I bought my DC call 20 years ago and still am using it today. Anyone notice how many NEW duck hunters there are this season? Probably due to Duck Dynasty I assume.

I don't mind, we are mentoring 3 newbies this year in our group. With little water in NTX and heavy public pressure, I just hope someone is teaching these new recruits the ART of duck hunting.

Shares some stories of how you are mentoring some newbies and preventing the creation of more uninformed Barney's.

I tell all the newbs I meet to hunt Ray Bob.

FYI, they don't duck hunt on Duck Dynasty, ok a couple shots here and there, but god knows I do love the show !! More people here and with the drought less water to hunt.....

Kinda like this forum

Wood Duck as a newbie myself and not due to duck dynasty but a lifelong dream to hunt ducks from the time I was 8 years old. I would like to say thank you for your attitude of mentoring. Most of the guys I have seen out where I hunt are more than willing to help the new guy out and do some mentoring. I have had a number of them ask me to come over and hunt with them and when I do I let them take the lead and do the calling and I shoot when they say to.

However I have seen more than one out there that act as if I don’t have the right to duck hunt or be on public land. And I think I can see where they are coming from on that I have seen some guys out there trashing up public land and sky busting at anything as soon as they see it in the sky. All I am asking is if I am doing it wrong tell me and then show me the right way to do it.

I will pass a law to ban duckcalls on public and only shoot 2 3/4 nr 4 loads and no choke thighter than ic.
Problem solved.

I don't blame DD for the increase...I think it is more related to how uncool and expensive deer hunting has gotten.

Drove up on some guys the other morning. Asked them if they were duck hunting. They said yes, and they had another group coming so they "got the dam side of the lake pretty much covered". Full camo, but none had on waders. I wished them luck and rode on out.

People would much rather shoot wild flying ducks than pet deer under a feeder.

Nice post. I am new to duck hunting also. But I am not new to hunting been dove hunting my whole life. I moved to an area, that has a friend close by that ducks hunts. I enjoy being in the outdoors. I pick my shells up plus other peoples. I was raised to pick shells up don't matter if they are mine or someone else's. The guys I hunt with might not be the best callers. But we try to do our best. I fell like a lot of y'all bash new people to duck hunt. Everyone has to start somewhere, they might not be new to hunting, they just might be new duck hunting. Just try and help with out with a good attitude and a non rude voice. Not everyone is a professional hunter like some off y'all think y'all are.

Let the bashing begin!

I pick shells up as long as they are steel hulls. Not only to preserve the natural state of the land, but also to keep people from knowing that the area has something to shoot at. Boom scouters are aplenty

You are joking, right?

I was duck hunting when duck hunting wasn't cool... Hehehe... I came aboard before DD.

p.s. I love watching DD

I started duck hunting because of duck dynasty!

Nope. Think about it. Not trying to bash deer hunters, but it's cheaper to walk in duck hunt than deer hunt in Texas. Then, you don't have to worry about if it was a high fence deer, known pedigree, killed under a feeder, etc, etc.

Duck Dynasty is changing the world!

I don't see why everybody doesn't like the show... Where else do you find a show that has good morals like they do? What shows do they pray on every single episode? If you complain about setting up next to some rookies that don't know what there doing that's your fault because you didn't put in the time scouting and didn't go off the beaten path to find a spot where others don't want to go. As for the show bringing more hunters, why do you care? It brings more money to the waterfowl industry, and for the conservation of waterfowl. Why don't some of y'all "real hunters" actually try to help the ones that don't know anything by taking them hunting or giving advice instead of complaining on the forum?

I'll support your bill provided we add an amendment to no more than 15 shells in your position.

Ok I understand not watching the show because you not like reality tv.
I never said you shouldn't set up on birds because someone else might be there, but if you do set up on easy birds expect someone else to be there instead of coming and whining on the forum.

I don't want people trashing the land either but that's not all to blame on a show. Did know one ever do things like that until the show started? I doubt it....

Yeah you can't help the ones that think they know it all but alot of the "experienced hunters are just as bad as rookies. They think they know it all and it's their way or no way. I don't think that has anything to do with the show. Some of these "know it all" hunters are the same ones who sit around and complain about how duck dynasty is ruining the sport but they do the same things the rookie hunters do.

Although some of us may not like the new hunters and some may blame DD for this but you have to think what all the new people hunting are doing for the wetlands and conservation. Without people hunting we wouldn't have the hunting we have due to the money that is spent on conservation each year.

I like to pet ducks under a feeder..... groups them up better for skillet shots

Sounds like Ark.

I found city parks are a great place to get skillet shots. The park in Brownsfield has always been real productive.