Does anyone recommend an affordable E collar or have a good one they want to sell?

Does anyone recommend an affordable E collar or have a good one they want to sell?

Bring it on, the colder the better...and the more I enjoy it.

I'm sure that there are several people that will disagree with this but I think that our days of getting pushes of ducks with cold-weather are over with. I've been keeping a log book of birds killed weather conditions etc. since 1996. In 1996 and 1997 we shot somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 mallards per year. Every year since then that number has declined down to the point where the last five years we have not kill more than 50 mallards in a season. (Out of 2000 ish birds/yr)

So what has changed – planting practices for hunting ducks.
There's an immense amount of land the Midwest that is planted in corn and flooded for mallards. My friends that Hunt that area say that the mallards will stand on top of 2 inch thick ice and eat the corn. And the biologist say this is a big part of population growth for mallards and Canada geese-lowered migration mortality because they have cut their migration distance in half and have unlimited food source.

The birds that we kill predominantly in central Texas our photo migrators. They are heading to the coast that basically the same time each year based on the link the day more than whether. Those being gadwalls, teal, redheads.

Back in 96 and 97 I could show that a strong southern dipping Arctic front would bring huge numbers of mallards to our area. What I show now is a strong dipping Arctic front takes our local birds and pushes them to the coast.

What I have seen the last 6 to 7 years is that a strong front blows pur birds out and our best hunts are generally 2 to 3 days after the cold front with a strong Southwind where we get coastal birds coming up.

I think the long drought and then this year the decent rains had more to do with the sets of twins than the weather of this coming winter.

I'm sure that there are several people that will disagree with this but I think that our days of getting pushes of ducks with cold-weather are over with. I've been keeping a log book of birds killed weather conditions etc. since 1996. In 1996 and 1997 we shot somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 mallards per year. Every year since then that number has declined down to the point where the last five years we have not kill more than 50 mallards in a season. (Out of 2000 ish birds/yr)

So what has changed – planting practices for hunting ducks. There's an immense amount of land the Midwest that is planted in corn and flooded for mallards. My friends that Hunt that area say that the mallards will stand on top of 2 inch thick ice and eat the corn. And the biologist say this is a big part of population growth for mallards and Canada geese-lowered migration mortality because they have cut their migration distance in half and have unlimited food source.

The birds that we kill predominantly in central Texas our photo migrators. They are heading to the coast that basically the same time each year based on the link the day more than whether. Those being gadwalls, teal, redheads.

Back in 96 and 97 I could show that a strong southern dipping Arctic front would bring huge numbers of mallards to our area. What I show now is a strong dipping Arctic front takes our local birds and pushes them to the coast.

What I have seen the last 6 to 7 years is that a strong front blows pur birds out and our best hunts are generally 2 to 3 days after the cold front with a strong Southwind where we get coastal birds coming up.

Bring it on, the colder the better...and the more I enjoy it.

I can buy some of that but I really don't think that there is so much corn planted that it stops the entire migration of mallards. Now my records on the ranch show that we have been in a drouth from half Azz to full blown since 1996 in Texas, but lots of rain north of us and most farming moving from centex to westtex and you prolly have the answer to your mallard problem. If they are planting so much corn to flood for ducks that it's stopping them from migrating then we have bigger problems that need to be addressed

Does anyone recommend an affordable E collar or have a good one they want to sell?

I'm sure that there are several people that will disagree with this but I think that our days of getting pushes of ducks with cold-weather are over with. I've been keeping a log book of birds killed weather conditions etc. since 1996. In 1996 and 1997 we shot somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 mallards per year. Every year since then that number has declined down to the point where the last five years we have not kill more than 50 mallards in a season. (Out of 2000 ish birds/yr)

So what has changed – planting practices for hunting ducks. There's an immense amount of land the Midwest that is planted in corn and flooded for mallards. My friends that Hunt that area say that the mallards will stand on top of 2 inch thick ice and eat the corn. And the biologist say this is a big part of population growth for mallards and Canada geese-lowered migration mortality because they have cut their migration distance in half and have unlimited food source.

The birds that we kill predominantly in central Texas our photo migrators. They are heading to the coast that basically the same time each year based on the link the day more than whether. Those being gadwalls, teal, redheads.

Back in 96 and 97 I could show that a strong southern dipping Arctic front would bring huge numbers of mallards to our area. What I show now is a strong dipping Arctic front takes our local birds and pushes them to the coast.

What I have seen the last 6 to 7 years is that a strong front blows pur birds out and our best hunts are generally 2 to 3 days after the cold front with a strong Southwind where we get coastal birds coming up.

So the widgeons, gadwalls, and redheads will keep migrating south? Because we never shoot mallard down in Glen Rose till late late season. Even then though we still shoot like 3.