There a bunch of Quacks They need to have a seperate season away from deer season
To many mornings and evenings they blast away at pretty much whatever flies their way. Do you think they ever go/say I passed that one up for its to young or I am going to cull that one out because if bad genetics. Nooh they just sit there and blast away and spook the deer!

Shoot make their season February through summer, water and weather will be warmer for them and their dogs

If duck hunters are spooking ur deer, maybe you shouldn’t get out of the duck blind and hunt over a deer feeder in the pasture

Seriously, every time I hunt I hear them blasting away 10-15 minutes before legal time. Fortunately I think the deer on my place just don’t care. Nor do they seem to care about dogs barking, donkeys beying, tractors humming or many of the other myriad noises I hear almost every time I hunt

That's my only gripe also, shooting early and late. Most of the Duck hunters I am friends with are pretty selective about the Ducks they take.....

I guess some duck club dug a new pond near my place. I've been there 20 years and this was the first year i heard sky blasting going on. Then, for the next 10 minutes, we got to listen to them finishing off cripples.

Those dang Duck hunters obviously spooked a bunch of young bucks off their property on to where I am at
Those youngsters ran off all of my high class girls

I do both and unless they are sitting on your property, duck hunting has very little to do with bothering deer. Stub, you are just upset that the shots wake you from your slumber. My son and I were duck hunting and had just shot when this swam through my decoys 5 minutes after a shot. At one point he walked 5 yards from the boat belly deep in water.

I like duck and deer season overlapping. It keeps the deer hunters that also duck hunt after they tag out off public lakes for a while.

lol - impressive you can tell the difference between sky blasting and finishing cripples at a distance. Your mojo is strong....

The guys south of me are big duck hunters, listen to them almost every time I'm out. It affects my hunting zero.....

Hey if you need an excuse as to why you couldn't get it done this year. We will gladly carry the load.

Just a guess, really, and they didn't bother us much. My guess is based on the initial volley of fire, then about 10 minutes of silence, then sporadic single shots.

You Duck Hunters are almost as bad as the Bass Fishermen that were fishing the pond next door to me.
They were using a Buzz Bait that was so loud it spooked two trophy bucks off my plot right in front of me

These two sought refuge from the war zone and actually landed in my food plot this morning. What kind of ducks are they?

BTW before anyone gets their panties all wadded up, I am just having fun with this post. I really have no problem with Duck Hunters when they are Not Hunting

Bass eat better than ducks though.

Mallards

Spot we duck hunt in Oklahoma we have deer come through right after we've shot, we've actually been amazed about how little they paid attention to us. I'm talking just a few minutes after we've shot so they were close by and walking through like they didn't have a care in the world, has happened a couple times.

I hear quail and duck hunters all the time. The deer on are place pay no mind. I had someone on a neighboring property doing some target shooting (100 rounds or so) and the deer still showed up.

I bet a lot of it depends upon many factors. Small acreage versus big, how close are the hunters duck & deer, when do these areas start getting pressure etc.

Common sense would rationalize with bigger tracts of land and hunters further away the impact is probably nill versus a lot of hunters on small acreage real close. In my scenario the lots are small and there are a 3 deer hunters on the 160 acres where I am at, I am on the east 80. To the west of those two on 40 acres there can be one or two deer and duck hunters and on the 80 acres west of them are serious duck hunters that have way to much fun, surprising how loud those I guess 3 1/2" magnum shells are?

It has spooked deer off where I am at while hunting.

Like I said earlier, just razzing the Quack Hunters

Lol, it’s a mallard hen. No worries here Stub. I have always hunted both.

Trust me, I wish the season ran from December to the end of February too.

Feel the same way about dove hunters during archery season.

Not gonna happen. Waterfowl seasons are dictated by the FEDs. Besides, you have no more right to hunt on any given day than the duck hunters do. They also bought a license didn't they? I've shot a number of deer when duck hunters were shooting near by. Didn't seem to bother the deer near as much as my bullet from my 9.3x62 mauser did when it hit them.

Just sayin.

I hear ya, as I mentioned before just giving them a hard time.
I have zero problem with anyone hunting legally and ethically!
May not agree with everything but it is what it is.
Now go kill Daffy