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SKYBUSTERS!!!! #5488971 12/20/14 02:47 PM
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I just need to get this rant off my chest. Today must not have been opening day for the second split instead I think sky buster season opened up today. Right as legal rolled around it sounded like world war three for at least 15 min. You can go ahead and argue that they were at the X but there are not anywhere near enough ducks around for the amount of shooting there was. As I type this from my blind I watch four guys burn all three on one duck at least 65 yards up. My only guess as to why they shoot this way is because they're afraid those dastardly ducks are going to steal their $20 flambeau decoys. End of rant.

Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: SharpShooter18] #5488999 12/20/14 03:04 PM
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We need to impose a 15 shell limit on WMA.


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sucks when someone else is in the right spot huh...

Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: SharpShooter18] #5489054 12/20/14 03:29 PM
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"Because (I/we) sometimes drop one" is the main excuse I've heard used by people who insist on shooting outside of 40 yards. I guess "because you always educate a few" and "you often cripple or kill birds unknowingly" is not good enough to keep people from taking the hail marys.

Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: Hopedale] #5489190 12/20/14 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted By: Hopedale
We need to impose a 15 shell limit on WMA.


This

Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: SharpShooter18] #5489191 12/20/14 04:57 PM
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I would limit to 15 shells and run every newcomer out of hunting since I NEVER miss......

Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: Hopedale] #5489224 12/20/14 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted By: Hopedale
We need to impose a 15 shell limit on WMA.


Yepp.

Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: SharpShooter18] #5489229 12/20/14 05:24 PM
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15 shells sounds like a good idea right after the wardens can effectively enforce shooting early, shooting late, illegal vehicles, no plugs, hunting proper zones, bag limits, carrying proper permits, and anything else you can think of.

soap

Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: Esh and Hattie] #5489243 12/20/14 05:41 PM
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Is there anything more useless than complaining on the internet?

Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: SharpShooter18] #5489248 12/20/14 05:45 PM
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Yea flambeaus are for losers and poor people!!! Nobody's ever killed a duck over a flambeau

Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: Limit Extender] #5489348 12/20/14 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted By: Limit Extender
Is there anything more useless than complaining on the internet?
BOOM!

Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: SharpShooter18] #5489430 12/20/14 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted By: SharpShooter18
I just need to get this rant off my chest. Today must not have been opening day for the second split instead I think sky buster season opened up today. Right as legal rolled around it sounded like world war three for at least 15 min. You can go ahead and argue that they were at the X but there are not anywhere near enough ducks around for the amount of shooting there was. As I type this from my blind I watch four guys burn all three on one duck at least 65 yards up. My only guess as to why they shoot this way is because they're afraid those dastardly ducks are going to steal their $20 flambeau decoys. End of rant.


Well, while you were busy typing we were skyblasting these fellas over Hot Buys with 2 3/4" superX's.

Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: Ben Lilly] #5489456 12/20/14 08:27 PM
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Nice. up

Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: Limit Extender] #5489487 12/20/14 09:05 PM
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Is there anything more useless than complaining on the internet?


Other than people that can't tell time or judge distance?


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Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: SharpShooter18] #5489709 12/20/14 11:29 PM
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Can't kill them if you ain't shooting, plus makes them better trophies for the experts !

Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: Hopedale] #5489746 12/20/14 11:48 PM
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Originally Posted By: Hopedale
We need to impose a 15 shell limit on WMA.

Yep!


Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: SharpShooter18] #5489818 12/21/14 12:27 AM
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15 shells? My Dad would say Here you go boy 6 shells 6 ducks make them count. Teaches you real fast to wait till those feet are down.

Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: outfitter1] #5489826 12/21/14 12:32 AM
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Originally Posted By: outfitter1
15 shells? My Dad would say Here you go boy 6 shells 6 ducks make them count. Teaches you real fast to wait till those feet are down.


Or paddling for some bolt

Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: SharpShooter18] #5489936 12/21/14 01:35 AM
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Who cares


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Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: Jeff Elder] #5490091 12/21/14 03:25 AM
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Who cares


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Spray and pray

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Sounds like someone needs to learn how to SKYBUST, lol. Hope it made you feel better.

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Originally Posted By: SR025
Spray and pray


Dang skybusters, early shooters, and people that say Spray and pray!!

Thank You,
Jim Spray

Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: dgilbert] #5492178 12/22/14 08:08 AM
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Originally Posted By: dgilbert
Sounds like someone needs to learn how to SKYBUST, lol. Hope it made you feel better.


I've been watching a lot of the so-called professionals on youtube channels and even with camera angles and whatever I see them dropping ducks out pretty far away most times. They're all using PM chokes and slaying greenheads at what I estimate as 40+ yards consistently. Heck, there's one group of guys on youtube that I swear they've never even finished a group of mallards and yet they still drop them like rain on the first or second pass.

Makes me wonder if I'm holding back too much. Last hunt of the 1st split Hopedale had to pretty much kick me out of my seat on a wigeon that I thought was too far away... He kept saying "Shoot it, shoot it" and I was sitting there saying "No, it's too far"! I ended up caving in to the peer pressure and dropping that bird on the third shot. I was being too cautious and almost missed out on a great looking bird.

Moral of the story: I'm going to be a skybuster next time I hunt.


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Re: SKYBUSTERS!!!! [Re: _Scooter_] #5492232 12/22/14 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted By: dgilbert
Sounds like someone needs to learn how to SKYBUST, lol. Hope it made you feel better.


I've been watching a lot of the so-called professionals on youtube channels and even with camera angles and whatever I see them dropping ducks out pretty far away most times. They're all using PM chokes and slaying greenheads at what I estimate as 40+ yards consistently. Heck, there's one group of guys on youtube that I swear they've never even finished a group of mallards and yet they still drop them like rain on the first or second pass.

Makes me wonder if I'm holding back too much. Last hunt of the 1st split Hopedale had to pretty much kick me out of my seat on a wigeon that I thought was too far away... He kept saying "Shoot it, shoot it" and I was sitting there saying "No, it's too far"! I ended up caving in to the peer pressure and dropping that bird on the third shot. I was being too cautious and almost missed out on a great looking bird.

Moral of the story: I'm going to be a skybuster next time I hunt.


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