the best and worst counties for duck hunting in Ms.......

[bigwater]

well i'm bored so I took this info and broke it down... this info was obtained from the nov 03 issue of woods and water... band returns for birds harvested in Ms. b/w 1990-2000...........
(1)tally 466 ducks (2)leflore 346 ducks (3)yazoo 238 ducks (4) tunica 219 ducks (5) panola 218 ducks
(6) bolivar 214 (7) carroll 212 (8) warren 206 (9) sunflower 181 (10) Quitman
(11) washington (12) holmes 129 (13) tate 124 (14) coahoma 113 (15) wilkinson 106 (16) humphries 105 (17) lowndes 89 (18) sharkey 82
(19) alcorn 79 (20) montgomery 78 (21) madison 73 (22) issaquiena & rankin 67 (24) lafayatte & calhoun 62 (26) itawamba 51 (27) jefferson 48
(28) hinds 41 (29) claiborne & monroe 39 (31) pontotoc 37 (32) adams 35 (33) jackson & desoto 32 (35) amite 26 (36) union 25 (37) prentiss 24 (38) marion & pearl river 20 (40) noxubee, leake, & marshall 19 (43) winston & neshoba 18 (45) tippiah 17 (46) webster & lauderdale 16 (48) attala, oktibeeha, clay & chickasaw 15 (52) wayne 14 (53) jones &

Grenada 13 (55) simpson & lee 12 (57) copiah 11 (58) yalaboushia & forrest 10 (60) tishimingo, george & forrest 9 (63) Benton 8 (64) lawerence, kemper & newton 7 (67) smith & perry 6 (69) jasper & pike 4 (71) clarke & lincoln 3 (73) hancock harrison stone & jeff davis 2 (77) greene walthall covington franklin & choctaw 1 and last and least the worst county for duck hunting in Ms

(82) lamar 0


suprises why are the numbers for grenada county so low???
more suprises how about lowndes county montogomery county and alcorn county

good luck and happry hunting
bigw

[GulfCoast]

I am stunned any ducks were killed in Union! At least after I left home

[litlhitch]

With all the outlaws in Grenada, I imagine there were more killed- just out of season or illegaly. That's probably why there wasn't more reported

[iron grip]

Hey bigfarter I hope someone counts yours in humphreys co. for this decade. Hell of a research job BW. I personally am stunned by the low number of birds from issaquena on the river.

[Wildfowler]

I personally am stunned by the low number of birds from issaquena on the river.

It's because all that land has been converted to WRP, with no suitable duck habitat.

[DRUM07]

It's hard to find a good flooded pine hole down here in Lamar Co.

[BeastMaster]

can anyone explain the large diff in tallahatchie co as compared to the #3 and #4 and so on ??? what is your theory on that one Benny? why does tally out perform all these other counties...i would of figured higher numbers from bolivar, washington, coahoma counties...

[chopper30]

Beastmaster, that's simple!
Talli is God's Country!

[gadwall2]

Beastmaster, just look at a topo map or aerial photo of the county. Note the......well I better quit before I get shot.

[bigwater]

wildfowler wrote ' all the land in issaquena county has been converted to WRP no suitable habitat for ducks.. come on now wildfowler tell me what you mean by that!!! I've got to know more bout this....
later bigw

[EASY-E]

I've been luking at this here bored over the las few months and this post here from bigwatr sparked my intrest because I have myself been on three hunts in perry county wier banded birds wer killt and I did myself shoot one of those six bands with my padners taken three more out of the same hold so does he mean to tell me the hole i hunt for the past thirty year has taken four out of the six bands for the county. This place is right on the leaf river and with the right amount of corn will get covered up with ducks hell i saw bout sixty ducks in ther one morning but they left so we went back ther that evening an sho nuff they came back and WE WAXED DAT AZZZZZZZZ! Fourteen of us kilt all sixty when they came back but it wuz damn neer midnight when we finly found all them birds and the ol lady was fightin mad when i give her them birds and told her to have some ready for breakfast by next morning but she had some of the best duck grits I's ever eatin ready for me when i got up that day. I love duck huntin!

[bigwater]

eaaassssiiie easy-e you can't just bust onto this board and talk openly about your game violations....... lets see. baiting (oh lordy don't get'em started on this subject) shooting over the limit.... roost shooting...

Yep, you sound like a perry county duck hunter!!!!!

thats a funny story... youz goona get yours.......... goota get yourz fore i get mine.........

later bigw.

[iron grip]

Get down Easy E some shots may be fired back in your direction on this board talking like that. I can imagine hunting ducks in your part of the world can be hard, and i congradulate you for reporting those bands and on taking them. but please don't use the words corned up, or right amount of corn, or hunting over chops, or anything that can be misconstrued or suggests you are baiting a hole and hunting over it. that could get you in some trouble with the law. One more thing, could you get us the recipe for those duck grits? That sounds enticing.
secondly Wildfowler wrote:

It's because all that land has been converted to WRP, with no suitable duck habitat.

big water asked as will I what do you mean by this? NO suitable hunting in a county bordered by the Big River that is in some way (great or small) envolved in the Wetlands Restoration Project (WRP)?

[slim jim]

I kill a few ducks in Union county and even seen pintail's up here this year but that was only once.

[dukbum]

on those duck grits does she use instant grits or the real thing? oh yea does she brown the duck meat before she puts them in the grits? is that skin on or skin off on the duck meat? have a good one.....