Well perhaps you are correct, as I said I dont know, but I always thought it was drought that hurt the ducks, not DDT.

I just went with what ya had if ya want sumthin else I can prolly do that.

Torch I thought the egg shells were softened causing almost total nest mortality and it was picked up eating fish and animals from the farming regions of the country, is that not right?

Rip I think 30/3 and a lot of water is the fastest way back to "the good ole days" but with ducks and regional ...

I am not aware of any correlation between DDT and egg failure in waterfowl and if that is true I would like to see some official documentation of it.

I was under the impression El Nino conditions and arid nesting areas were responsible for that.

I thought DDT only effected carnivores or ...

It was a good post and I enjoy reading creative solutions to just about anything. Unfortunately this solution is designed to let you get at them ducks!
HE HE HE HE HE

There aint enough refuge for all the ducks we have, and you dont need to shoot the ones that are using them.

We need to let ...

OK is a stretch chop but I said that based on two things.
They aint here
They is a crapload in OK and they has been for several years now.

The point really is -- they aint HERE

and no matter WHERE they are, the migration HAS changed.

I think you guys who insisit it hasn't look at things ...

I had some guy look at it he said it was a dinasour I can remember which one.

I confess I do not remember that and do not remember what I was talking about.

Check this one out Doc, found it on the Mighty, also found the snoot of a three toed horse and a few other real old bones. You only find this stuff when the Mighty is at it's very lowest in summer, in the rock piles that come out then.

http://myweb.cableone.net/kingorbit/rocks/bone ...

It kind of disturbs me seeing men complain that we have too many refuges for the ducks, therefore they can't shoot any.

Plain and simple, here is why that is a farce.

In the point system days, we had just over half the ducks we have today.

And the delta was covered up with ducks.

So the ...

Thankx You two, I have actually been told I can write, so much, that I decided to try and learn to do it "officially"

Larry Reynolds emailed me and told me that the "no ducks" piece was being widely circulated among the professional field of duckery and was started by a professor in Canada. He ...

Any Rockers Up In This Place?

Doc, I can gaurantee you ONE G'damn thing, unlike WAY TOO MANY people on these forums, the last thing on God's green EARTH that you are gonna see ME post is where I am hunting, where TO hunt, where I USED to hunt, where I MIGHT hunt, or where I WONT hunt.......

Half the damn problem out there ...

Not when they are thin I dont, and he is right about THIS year. I listened to Larry Reynolds on that, he says it doesn't have the impact we think it does, and I trust that man's opinion about any and everything ducks.

It's a "fashion" statement, and when I want gumbo it's to HELL with fashion.