3,000 ducks already

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Heck you get that many people around in the same area hunting the birds will fly bye and flip you off!

did u ever take economics 101.........if we get enough people around here spending money, it will be these people running the ducks off....not us........they will be having what they consider to be fun while running them off

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Why you have to do this in MS? Why dont you go to OH and try these things?

we did not invest money in Ohio.......nor do we live there

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[quote="levi127"]Doesnt it really just seem like it would take the fun out of hunting them?

my neighbor does not hunt

[levi127]

my neighbor did not invest this money to see them fly off into the wild blue yonder the next day or month for that matter..
So in other words he is doing this for his own? and not what you are making it out to seem. whats he going to do if they do leave? Watch his money drift off into the wind?
Do you have any pictures of these? or of them being transported?

Over subsequent years, some RSA landowners have been too greedy, and some biologists have put self-righteousness or their fear of losing authority ahead of their objectivity as scientists. Yet, all in all, the RSAs have been successful. During the past 16 years, approximately 2.2 million mallards have been released. Although owners can legally harvest as many of their own birds during the regular hunting season as they like, club managers have found the optimum sport is had by limiting members and guests to seven mallards each. A number of clubs even abide by the federal limit, though relatively few wild birds are shot at any RSA.

Wow they have become to greedy. heck if you put all that money in to them why would you want them to leave and someone else kill your ducks? I didnt know the owner can shoot as many as they choose. He better have his paperwork on him to show.

Nevertheless, the program continued until 1993 until the duck-stamp law was changed to allow the proceeds to be used for wetlands initiatives. Meanwhile, in 1983, a group of landowners in Dorchester County - a low-lying region of hydric soils inletted by numerous tidal creeks - began what they called the Grand National Waterfowl Association to raise money for the rearing, release, and management of mallards on Regulated Shooting Areas, or RSAs.

this is where I was saying in 1983.

It would be really funny to watch all the ducks hang out where they have been feed and know they are safe at. Then I guess you all invested alot into a bunch of pets! thats to you dang MR GREEN also.

[levi127]

Why are you qouting laddy gaga? I think I should have noticed that and figured something was wrong with you before I even responded to this post

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I was meaning with the OH thing, why dont you go try all this up north instead of brining more people here to hunt. You trying to put MS on the map or something of places more to hunt? Look at AR now, season opens and people actually fight and everything to get into a place. I dont want to deal with that and im sure alot of other people dont either.

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Why are you qouting laddy gaga? I think I should have noticed that and figured something was wrong with you before I even responded to this post

i got a thing for gaga

[levi127]

Yea I took economics, I slept through it becuase I never understood it.
Guess I should have paid more attention.

Yall going to try bear or elk next down here? Im sure you can do alot better with them.

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Yea I took economics, I slept through it becuase I never understood it.
Guess I should have paid more attention.

Yall going to try bear or elk next down here? Im sure you can do alot better with them.

is that legal?

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come buy some land over here and see if you can figure out a way to pay for it

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Yea but I wouldnt buy some land If I had to figure out how to pay for it. Now a dummy can figure that one out

So if a neighbor is doing this, then what exactly are you getting out of this? to kill his birds or if it works you invest money into it next year?

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[quote="levi127"]Yea but I wouldnt buy some land If I had to figure out how to pay for it.

obviously, you've never farmed

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So if a neighbor is doing this, then what exactly are you getting out of this? to kill his birds or if it works you invest money into it next year?[/quote]

if there is a demand, we will raise ducks and sell them to other land owners wanting to do the same thing.

[levi127]

Now being a farmer is different. If that was the case I could see doing things, leasing land to hunt on, crops and so on. Not go buy a bunch of ducks and take a shot in the dark to see what happens. Maybe he had more money then he needed and figured it would be cool to do something like this. You can look at the survey and see what the hunters think.

I would hate for someone to buy them ducks then they all fly right back to where the came from, like his property. Like a cat or dog, they will find their was back home.

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Now being a farmer is different. If that was the case I could see doing things, leasing land to hunt on, crops and so on. Not go buy a bunch of ducks and take a shot in the dark to see what happens. Maybe he had more money then he needed and figured it would be cool to do something like this. You can look at the survey and see what the hunters think.

I would hate for someone to buy them ducks then they all fly right back to where the came from, like his property. Like a cat or dog, they will find their was back home.

i can tell u have not read this thread. the poll that counts is 10 to zero in favor of these ducks. the 10 in favor are the people who already have the holes leased. the mallards are not expected to remain in the area very long. they will, however, remain for a while. they should draw in the migratory ducks as well as offer some mallards early in the season. there are many people who know about these ducks and have seen these ducks. it is not a big secret. there are those who are interested in buying a hundred or so to place in their own duck holes next year. there are farmers who are not in the fly way (some in the hills) who would like to have ducks on land they already own rather than go pay another land owner. there are corporations that would like to send clients to shoot ducks where they are pretty much assured of getting to shoot. it's a big world out there.