Seed ID in mallard craw

[H20 Fowl]

Could it be that by for some crazy reason, someone has a legit food plot in that neck of the woods? I know most hunters are evil people who do everything from not having a plug in their gun to the downright heinous felon that doesn't wear his orange in the stand, but come on?

[greenheadgrimreaper]

Could it be that by for some crazy reason, someone has a legit food plot in that neck of the woods? I know most hunters are evil people who do everything from not having a plug in their gun to the downright heinous felon that doesn't wear his orange in the stand, but come on?

I would like to think that, but it's gotten so out of control around these parts that I have no faith in the jackasses around the area who consider themselves duck hunters. I could put the law on multiple places where they could rack up on roost shooters, but they always seem to "just" miss them, and so myself and others like me have long since given up.

I know we've killed birds with a small amount of the rice in them many times before, but never like the the pic. I truly don't know if the birds are coming back from the delta to roost or if they're going to a local planted/baited hole. I haven't been back to see if anything has changed.

Rob, yall put a plane in the air then I recommend flying the Tallahaga canal floodplain all the way to the choctaw resort casinos. Just fly the upper Pearl river swamp. I'd bet you'd hit gold. If you go at dark then you ought to be able to see multiple flashes of the muzzle of roost shooters. The wma included. It amazes me how stupid so many are in their willingness to shoot up the wma to pitch black darkness. I guess, though, since they've never been caught, that it's not so stupid after all.

While we're at it, maybe somebody can check the local yocals at the wma and tear their rear ends up for treating it like it's their deer camp. Every Tom, Dick and Harry who lives within 4 wheeler distance rides in on atvs, doesn't check in or out- let alone check deer out. They ride all over- way past the "no atv" signs and dump each other out as they go and shoot whatever moves- only after they put up 20 ft. ladder stands all over the place. When they get real desperate they'll do man drives. I personally witnessed a sizeable man drive last winter on the day we buried my grandfather. Couldn't believe what I was witnessing and not a one who walked under me acknowledged my inquiry of just what in the hell were they doing.

The absence of law enforcement, at least around our parts, is to the demise of any sort of quality being had from duck or deer hunting. It truly is a poacher's paradise nowadays.

[Wingman]

I could talk to you for days about the truths in that post.

I find that wildlife law enforcement is like mowing grass when it rains every week. Just when you think you have it all cleaned up, more grass is growing where you just came from. Sometimes it's old grass regrowth, sometimes its brand new grass. But it never quits growing.

[stang67]

Start hitting the knuckleheads with roundup.

[Wingman]

I would use soil sterilant if they'd let me.

[greenheadgrimreaper]

I could talk to you for days about the truths in that post.

I find that wildlife law enforcement is like mowing grass when it rains every week. Just when you think you have it all cleaned up, more grass is growing where you just came from. Sometimes it's old grass regrowth, sometimes its brand new grass. But it never quits growing.

Yep and I'm not blaming it on leo's either. Heck I couldn't if I wanted to, there's not any to blame it on!

I spoke with Jeff Mangrum last winter before going in deer hunting one afternoon. I told him about the noticeable increase of gunshots after dark whIle I would be hiking out. He and both agreed that it's alost futile- especially in large expansive swamps where private owners have quick access in and out via atv. What can you do?

There has been many times, in the last few years, where I was the last one out that night. As I'd walk through a wma green patch, I'd always scan the ground for deer/human tracks, etc. The next morning, I'd be the 1st one in. More often than not, there'd be fresh atv tracks in the patch, and even one time there was blood from where a deer had very obviously been spotlighted the night before.

I don't know what the reprocussions are for people illegally accessing wma's from private lands (other than tresspassing, not checking in, etc.) but I personally feel that the penalties should be so stiff that, when the one poacher gets caught, the fear of God will go into their buddies and others who hear of it.

I'm jus about fed up with it. Thank goodness I got a bird dog and a crappie boat.

[deltadukman]

I'm jus about fed up with it. Thank goodness I got a bird dog and a crappie boat.

So you want to talk about the Yankees raping our crappie and taking them north to sell them?

[greenheadgrimreaper]

I'm jus about fed up with it. Thank goodness I got a bird dog and a crappie boat.

So you want to talk about the Yankees raping our crappie and taking them north to sell them?

Why would they go north?

What, now I can't sell crappie?

[bigwater]

Neshoba county area has been known as a roost shooters paradise for many many years. Ledford was from over that way . He said he been duck hunting 10 years and roost shooting was all he had ever known. Said he didn't even know you hunted ducks in the am until he went off to further his education at the flagship university