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Re: Ask Don Miller...or other scatters hunters

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 2:29 pm
by swamprooter
Crackhead's cousin.............Big Un' he's called at Burkes Hunting Club.... let me listen to a DVD that was a recording of the "first" duck calling contest in Mississippi that was held in Clarksdale? the announcer was hilarious. I was surprised that some of those guys could roll a feed.......neat listen.......these guys were on there calling

Re: Ask Don Miller...or other scatters hunters

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:30 pm
by paraduck
Thought I would bring this back to surface. Didnt know if ya'll had anymore to add to this post yet? Im enjoying reading about the history and hunting stories.

Re: Ask Don Miller...or other scatters hunters

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:50 pm
by crackhead
That's actuly going to be one of my blogs on bayoublind.com. I'm going to load the audio and pictures from it I finally got this season.

Re: Ask Don Miller...or other scatters hunters

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 2:34 pm
by Deltamud77
Bump for awesomeness and off-season reading.

Re: Ask Don Miller...or other scatters hunters

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 9:16 am
by Don Miller
Novacaine,
Did anyone ever follow up with Son Jordan about the old 8mm footage of the Scatters hunts from the 1950's? I thought about this the other day. I'm not sure that the 8mm film would even be in working condition now if they had been kept in his attic for all those years but I'd give anything to see them and let Mr. Son give a play by play. I even mentioned their possible existence to Tate Wood last year and he seemed exited to know that this old footage of a Scatters duck hunt may exist but as far as I know he never followed up on it. I or someone else, REALLY NEEDS to follow up on this. Mr. Son is no spring chicken and time is slowly running out to even possibly have the opportunity to view this footage.

Re: Ask Don Miller...or other scatters hunters

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 9:22 am
by RiverDuck

Re: Ask Don Miller...or other scatters hunters

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:36 pm
by teul2
Give me details on this Riverduck.Pm is fine.

Re: Ask Don Miller...or other scatters hunters

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 3:56 pm
by novacaine

Re: Ask Don Miller...or other scatters hunters

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 7:59 pm
by rebelduckaholic
I've been gone from clarksdale a while and have not been around that crowd in a good while.

When you said big un. That brought back a few memories of some good times. That guy is fun to be around. It's been at least 10 years since I've even seen one of his sons. Crazy drunken times

Re: Ask Don Miller...or other scatters hunters

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 3:50 am
by Don Miller

Re: Ask Don Miller...or other scatters hunters

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 7:33 am
by novacaine
Mr Son is currently occupied with caring for his wife that is suffering back problems and told me to give him two weeks and try again.

Re: Ask Don Miller...or other scatters hunters

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 3:25 pm
by rebelduckaholic

Re: Ask Don Miller...or other scatters hunters

Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 8:31 am
by Deltamud77
Bump a great thread since the month starting duck season is upon us...

Re: Ask Don Miller...or other scatters hunters

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 1:19 pm
by Deltamud77
Bumping it again...my favorite thread on this site. Enjoy.

Re: Ask Don Miller...or other scatters hunters

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 7:35 pm
by rebelduckaholic
I always knew my dad hunted the scatters some growing up. I knew he had jordan calls and what not. He would tell me a little about it because he knew that one or two times a year I would go that way and hunt public. Well a few years back he gave me some stuff at Christmas. I got to going through it and there were tons of duck stamps signed from people that lived in that area. Turns out that my grandad either ran or owned some type of equipment store that sold duck stamps. Back then apparently when people got their new stamps they just threw these on the counter to dispose of. I took a bunch of the stamps and other older duck hunting stuff and bought a table to protect these older stamps.

Fast forward to reading this thread and I decided to go look at who all names I recognized. I saw several that were CM Jordan duck stamps from late 60's early 70's. Also found Frankie Tominello and Johnny Barrett duck stamps. Since I didn't live there I have to see the names to even know how to make out some of these signatures

Also mentioned in this article was the JT Beckhart calls. Well he gave me several calls that same Christmas. I got to looking the calls up and started researching them and low and behold was a four panel checkered Beckhart Call. He had no clue what he had. Well with having small children and not wanting to be responsible that call got out of my house rather quickly