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Walked up on a wounded duck
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12/23/15 07:30 PM
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Went deer hunting this morning (saw alot of white fluffy tails heading the other way). So I figured that I would walk down and check out where the trail went. I walked down about a 1/4 mile and found my uncle's other blind. Walking back, I saw a nested duck just off the trail. It never moved. I stepped a bit closed and it still never moved. I figured that it was hurt and just hoping I would pass it by. I finally got close enough to see it more clearly. Turns out it was a G&H decoy that had evidently floated away during one of the last few floods. It was probably 1/4 mile away from the creek.
Last edited by bull279; 12/23/15 07:31 PM.
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Re: Walked up on a wounded duck
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12/23/15 07:32 PM
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G&H Gadwall. Nice find.
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Re: Walked up on a wounded duck
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12/23/15 07:43 PM
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You should put it back where you found it. This is their breeding season.
Funny thing about getting older: Your eyesight starts getting weaker but your ability to see through people's BS gets much better.
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Re: Walked up on a wounded duck
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12/23/15 08:07 PM
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Plastic birds don't taste very good. They are fun to shoot when they're not yours though.
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Re: Walked up on a wounded duck
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12/23/15 08:26 PM
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If you don't have a duck stamp you should not have picked it up.
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Re: Walked up on a wounded duck
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12/23/15 08:35 PM
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You should put it back where you found it. This is their breeding season.
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Re: Walked up on a wounded duck
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12/23/15 10:11 PM
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NORML as can be
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Re: Walked up on a wounded duck
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12/23/15 11:13 PM
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I was hunting pheasant on a preserve and shot a bird that fell into marshy area of high grass. I sent my springer in and she brought back a mallard. I sent her back in and she brought back my bird. There I am hunting with lead shot and a duck in hand. I talked to the owner who figured it had to have gone at least half mile from a local duck pond that had had some shooting on it that morning. I cleaned the duck it had one piece of about #4 steel shot in the breast. That was 20+ years ago. I've always wondered how I would have explained it to a game warden.
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Re: Walked up on a wounded duck
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12/23/15 11:37 PM
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Wonder if someone crossed your property to hunt the creek and dropped a decoy?
Don't let your ears hear what your eyes didn't see, and don't let your mouth say what your heart doesn't feel
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Re: Walked up on a wounded duck
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12/24/15 02:14 AM
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You should put it back where you found it. This is their breeding season. It's ok, they already hatched and flew away Wonder if someone crossed your property to hunt the creek and dropped a decoy? I doubt it, it's a fight to get back to the creek in that part of the property, more than likely someone upstream was duck hunting and lost/left the decoy and it got swept away in one of the floods, it just settled where I found it and the water receded. Plastic birds don't taste very good. They are fun to shoot when they're not yours though. I hear they are like Longhorn steaks, boil them with a horseshoe ans when the horseshoe is tender, throw the steak away and eat the horseshoe. If you don't have a duck stamp you should not have picked it up. I wonder if you gotta have a special stamp for that type of waterfowl. I was hunting pheasant on a preserve and shot a bird that fell into marshy area of high grass. I sent my springer in and she brought back a mallard. I sent her back in and she brought back my bird. There I am hunting with lead shot and a duck in hand. I talked to the owner who figured it had to have gone at least half mile from a local duck pond that had had some shooting on it that morning. I cleaned the duck it had one piece of about #4 steel shot in the breast. That was 20+ years ago. I've always wondered how I would have explained it to a game warden. That would be a good one to see but, bad one to live through. I believe the proper way to start that conversation is, "Sir, you are never gonna believe this..."
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Re: Walked up on a wounded duck
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12/24/15 03:16 AM
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lol
I could tell it was a decoy from the first pic. I have started a nice collection of decoys I have found.
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Re: Walked up on a wounded duck
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12/24/15 03:56 AM
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Re: Walked up on a wounded duck
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12/24/15 04:39 AM
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You should put it back where you found it. This is their breeding season. Good one!
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Re: Walked up on a wounded duck
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12/24/15 02:35 PM
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LOL, I think you just wrote G&H's next commercial.
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Re: Walked up on a wounded duck
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12/24/15 04:58 PM
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I like g&h made in America .i thought it was real from the pics
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Re: Walked up on a wounded duck
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12/24/15 07:30 PM
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I like g&h made in America .i thought it was real from the pics It looked real until I got right up on it. The tip of the bill had been worn/chewed off but other than that it was in good shape. I am going to fix the nose and put it with my other dekes.
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Re: Walked up on a wounded duck
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12/25/15 05:12 PM
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That duck dont look good
Imwould have ran to the closest vet with it
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