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For anybody who is interested there are still plenty of ducks up here-but they are hard to get.I hunt the Ms. river bottoms just nw of St. Louis.The forecast for tommorrow am is light snow and 23. We haven't had ice(except for skim less than 1/4 ")in 1 1/2 weeks.Turned the pump on @ 7:30 ,hoping we have open water in am.Haven't killed a duck in 2 days-didn't even shoot this am or yesterday pm.Spend most of the time staring at the blue sky.You can stand in the middle of the decoys and land ducks within 30 yards 10 min. after shooting time.The rest of the day very few ducks give you more than one high pass-even fewer get within gun range.Should be froze solid by Christmas.Merry Christmas to all-will report after Christmas -Happy Hollidays!

Well, I heard from a guy at the barber shop, that lives down the street, from a guy that used to be married to a frederal game wardens ex wife's cousin, that du is to blame for what you are seeing. Yes sir... I hate to break it to you. Seems they bought all those ducks tiny lil watches so they know what time the tv show is on, and the ducks are using that to know what time they can fly. bwhahahaha

What ducks are feeding on you? You must be a commie pinko game hog! bwhahahahahahahahahahaha.

No wait. It's a lesbian commie pinko game hog with a half twist double moca! Dat's it!

I say we picket out front of DU head quaters... tie ourselves to jamerson parkers wheelchair.... we need a good riot induced chant. Being the smart one of this bunch, I think I'll make us up one.

HELL NO, IT AIN'T SNOW!
HELL NO, IT AIN'T SNOW!
IT DU'S TV SHOW THATS GOT TO GO!

Yes sir, I know a thing a two bout a thing or two, and thats DEFIENTLY a conspricy if I ever seen one. travis

Goose,
Rumor has it that Jamerson Parker quit the DU shows because DU was moving more torward like a greenpeace org.

Two drakes,two hens by 10:00 . Snow didn't start til 1pm. Down to 17 tonight-14 tommorrow,50 on Sat. Maybe we'll still have ducks on the Dec.31 when the season closes(middle zone). Haven't killed anything but mallards for 3 weeks.What brought all that on Mr. Goosebruce?Take two aspirin and call me in the morning-but not tommorrow morning,its Christmas. Merry Christmas.

Hey, maybe they can get Phil Robertson to take his place. BWAAAHAHahahaha .....'might boost membership.

......or, how 'bout that Matthews fella from Avery (Sorry, Phil)....."This week, we're going to show you how to use a cell phone to call the farmer and tell him to come pump our field up for us..........really, really, really!" ......then we'll show you how to celebrate a miracle........6 people stand-up and empty their guns on one duck at 75 yards from a roll-top blind......and it glides 200yds before it hits the third a levee over. "NICE SHOT, NICE SHOT, NICE SHOT!!!" Then we'll dedicate the next show to tell hunters how they can determine which one of those 6 'expert' shotgun specialists actually HIT the duck. Then we'll do a segment entitled.......'If we had a retriever, we wouldn't have to drive the 4-wheeler so far to pick-up our cripples."

I personally don't care for them avery boys myself. They seem to think their $hit don't stink and they are better than EVERYONE! Smug arrogant "@#$%#" IMO.

D-Dog take it from somebody who has hunted with them in the past, you are exactly right! Wouldn't pi$$ on'em if they were on fire!

Anatidae, I think you got it figgered out.

12/26/02:saw lots of high ducks this am.Afew boys with open h20 were killing ducks.Had a slight malfunction with polypipe - our hole was mostly froze(14 last nite). Chased afew ducks out of hole @3:30 pm,fixed pipe,saw several thou. high ducks late,hope to have open h2o in am . Looks like there are still plenty of ducks but they are hard to get.River is still open and some fields (where pumps are running). We have approx. 4" of snow on ground, but a lot may melt this weekend.Ice is approx. 1" thick .

Hey, Thanks for the report mdb1...'hope to see some birds soon.

Matthews can't host the DU show......it's only 30 minutes long and he says everything in triplicate which would require 1-1/2 hours air-time. But as fast as he talks, they still might cram-in one of his frantic hunts in the alotted time frame. "Really, really, really........nice shot, nice shot, nice shot."

Yours truly, "Get'em, get'em, get'em!

Leave it up to Anatidae to humor up a post. haha And by the way,ya'll keep your kids away from him unless you got lots of money to buy lots of skeets and lots of 20 ga shells.hehehehehehehe These yungins don't get tired,they speed up and want cha to throw three at a time so they can shoot like anatidae bwahahahahahaha Hope some of them birds get lost and drift this way

12/27/02:ok boys,1 mallard drake this am and lucky to get him. Saw afew groups of high ducks in the am.Saw a couple thousand 30 min. after shooting time.Snow is melting,ice is still everywhere(except river and a few places where pumps are running)forecast is for 50 degree high tommorrow so most snow will be gone.4 days left in middle zone,heading south after the 31rst.Looks we lost some ducks but there are still quite a few around,but they're getting smarter every day.

1/07/03:hunted bootheel thurs.&mon. Saw alot of smart ducks land 50 to a 100 yds. outside of decoys both days. Didn't kill a duck thurs. Yesterday we hunted a better pool three of us killed 11 mallards and 1 greenwing. Saw a couple of groups of pintails(closed up here) and a couple of groups of teal , other than that all mallards. 1/31/03(last day of Mo. middle zone) 3 killed 6 greenheads-weather is forecasted to be warm here all week so if ducks move south it won't be from ice or snow up here , there isn't any-sorry. I still see large no.s of birds up here.

sounds like the fat lady is getting ready for her annual performance folks...

This season has been better than last year but pretty poor when looking back. Maybe we'll get a freakish cold blast the last week....we'll see.

Do the snow dance for us MO.

Can't belive dat ya'll would mack on dem avery dudes video... $#!+, if it weren't for the whole steel shot conspricy dem dudes would empty 6 guns and that would only sail 100 yards before it fell.

Empty 6 guns and knock down a duck. Dem guys are shooting good compared to us last weekend! Ah curmba. By the time we had the first duck on the bench sunday, we had 20 hulls on the floor... 2 whiffs on a sucidal greenhead by my bro, and 3 of us shooting to the plugs before we cracked an old gals wing and she sailed 165 yards... I ain't trashing nobody's shooting for a while after that display.

Had a perfectly good zone, blown to hell. Tellin ya'll, i was in a zone. Since pintails weren't legal when i went into this DUCK KILLING zone, my mind had a block onthe lil buggers. Near as i can figger, when I started blasting hell outta them sat morning, my mind hadn't reaized it was pintail season so it was shanking my shots.

Cudda been a conspricy on my shells though. Im not ruling it out. travis