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Duck Question ! ( Answer when your thru laughing ! )

Postby RIP EM » Mon Sep 22, 2003 10:14 am

I heard some of you talking on here the other day.

The subject was, planting "sweet taters", as a method to attract ducks !

FINE !

Then,.... someone mentioned how the "SMELL", would pull em in from all over.......
THE SMELL ???...... Was this a joke on Ol' Rip Em ???
If so,....... ya got me !!!

If its not a joke,....... Answer this.

If a duck can "smell" decomposing sweet taters, WHAT IN TARNATION KEEPS THEM FROM SMELLING ME AND MY HUNTING BUDDIES (SMOKING A GOOD O'L CAMEL FILTER OR WINSTON LIGHT) WHEN THEY SWING DOWNWIND TO COME INTO THE SPREAD ????

Is this responsible for the un-explainable flare !

Is this why David Melton cant kill a duck ? :lol:

Personally..... I think I've been had !

Just wondering !

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Postby Denduke » Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:13 am

Hey Rip, those 2 holes by their heads up on their bills are their nostrils. Not a zoologist/olfactory expert but gotta be for smelling and breathing when they're straining through their bills. The threshold or keenness of their smell is unkown to me, but common sense tells you they're not gonna smell a lot flying along. But if they catch a smell of something they particularly like that is so strong they do smell it , well why not. Them boys in Ark. are believers. Lots of different food sources can smell even to the hunters if it's strong enough. Wouldn't you agree? They maybe can fly low over a slough, bayou and actually smell what's down there as they pass. To be able to smell cigarretes or human scent well I think you got me.
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Postby crow » Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:20 am

Dear goodness, if ducks develop the sense of smell as keen as a deer is, we never will kill one!

Did you hear the one about the mother duck who had two eggs hatch. She named the two ducklings In and Out. One day, In and Out left the nest and got lost. The mother duck only found In and never did find Out. Wanna know how she found the one....In stinked! :roll:
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Postby RIP EM » Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:46 am

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Thats pretty good ! :lol:

Rip Em ! :lol: :lol:
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Postby Sunchaser » Mon Sep 22, 2003 2:09 pm

I am no expert, but I think I read on here a while back that the ducks supposedly liked the oil from the sweet potatoes as they decomposed in the flooded field. Good for their feathers, I think? If I remember correctly there was also some discussion about using molasses in a duck hole for the same reason. I also think there was some debate about the legality of these techniques.

Just saying what I recall reading - not sure about the truth of it all.
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Postby Delta Duck » Mon Sep 22, 2003 4:28 pm

Ripem, That is why you are always supposed to hunt down wind! :lol:

Yall be sure to remember that, You might have to move the blind 3 or 4 times during a morning hunt. :lol: :lol: :lol: It will help if you get a snorkel and stay under water till they land. :lol: :lol:
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Postby Sunchaser » Mon Sep 22, 2003 4:32 pm

I get the feeling I've been had on this one.
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Postby RIP EM » Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:32 am

You & me both, Sunchaser ! :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Postby Brian Hollis » Tue Sep 23, 2003 9:23 am

Coming Soon!!!! Tink's "Hen in Heat" . Send $19.99 to reserve your bottle now. :lol: :wink:
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Postby RIP EM » Tue Sep 23, 2003 12:19 pm

Do any of you remember Tinks' Turkey Scent !!! :roll:

No joke.... Saw some of it with my own 2 eyes !!! Might have possibly been a joke (it was), but they did make it !

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Postby RDB » Thu Sep 25, 2003 4:57 pm

Rip Em...Everytime I drive up and down 49 to Jackson and see these folks with pickup loads of sweet taters I can't help but think of you and your post. Maybe we should buy a truckload and "sweeten" up a good honey hole..no pun intended. :P
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Postby Delta Duck » Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:50 pm

Hey Ripem, buy you a truck load of them taters, bring me a sack full the next time you are up this way! :wink:
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Postby Delta Duck » Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:59 pm

That reminds me, we had some baked sweet taters, butter beans, rice, cornbread, sliced tomatoes, doves, and my last duck last night for a sit down dinner.

Dang I hate to start on them snow geese! Hey Ripem you better make that 2 sacks of them taters.
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Postby GulfCoast » Thu Sep 25, 2003 11:43 pm

WHAT IN TARNATION KEEPS THEM FROM SMELLING ME AND MY HUNTING BUDDIES (SMOKING A GOOD O'L CAMEL FILTER OR WINSTON LIGHT) WHEN THEY SWING DOWNWIND TO COME INTO THE SPREAD ????


Maybe they can't smell the smoke from the cigarettes 'cause da wind from all da roboduck wings keeps it blown out...... :D
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Postby RIP EM » Fri Sep 26, 2003 11:47 am

Gulfcoast- Ain't never had luck with a robo,....after the sun got up , anyway ! (this is true)

Delta Duck- Sweet taters on the way,.... Coming that-a -way tonight.... be on the road from 6:30 till about 11..... Call Boss Hawg Jrs' cell number !

See ya Sat.

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