Cap, since we're talking duck hunting....

[Big Muddy]

Just finished flooding up my three duck holes....planted in Jap millet and milo....even saw a few resident greenheads paddling around, this morning.
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[BarryBobPosthole]

Man, that looks dang good.

Where are the ducks?

BKB

[Captain]

Just got to the impoundment. Lots of pintails, a few greens plenty of teal...
Hopefully the morning will be kind to us.
Good luck to Y'all too!

[Big Muddy]

They'll start migrating down here in the next week or so....there's a small artic blast, coming outta Canada this week, which will push a few our way, but the real push will come the end of Nov. and first of Dec.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Sounds like its gonna be a pretty cold front too from what they're saying. Low 20's for us and a mixture next weekend. Do you have some blinds built or do you just make portable ones? Back when we hunted some flooded field drains that were real open like some of that, we'd just lay flat on our back with a camo net over us and then raise up and shoot. Was some of the best fun I've ever had.

BKB

[Captain]

We have 113 acres of land we plant corn on and flood after some is harvested. We have permeant blinds we brush in. Some are sunken and some are above ground. Would love to have you out shoot sometime.

[Big Muddy]

This is what I'm looking forward to !!!!!

Phole, we use blinds, pits, and sometimes we hunt like you're talking about....we just lay out in the edges of the grassy levees, and toss camo netting over us....just depends on how the ducks are acting on any particular day.

Zoom in on the top photo....sky is thick with ducks.



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[BarryBobPosthole]

LOL look at the craw on that mallard. They're fattened up!

BKB

[LJ3]

That kid ain't fuckin' around! Some serious bidness!

[Arty]

Only been duck hunting twice. But had a blast. Looks like a nice set up there mudster.

[Thumper]

My idea of "duck hunting" is hunting for the best Chinese restaurant in town! ;)

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[BarryBobPosthole]

I'd sooner eat the odor eater out of a pair of old tennis shoes.

BKB

[Thumper]

I don't generally care for duck ... but you haven't lived until you've had "properly" prepared Peking Duck!

[Big Skyz]

The only way I will shoot those feathered flying livers, is if someone agrees beforehand, to take them. I absolutely cannot stomach ducks or geese. The only time I tasted waterfowl that was remotely edible was when Bwana shared some smoked goose with me. That wasn't too bad.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Somebody on Goodhunting, Cliffie I think, once suggested making jerky out of strips of duck breasts. I used a cure and it was actually pretty dang good. It did kind of have a braunschweiger type taste but it was pretty dang good.

BKB

[Big Skyz]

Considering nearly all ducks sit on sewer ponds from Alaska to Mexico they should have tasted more like braunschitwiger. ;)

[quercus alba]

sewer or not duck is some is some mighty fine eating. Yawl are a bunch of culinary snobs. If you knew what all was allowed in your hamburger and hotdogs............

[Big Muddy]

Only one way to eat a duck....gumbo, cooked in a deep dark roux, with a bunch of other sheeit mixed with it, to mask the duck taste....preferably cooked in a huge 30 gallon black pot, by a nose-picking, butt-scratching, tobacco-chewing, toothless, one-eyed coonass Cajun....dang good stuff, too !!!

It helps to consume copious amounts of beer and/or liquor, before hand, too. ;)

Here's a big pot of it. ;)


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[BarryBobPosthole]

Yep, and I don't imagine those guys are wearing hairnets either.

BKB

[Captain]

Eddie I've got one of those pots. It's cast iron 250 or 300 gallon pot. Very old and neat.

[Thumper]

Eddie I've got one of those pots. It's cast iron 250 or 300 gallon pot. Very old and neat.

Do you make Cheryl cook with it? :D

[Arty]

We coulda used that last weekend!