88 · 09-14-2007, 08:23 PM

It seems to me the difference would be, are you hunting or killing. If you're hunting you shoot them in the air. If you're just killing ducks, then it really doesn't matter one way or the other, does it.

Scotty · 09-14-2007, 10:03 PM

In my blind on the river, I let land and walk up on the sandbar. At 20 yds I have not lost one yet. For me it beats winging one that lands in the current across the river that is swift and over my waders.

Patrick Olson · 09-14-2007, 10:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keith S.

For everyone saying that they don't do it, how many of you have jumped snow geese?

Never killed a snow other than over decoys. To tell the truth, I love jumpers. They scare the birds into my decoys. Without them the RWBs would be miserable when the smart birds don't get broken up.

Just have always found that when I have the option to jump, I also have to option to throw out the decoys. And the latter takes precedence.

Good Hunting,
PATRICK OLSON

Patrick Olson · 09-14-2007, 10:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AnglerX

Just curious and to derail the thread for a moment. or a rabbit out of plum thicket, or a squirrel in a tree?

That is what a .22 is for. Rabbits will stop and so will squirrels.

Good Hunting,
PATRICK OLSON

BPbowhunter · 09-14-2007, 10:45 PM

I probably wouldn't shoot them if I just walked up on them. If they landed in the dekes than I would wait and shoot them as they fly up. But I won't hesitate to shoot a cripple or anything like that off of the water.

Tripp · 09-15-2007, 12:15 AM

I have to admit I have been known to lay a shot across their bow to get them up and have been a little to close to the bow. The devil made me do it honest.

Tripp

Shep · 09-15-2007, 02:10 PM

I always tried to kill my birds flying. I met an old timer from Maine who told me he shot 60+ grouse (ruffed) a year and I was amazed.

When I moved to maine I found out how. Anyway you can. If your dog is pointing em and you see them standing out front. Gun em!!
If they flush and you get them flying all the better.
My favorite way is the dog flushes them and they go into a tree above the dog and stare down at him. If you heard the bird fly and stop, you come in slow scanning the trees for a bulge. When you spot it, take it's head off with a load of 7&1/2's !! These partridge are absolutely the best eating.. Not all shot up and full of pellets!
Road hunting the logging roads is a long time honored Maine tradition!

If a fella didn't Arkansas one or wack one out of a tree now and then, he'd be a long time between partridge dinners!!

**Ty Stromquist** · 09-15-2007, 02:14 PM

Its actually harder to kill them on the water anyway. So why not take them with those wings opened?

unless you can head rake em.

Charlie · 09-15-2007, 10:03 PM

Have only whacked em as cripples. Have jumped ducks/geese, have decoyed ducks/geese always shot while in flight.

While on the water there is less body mass and no wings out streched, cripples are hard to kill. Chased one last year for a couple hundred yards and three bullets before getting one pellet in the head. Darn things dive/swim faster than I walk in the water anymore. Always has been a hard kill for me. And yea I aim at the head, still a hard kill. Used to carry 8's when lead was legal, seemed to work no better but that was what we used for the cripples. Of course my dog "Tico" was the best cripple getter I ever had, what a dog! I do miss her.

Charlie

Diver Mike · 09-15-2007, 10:11 PM

When I was 12 I shot them on the water, only when my Dad wasn't looking. Not since I was 12, no sport in it

Holi Comet · 09-15-2007, 10:47 PM

I Arkansawed the first duck I ever shot, because I didn't know better. Was hunting alone. That's the last one I ever shot on the water.

kaiserduckhelm · 09-16-2007, 12:04 AM

Hardly ever do it, what's the point.

NEHONKERS · 09-16-2007, 02:16 AM

Can't remember the last time. Myself and the guys I hunt with are religious about shooting drakes only when it comes to ducks so it dosen't happen. Decoys get sprayed, lots of crips, nah not for me.

Shep · 09-16-2007, 07:31 AM

I wish our ducking was good enough to support a drakes only shoot but that only happens once a twice a year. It's really hard to wait til those Black ducks get close enough to tell the difference in the bill color!!

Actually, if we've got a good mallard spot, we always try to take the drakes.

goose abuser · 09-16-2007, 09:15 AM

My girlfriend shot her first ducks on the water on her first hunt, I refuse to let her do it now. Same with the 14 year old next door.

I like em comming in breast first, hard to get a crippled bird that way.

Gary Benson · 09-16-2007, 09:20 AM

Anybody shoot clay pigeons laying on the ground too? Has it always been legal to shoot ducks while sitting? Guess I always thought they had to be flying.

south of 41 · 09-16-2007, 09:39 AM

Shot a few rabbit clays in my day. The bounce will get you too!

09-14-2007, 08:23 PM	#24 (permalink)
nehunter88 Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 141 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	It seems to me the difference would be, are you hunting or killing. If you're hunting you shoot them in the air. If you're just killing ducks, then it really doesn't matter one way or the other, does it. __________________ Whoever said cats always land on their feet wasn't throwing them right.-Anonymous

09-14-2007, 10:45 PM	#28 (permalink)
BPbowhunter 2007 NEFGA Outdoorsman Of The Year Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Broken Bow Posts: 2,346 Thanks: 5 Thanked 10 Times in 9 Posts	I probably wouldn't shoot them if I just walked up on them. If they landed in the dekes than I would wait and shoot them as they fly up. But I won't hesitate to shoot a cripple or anything like that off of the water. __________________ Whackin' Woodies Waterfowl Crew "Look, a pair of singles!"

09-15-2007, 02:14 PM	#31 (permalink)
Ty Stromquist Moderator Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: in a treestand Posts: 3,771 Thanks: 42 Thanked 13 Times in 11 Posts	Its actually harder to kill them on the water anyway. So why not take them with those wings opened? unless you can head rake em. __________________ How can I be lost...... if ive got no where to go. Unless your going to eat the horns or mount it, let that buck walk by. Shoot a doe

09-15-2007, 10:03 PM	#32 (permalink)
Charlie Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Fairbury NE Posts: 77 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Have only whacked em as cripples. Have jumped ducks/geese, have decoyed ducks/geese always shot while in flight. While on the water there is less body mass and no wings out streched, cripples are hard to kill. Chased one last year for a couple hundred yards and three bullets before getting one pellet in the head. Darn things dive/swim faster than I walk in the water anymore. Always has been a hard kill for me. And yea I aim at the head, still a hard kill. Used to carry 8's when lead was legal, seemed to work no better but that was what we used for the cripples. Of course my dog "Tico" was the best cripple getter I ever had, what a dog! I do miss her. Charlie __________________ If you don't know where you're going, chances are you will end up somewhere else. quote. 'Yogi Berra' Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. 'Winston Churchill'

09-15-2007, 10:11 PM	#33 (permalink)
Diver Mike Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 18 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	yep When I was 12 I shot them on the water, only when my Dad wasn't looking. Not since I was 12, no sport in it

09-14-2007, 07:09 PM	#22 (permalink)
elkstalkr Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Papillion Posts: 535 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	To each his own, on this subject. I don't do it most of the time because I like the challenge of wing shooting. BUT when it comes to Snow Geese and Resident Canada Geese I have no mercy there, let'em land and wipe'm out!

09-14-2007, 10:03 PM	#25 (permalink)
Scotty Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Grand Island Posts: 246 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	In my blind on the river, I let land and walk up on the sandbar. At 20 yds I have not lost one yet. For me it beats winging one that lands in the current across the river that is swift and over my waders.

09-15-2007, 12:15 AM	#29 (permalink)
Tripp Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Omaha and Schuyler Posts: 39 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I have to admit I have been known to lay a shot across their bow to get them up and have been a little to close to the bow. The devil made me do it honest. Tripp

09-15-2007, 02:10 PM	#30 (permalink)
Shep Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Maine Posts: 150 Thanks: 0 Thanked 5 Times in 2 Posts	I always tried to kill my birds flying. I met an old timer from Maine who told me he shot 60+ grouse (ruffed) a year and I was amazed. When I moved to maine I found out how. Anyway you can. If your dog is pointing em and you see them standing out front. Gun em!! If they flush and you get them flying all the better. My favorite way is the dog flushes them and they go into a tree above the dog and stare down at him. If you heard the bird fly and stop, you come in slow scanning the trees for a bulge. When you spot it, take it's head off with a load of 7&1/2's !! These partridge are absolutely the best eating.. Not all shot up and full of pellets! Road hunting the logging roads is a long time honored Maine tradition! If a fella didn't Arkansas one or wack one out of a tree now and then, he'd be a long time between partridge dinners!!

09-15-2007, 10:47 PM	#34 (permalink)
Holi Comet Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Lincoln Posts: 117 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I Arkansawed the first duck I ever shot, because I didn't know better. Was hunting alone. That's the last one I ever shot on the water.

09-16-2007, 12:04 AM	#35 (permalink)
kaiserduckhelm Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 242 Thanks: 0 Thanked 6 Times in 3 Posts	Hardly ever do it, what's the point. __________________ Out-the-Window Outfitters. "Our drinking team has a hunting problem."

09-16-2007, 02:16 AM	#36 (permalink)
NEHONKERS Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Lincoln Posts: 87 Thanks: 1 Thanked 3 Times in 2 Posts	Can't remember the last time. Myself and the guys I hunt with are religious about shooting drakes only when it comes to ducks so it dosen't happen. Decoys get sprayed, lots of crips, nah not for me.

09-16-2007, 07:31 AM	#37 (permalink)
Shep Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Maine Posts: 150 Thanks: 0 Thanked 5 Times in 2 Posts	I wish our ducking was good enough to support a drakes only shoot but that only happens once a twice a year. It's really hard to wait til those Black ducks get close enough to tell the difference in the bill color!! Actually, if we've got a good mallard spot, we always try to take the drakes.

09-16-2007, 09:15 AM	#38 (permalink)
goose abuser Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 469 Thanks: 2 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	My girlfriend shot her first ducks on the water on her first hunt, I refuse to let her do it now. Same with the 14 year old next door. I like em comming in breast first, hard to get a crippled bird that way. __________________ My frilled dragon eats more than your frilled dragon...

09-16-2007, 09:20 AM	#39 (permalink)
Gary Benson Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Cambridge NE Posts: 97 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Anybody shoot clay pigeons laying on the ground too? Has it always been legal to shoot ducks while sitting? Guess I always thought they had to be flying.

09-16-2007, 09:39 AM	#40 (permalink)
south of 41 Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: sea monster Posts: 2,222 Thanks: 0 Thanked 12 Times in 5 Posts	Shot a few rabbit clays in my day. The bounce will get you too! __________________ The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. Eighty percent of success is showing up. RECOVERING NICOTINE ADDICT SINCE April 6th 2008

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