Ask Don Miller...or other scatters hunters

[ducman77]

[Double R 2]

At some point in history, the blueline map depicting the Scatters at the Leflore County Courthouse had drawing of a Donald Duck-type character shouldering a confederate flag, as I remember. Anyone know how I can get a scanned copy of the image if not an original? How about it Novacaine?

[quack_a_tack]

This is real interesting stuff being from the area and hunting the scatters a hand full of times. I never knew it and Greenwood where that chalked full of duck history. Keep it up I love history.

[Money]

[Don Miller]

[SWAG]

Going to get a picture of the competition jacket like these guys wore back in the day. My wife is going to scan some of the other stuff. There is a program from the World Duck Calling Championship among the stuff.

[SWAG]

[Don Miller]

[Deltamud77]

This is quickly turning into one of the all-time greatest threads on this site...really quickly as a matter of fact. Duck hunting history and the men who formed the foundation for what we now enjoy is extremely fascinating to me. There seemed to be an element of class and decorum with duck hunting back then that is not seen in a majority of today's "duck" hunters.

I know things change and time changes everything, but today's world of gadgets, shotshows, hunting shows driven by sponsorship plugs, etc., has taken away from what duck hunting is to me on a base level; enjoying and interacting with God's creation amongst friends on cold mornings while sharing stories from years past and making stories for years to come.

[novacaine]

Mark- i can scan and post the articles.
Deltamud77- do you want to sell the Dominic Serio?
Ramsey-I haven't seen the duck with the flag but i will check with some people in the mapping department and let you know.

For me it has been fun trying to investigate and research this old stuff. There is a ton of duck hunting history all around the delta and i am afraid that if we don't track it down and try to archive it now it will be lost forever. I look forward to reading these articles and others. If ya'll have any of this old stuff(old hunting clubs,hard core back in the day hunters,photos, duck call and gadget makers) please post for everyone else to enjoy. Maybe we can sticky a "nostalgia" forum. My $0.02.

[Deltamud77]

Ducman77 has the Dominic. I second a mechanism for nostalgia threads like this and the "trophy room" thread from the waterfowling forum.

[novacaine]

[Po Monkey Lounger]

With regard to the question of whether the Tippo Bayou ever ran straight through the Scatters into the Yalobusha River, the answer is yes it did. The old topo and other maps that I have located in my research of the area over the years show the connection. As Don Miller pointed out, the channel of the Tippo Bayou has silted in over the years ----so much so that some places where this waterway used to flow are now dry, farmland.

[ducman77]

Bill, I am going to keep it since it was handed down to my by a family member...

[crackhead]