one rare duck

[kenneth lister]

Last season a buddy and i were hunting in alabama and i had the luck to kill a ruddy shell duck.I would like to hear if anyone else has seen or killed one in past?

[duckhunter14]

is there a difference in a ruddy shell duck and just a normal ruddy duck ??? i have never seen either other than on the internet, but if you got pics post them i would like to see what it looks like... also welcome to the site

[CB]

Had one come and sit in our deks a couple of years ago at Malmasion, after he flew off I said to myself, that was stupid, would have made a great mount for this area!!

[weimhunter]

Is this yalls duck? I know it was killed in Alabama near or on the Tenn Tomm. I would say this is the only one ever shoot in MS or AL!

[CB]

Does not look like the one I saw, guess the one that we saw was just a plain ole Ruddy duck!!!! Cute little fellow though!

[jimbotheduckman]

Sweet! Hope you took this to the taxidermist. Had a similar experience 20 years ago. Killed a White Winged Scoter hen on Black Lake in north Louisiana. This is an Atlantic Flyway seaduck.

Ducks Unlimited had an article a few months ago about exotic ducks being taken in the US. They had an interesting theory that some of them were the result of ducks escaping from zoos and private captivity. Have you seen the Duckmen 9 dvd in which they killed a Mandarin duck? It was mixed in with Wood Ducks. I wonder if it's a coincidence that Phil Robertson's honey hole is about 10 miles due south of the Louisiana Purchase Gardens & Zoo in Monroe, LA. Hmm.

Anyway congratulations again on your rare trophy.

"A duck call in the hands of a novice is conservation's greatest friend." --Nash Buckingham

[duckkiller]

cool nice bird he would be on the wall fo sho

[Grommet]

He must have taken a wrong turn at Albuqerque.

[champcaller]

yea you just shot a normal ruddy. ive shot a bunch. we hunt near fish ponds and we can fill a limit of those with no problem

[Law Duck]

We killed about four of them one day year before last. I was out in the boat picking up a couple of dead ones and we had a flight buzz through. One man shot once and killed one. Another buddy in the blind shot once and missed, but the second shot he killed three.... he shot at the lead duck and killed the last three. They were pretty little ducks. Tasted good too.

[Double R 2]

that's a ruddy shelduck posted up. I remember when he poatsed here last year wondering what in the heck it was.

[Up2Early]

Allegedly...those ruddy ducks have the same diet as a blue wing teal, therefore should taste good. I'm not sold yet, I just have an issue with anything that can be found mostly on fish ponds. Ruddys seem OK in gumbo. Maybe it's just a mental block.

champ, glad we're filling limits with big ducks now

[champcaller]

Allegedly...those ruddy ducks have the same diet as a blue wing teal, therefore should taste good. I'm not sold yet, I just have an issue with anything that can be found mostly on fish ponds. Ruddys seem OK in gumbo. Maybe it's just a mental block.

champ, glad we're filling limits with big ducks now

and its about time. we get better and better about that every year .

[Wingman]

I saw a ruddy fly into a power line once. I watched two others dive under the ice; they were sitting in the only open spot on the pond...about a 3 foot hole. You could see them swim under the ice around in a big circle, then pop back up in the hole. Dive again, swim under the ice in a circle and pop back up in the hole.

And that is my ruddy claim to fame.

[Ducks be us]

Ruddy beats Ganzer ANYDAY...The first 2 ducks I shot where Ruddy's when I was 9... The Dad let em swim into the dekes