DuckSouth.com

'Y'all ever wonder about folks that shoot.........and shoot.......and shoot............to the point where you think they oughta be getting close to the bottom of the box and have to go home, soon?

Wouldn't that tell you they don't have a clue how to go-about killin' a duck?

That seems like the ultimate humiliation to me......

I mean, doesn't everybody know you have to lead a hooded merganzer a good 15 feet @ 75 yards to even come close?

Yeah, I paddled a mile in on some boys one day. Just knew they had a dump truck load of birds because they shot before and during my paddle in to them.

Got there and it was 7 of them with about 6 limits. I watched them shoot for a while before I made my presence known and it was then that I realized why they shot so much. 3 ducks fly by and 7 guns went off multiple times. But to their credit, they passed on every pintail that came by (back when pintail season was closed.)

Well, I do not shoot at a lot of birds that most people would shoot at. I just do not feel confortable taking long shots. Wingman, it sounds like those guys were having a GREAT time. When you get around a bunch of friends sometimes you tend to take longer shots and there is ALWAYS one guy in the bunch that just cannot wait for them to get close.

Was that about 3-4 years ago just off the Tallahatchie River above 32 HWY Wingman? Knew some guys that had a GW paddle in on them and they admitted that they had an awful day of shooting. Ducks galore but no shooters.

Heck, "the wall of steel" worked when our boys were fighting the Jap kamikazes - why not put up a "black cloud" for the hoodies with a tailwind?

I can't afford to take long shots or shoot cripples anymore.

it's happened to me more than once dove shooting. I get in a slump and a box later I'm wondering why I'm out here sweating and missing birds. At least lead is cheaper than steel.

Shoot I hit em better at passing shots. I can't hit a duck with it's landing gear down for the life of me.. Something about having to shoot below them that just get's me everytime. Guess all that skeet and dove shooting I did growing up does not help on ducks..

Blackduck wrote:it's happened to me more than once dove shooting. I get in a slump and a box later I'm wondering why I'm out here sweating and missing birds. At least lead is cheaper than steel.

I ain't skeerd to sling so lead at a dove that is a ways out. Seeing as it's a third the price of cheap steel.
The way the weather is looking, doves might be a better be when the 3rd season opens.

wingman, by chance did you flip your canoe

Hunted the first few weekends without my glasses on, barely wear them anymore. Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, seriously. Put them on and waxed booty.

Well aight maybe they can't shot, have seen and hunted with several people that burnt up a box of shells with not near a feather touched.

Naw, not until you and Ann are laughing loud enough for them to hear!

wingman, by chance did you flip your canoe

No. I'm as nimble as a fat, jungle cat in that pirogue.

we all get a little frustrated and desparate. but you just gotta wait. it seems like 9/10 time the long shot leaves a bird flying away with shot all in it. i take long shots all the time, but you just have to do your best to resist, especially on quality ducks that are far away. not to mention often times i won't fire a shot, then come back the next day and improve my position on the uneducated ducks.

(I saw this on another board and could not resist, because its true)

Of course there is the other end of the spectrum.

Shootaphobia

That’s the one where a hunter passes on multiple reasonable shots due to an insane belief that if he doesn’t shoot, the birds will try to land right in front of him.

Symptoms usually take the form of shouts……

“Why did you shoot at that bird?”
or
“Why didn’t we shoot on that pass?”

A hunter with full blown shootaphobia never seems to be happy with the situation. In his head there is always a reason not to shoot, and then remorse at not having shot.

We have decided on an acronym for Full Blown Shootaphobia….. “Full BS”.

Those with "Full BS" always think everyone else is a skybuster. It’s so sad.

A guy with "Full BS" can hunt with various groups of other hunters and the story is always the same......... "Why didn't you wait?"

Even when the others kill the birds.... "Why didn't you wait?"

Even when the guy kills a bird himself....."We should have waited, we could have got more".

“Full Blown Shootaphobia” can get worse. In many cases the afflicted will insist that no one can have any shells but him.

Even at that, he insists that the others leave their unloaded guns on safe and cover their eyes and ears.

And the dog better not whine when the birds fly away without being shot at, never to return….”Bad dog, no biscuit”.

These cases are the “Extreme” phase. “Extreme Full Blown Shootaphobia”

We just call it “Extremely Full BS”.