Comments on: The Worst Hunting Day of My Life http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/the-worst-hunting-day-of-my-life.php Duck Hunting Chat has duck hunting tips and goose hunting tips and information, articles, photos, videos and more. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:58:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ryan http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/the-worst-hunting-day-of-my-life.php/comment-page-1#comment-389 Ryan Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:54:34 +0000 http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/?p=444#comment-389 i like the great stories! i have had my fair share of bad times to.. i was hunting a small pothole early season in iowa and i had thrown out 2 dozen decoys and as shooting time came along i had birds left and right and i just couldn't figure why i couldn't get them to decoy??? as time went on i had shot one green wing teal and i saw something floating in the water when i picked my duck up i looked at my decoys on the right side of the blind and all the heads to my floaters had fallen of and were laying in the weeds next to my blind so I put them back on and had a much better successful afternoon coming out on top wit 6 green wing 1 hen mallard and 1 hen gadwall. it wasn't my worst day but it is one i will remember for a life time! i like the great stories! i have had my fair share of bad times to..
i was hunting a small pothole early season in iowa and i had thrown out 2 dozen decoys and as shooting time came along i had birds left and right and i just couldn’t figure why i couldn’t get them to decoy??? as time went on i had shot one green wing teal and i saw something floating in the water when i picked my duck up i looked at my decoys on the right side of the blind and all the heads to my floaters had fallen of and were laying in the weeds next to my blind so I put them back on and had a much better successful afternoon coming out on top wit 6 green wing 1 hen mallard and 1 hen gadwall. it wasn’t my worst day but it is one i will remember for a life time!

]]> By: ben http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/the-worst-hunting-day-of-my-life.php/comment-page-1#comment-332 ben Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:44:16 +0000 http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/?p=444#comment-332 great story..im a young boy but boy u have no clue how much i love to hunt ducks and geese its a great feeling every time i hear a goose honking or a duck . great story..im a young boy but boy u have no clue how much i love to hunt ducks and geese its a great feeling every time i hear a goose honking or a duck .

]]> By: David http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/the-worst-hunting-day-of-my-life.php/comment-page-1#comment-144 David Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:37:29 +0000 http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/?p=444#comment-144 It's like the bumper sticker says, "A bad day hunting beats a good day at work, any day!" I live in northern Minnesota, so every year, almost like clockwork, the duck sloughs freeze up during deer season. Since the state capitol is way down south in St. Paul, they have no clue that the Oct. 1st start cuts our season short by about 3 weeks. Anyway, noting the forecast, I took a day off to hunt ducks in a sleet storm with 40 mph winds right in the middle of deer season. I figured the ducks would come in close to get shelter, so set up my spread in the lee of some cattail islands. It had been blowing for two days, and as usual when that happens around here I saw some unusual species. A pair of oldsquaws landed 35 yards out, but I had no shot at that angle since the wind would have taken them across the deep part of the slough before I could have reached them. A small mixed flock of mallards and pintails (including a rare fully plumed drake sprig) landed 80 or 90 yards out and eyed my dekes, but wouldn't come any closer. Somehow they didn't seem to mind the wind and waves out there. Some divers buzzed up and down the main slough, but wouldn't commit. After 45 minutes I all but lost sensation in my legs (had to stand in near freezing water the whole time), and I had to pee so bad there was nothing else to do but slog back up into the shallows. Of course, THAT's when a pair of mallards showed up to check out my dekes. They spotted me holding the wrong gun, and took off up the slough quacking away! LOL. Not relishing the thought of standing still in that cold water any more, I decided to try to sneak up on the mallards and jump-shoot 'em (it looked like they landed about 200 yards away). During the exhausting slog a fully plumed drake bufflehead buzzed me at about 600 mph. The only three shots I took all day made little splashes behind him, and naturally, warned the pair of mallards to bail outta their hole-up location as well. All-in-all that was not my worst day, but the memory of all the lovely birds I didn't get will stick with me all the more because I didn't get to take any one of them home with me. Dave It’s like the bumper sticker says, “A bad day hunting beats a good day at work, any day!”

I live in northern Minnesota, so every year, almost like clockwork, the duck sloughs freeze up during deer season. Since the state capitol is way down south in St. Paul, they have no clue that the Oct. 1st start cuts our season short by about 3 weeks. Anyway, noting the forecast, I took a day off to hunt ducks in a sleet storm with 40 mph winds right in the middle of deer season. I figured the ducks would come in close to get shelter, so set up my spread in the lee of some cattail islands. It had been blowing for two days, and as usual when that happens around here I saw some unusual species. A pair of oldsquaws landed 35 yards out, but I had no shot at that angle since the wind would have taken them across the deep part of the slough before I could have reached them. A small mixed flock of mallards and pintails (including a rare fully plumed drake sprig) landed 80 or 90 yards out and eyed my dekes, but wouldn’t come any closer. Somehow they didn’t seem to mind the wind and waves out there. Some divers buzzed up and down the main slough, but wouldn’t commit. After 45 minutes I all but lost sensation in my legs (had to stand in near freezing water the whole time), and I had to pee so bad there was nothing else to do but slog back up into the shallows. Of course, THAT’s when a pair of mallards showed up to check out my dekes. They spotted me holding the wrong gun, and took off up the slough quacking away! LOL. Not relishing the thought of standing still in that cold water any more, I decided to try to sneak up on the mallards and jump-shoot ‘em (it looked like they landed about 200 yards away). During the exhausting slog a fully plumed drake bufflehead buzzed me at about 600 mph. The only three shots I took all day made little splashes behind him, and naturally, warned the pair of mallards to bail outta their hole-up location as well.

All-in-all that was not my worst day, but the memory of all the lovely birds I didn’t get will stick with me all the more because I didn’t get to take any one of them home with me.

Dave

]]> By: chris http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/the-worst-hunting-day-of-my-life.php/comment-page-1#comment-105 chris Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:14:20 +0000 http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/?p=444#comment-105 okay this was the worst duck season ever i live in Louisiana so we depend on the freeze up north so we didn't get many ducks but maybe next year will be better okay this was the worst duck season ever i live in Louisiana so we depend on the freeze up north so we didn’t get many ducks but maybe next year will be better

]]> By: Dustin http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/the-worst-hunting-day-of-my-life.php/comment-page-1#comment-77 Dustin Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:30:04 +0000 http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/?p=444#comment-77 LOL!! Great story, I'd love to post my recent snow goose trip, but It would take a 300 page novel! the trips that go the worst are the best for memories :) LOL!! Great story, I’d love to post my recent snow goose trip, but It would take a 300 page novel!
the trips that go the worst are the best for memories :)

]]> By: jacob http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/the-worst-hunting-day-of-my-life.php/comment-page-1#comment-60 jacob Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:21:38 +0000 http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/?p=444#comment-60 ok,that is bad worse than a bad one i had half way through duck season in oklahoma.to make a long story short-we got a duck boat in sherman,TX-we go to my aunts house in ardmore,we get up the next morning,load up,drive to lake Texoma right on time.Were on a good pace when my dad takes 30 minutes to get his waders on-okay c'mon 30 minutes?we get the boat backed up to the water, by now its starting to get light and im very pissed at my dad-to mak ethings worse it takes 15 minutes to get the boat backed up and into the water ,and THEN i start floating off with the boat and was hanging on to the bow for dear life and got my jacket wet,wait it gets worse. My dad parks the car gets in the boat and we push off into the water-now we cant get the motor started! we finally after 15 minutes of playing around with it find out we had to flip the motor down. we drive to the spot where we hunted with kurk opening week and and by now i had no hope whatsoever that we were going to even see a duck. then it takes my dad 30 minutes ogf putting brush around the boat before he finally decides that were camoflauged enough. we did have 3 birds come in-seperately that is. we did laugh about it later though. yes it was a memorable trip that i will not soon forget,especially because it was a hunt of my early waterfowling.at 12 years old. jacob1996 ok,that is bad worse than a bad one i had half way through duck season in oklahoma.to make a long story short-we got a duck boat in sherman,TX-we go to my aunts house in ardmore,we get up the next morning,load up,drive to lake Texoma right on time.Were on a good pace when my dad takes 30 minutes to get his waders on-okay c’mon 30 minutes?we get the boat backed up to the water, by now its starting to get light and im very pissed at my dad-to mak ethings worse it takes 15 minutes to get the boat backed up and into the water ,and THEN i start floating off with the boat and was hanging on to the bow for dear life and got my jacket wet,wait it gets worse.
My dad parks the car gets in the boat and we push off into the water-now we cant get the motor started!
we finally after 15 minutes of playing around with it find out we had to flip the motor down.
we drive to the spot where we hunted with kurk opening week and
and by now i had no hope whatsoever that we were going to even
see a duck.
then it takes my dad 30 minutes ogf putting brush around the boat before he finally decides that were camoflauged enough.
we did have 3 birds come in-seperately that is.
we did laugh about it later though.
yes it was a memorable trip that i will not soon forget,especially because it was a hunt of my early waterfowling.at 12 years old.

jacob1996

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