The "Black Cloud" post got me to figuring

[novacaine]

Swamprooter- that buddy of yours that runs Kearney Park wouldn't happen to be a 45 year old crazy a@@ short fella from Indianola would it?????? I roomed with him at MSU long ago!!!Heard he was still alive but thought it was just a rumor

[BR549]

Speed Record - The fastest duck ever recorded was a red-breasted merganser that attained a top airspeed of 100 mph while being pursued by an airplane. This eclipsed the previous speed record held by a canvasback clocked at 72 mph. Blue-winged and green-winged teal, thought by many hunters to be the fastest ducks, are actually among the slowest, having a typically flight speed of only 30 mph.[/quote] who knew[/quote]

According to the Audubon Society Mallards can fly at a rate up to 120 mph! While their normal flight range varies from 25 to 60 with their strong wings they can really move over long distances depending on wind and weather conditions. I have personally seen mallards coming down so fast they were having to do flips to loose airspeed. Now I personally don't have a way to clock them at speed but I can assure you they can move when they really want to and that seems to be backed up by several different athorities and biological data! They have been tracked by satilite traveling up to 120 miles in an hour! If they can travel that far there is no telling how fast they can actually dive!

[adame]

Speed Record - The fastest duck ever recorded was a red-breasted merganser that attained a top airspeed of 100 mph while being pursued by an airplane. This eclipsed the previous speed record held by a canvasback clocked at 72 mph. Blue-winged and green-winged teal, thought by many hunters to be the fastest ducks, are actually among the slowest, having a typically flight speed of only 30 mph.

who knew[/quote]

According to the Audubon Society Mallards can fly at a rate up to 120 mph! While their normal flight range varies from 25 to 60 with their strong wings they can really move over long distances depending on wind and weather conditions. I have personally seen mallards coming down so fast they were having to do flips to loose airspeed. Now I personally don't have a way to clock them at speed but I can assure you they can move when they really want to and that seems to be backed up by several different athorities and biological data! They have been tracked by satilite traveling up to 120 miles in an hour! If they can travel that far there is no telling how fast they can actually dive![/quote
thats some good speed either way

[GordonGekko]

My buddy runs Kearney Park.....we ought to have a MSDucks ( Micah approved of coarse) Clay shoot/ Dog event and set up the 40 yard Smokin mallard and some other fun shots totally related to duck hunting. I could get him to set up hald dozen or so sizzlers.....money raised goes to charity or to HoeHandle for a private lease.!

haha...sounds like a great idea! MSDuckers have a pretty strong record up there at some of the charity shoots, Shoot for Scouts and the JA shoot....most of us love to bust clays when the season is out.....

Gulfcoast, I don't think anyone was slighted...if I've learned anything from this place I've learned that there are some GOOD shots on this board....and, i guess "scientifically" the lead is the same, but a shooter would swear up and down they were different....

[jwz4]

lettem land

I second this one

[swamprooter]

Novacaine ......thats him!....he will be 47 may 1st and single ..we were/are best friends growing up in Nola. he went to State to ring a cowbell and went to Oxpatch to jiggle a gin and tonic! Boyer the Destroyer is still crazy and probably can't fit in a pair of waders now.....

[GulfCoast]

Chuck Boyer? I have had some hoots with that guy! Even deposed him once in a case involving "the petrolium company."

[h2o_dog]

Glad to know Chuck still has my "envy"....

[swamprooter]

Boyer is my brother.!....his dad always took me hunting.( mine didn't hunt)... when i started the Old School Post i had Charles Edward in mind. He's cut from the cloth all the way. Mostly everything I know about duck hunting i learned from Mr. Boyer, his dad, sitting in his floating blind in Benson Brake in 70's.....We lost him 4 years ago to lung cancer.....Chee-Boy is a legend.....he is defintely one of the funniest guys on earth...He can flat blow the ass end out of his mallardtone with green plastic wedge. Boyer and I were inseparable growing up. He is as fine a wing shot as one will see.

[novacaine]

Boyer is my brother.!....his dad always took me hunting.( mine didn't hunt)... when i started the Old School Post i had Charles Edward in mind. He's cut from the cloth all the way. Mostly everything I know about duck hunting i learned from Mr. Boyer, his dad, sitting in his floating blind in Benson Brake in 70's.....We lost him 4 years ago to lung cancer.....Chee-Boy is a legend.....he is defintely one of the funniest guys on earth...He can flat blow the !@# end out of his mallardtone with green plastic wedge. Boyer and I were inseparable growing up. He is as fine a wing shot as one will see.

Roomed with Chuck at Mayhew junction with another guy from Gwood. He started dating now divorced wife there. Our next door neighbors were some Clarksdale boys(R.Weatherall,Ross Fiser,& i think J.Walker).
Things always got loud on weekends,especially when Frog R. and G.Sykes came by.Redeye was in the mix also,I think-it is all a blur now.
Back then,you couldn't roll us all up together and make a good booger!

[mfox1616]

I have no idea.... we never see any mallards. I can tell that on a hollywood it would be 2 and 3/4 birds length.

[Anatidae]

By the way, if Dan Moulder (MSDuckmen); Randy Dennis (Anatadae); David Melton (DeltaDuck) or Bankermane (Chan) say they can go clean on ducks at 40 yards, I would not quibble with ANY of those guys.

I'm flattered, but I have fallen way-off on my shooting ability..........especially after this post came-up.........I shoulda come clean from the start. Instead, I played along with the ruse........then, went-out Saturdy morning (with 2 witnesses) and the first bunch o' fatheads into the spread (all inside 25 yds) was unscathed by any of the 3 shots I wasted on it. Anne got 2, Fred got one.........and Randy was gonna clean-up what was left..........had a slow riser from a foot off the water 15 yds out, climbing striaght over the boat at a mere 20 feet and I never blotted the target out....shot behind it the whole way.

After that, I couldn't even kill a cripple on the water at 20 yds. Hell, I couldn't see my front bead.....thought I was going blind. Then I discovered (about half-way through the hunt) that it wasn't there. I think it's somewhere over in Sunflower County in Timberjack's duckhole. Musta come-off last Thursday - that heavy wind blew it right outa the threads, I guess. I missed a few shots on that hunt, too. So, all that crap I dished-out about bead this, bead that.......I never pay attention to the bead, blah, blah, blah........has come-back to bite me.

So, now that I've gone from having the 'big-head'......to duffing that easy 'overhead' or 'low-1'........(and several others afterwards)........then having to borrow my wife's gun after she get her 4 fatheads (and I'm stuck at '2'), I am glad I have come clean and removed the pressure of trying to live-up to the claims of may kind folks that have only seen me at my best (or never, at all). My shooting stinks.

Take me outa the 40-yd category - I'm just starting over. And, I'll have another excuse, tomorrow.

[GulfCoast]

Sandbagger!

[teul2]

My buddy runs Kearney Park.....we ought to have a MSDucks ( Micah approved of coarse) Clay shoot/ Dog event and set up the 40 yard Smokin mallard and some other fun shots totally related to duck hunting. I could get him to set up hald dozen or so sizzlers.....money raised goes to charity or to HoeHandle for a private lease.!

haha...sounds like a great idea! MSDuckers have a pretty strong record up there at some of the charity shoots, Shoot for Scouts and the JA shoot....most of us love to bust clays when the season is out.....

Gordon, Lawdawg, bluhead, and Bankermane (and the others I left out from the JA shoot) are on my team!!

[GordonGekko]

Tuel2 I like the way you think Holler at me, we got some killin' to do after the big red man comes for a visit (or maybe before).....