windy ducks

[DeltaCotton12]

I don't have much experience with winds being 15-20mph with gust of 35. How do the ducks react to this? Will they huddle down and stay out of the wind or are they just as active and fly a hell of a lot faster?

What have been ya'lls experience with this type of weather?

Anyone hunt this morning in this wind?

[cwink]

I have had some great hunts in the wind and the rain..

[vicksburg]

Hunted this morning and the birds were low and flapping hard, but barely moving while coming in. Made for some easy pickins. Made it back to the office at 8:10.

[LawDawg]

it can be some of the most fun hunts because the ducks have to make their mind up well before then come in and I have seen them literally come 100 feet straight down into the trees. I love it. never done any field hunting in the wind though.

[msudawg8087]

Hunted in stormy weather last year and killed the crap out of em....mostly teal.......just one of those days i guess.

[Ordek Avci]

Hunted a rice field in AR on a day just like today, snowy and windy, and killed a few. It seemed to reduce the number of ducks we saw, but as everyone is saying, the ones we saw were easy to kill.

[peewee]

Hunted this morning and the birds were low and flapping hard, but barely moving while coming in. Made for some easy pickins. Made it back to the office at 8:10.

Thanks for the invite

[tombstone]

the three that hunted from our group this morning had a limit before 8. 12 mallards, widgeons, and woodducks.

[torch]

If you don't have a lot of hunters in your area the ducks will stay down. With that said the ones that will work the decoys are an easy shot when held up in the wind.

[Faithful Retrievers]

We spanked em pretty hard in this north wind this morning. Cloud cover was low so extra cover was the key. We would come out of the pit and them birds couldn't hardly get up, they was "dead" into the wind. Once we reached our limit we sat for a bit and watched all the birds. Its amazing how they will flock into real birds piled up. They began to lite about 75 yards passed the decoys and the birds would suck down out of the sky and not take a moments hesitation as to see if they were real.

[timberjack]

We whacked 'em this morning too. They'd come around and catch that north wind then turn back into it and stop on a dime. Most shots were floatin' right in front of us....3 limits by 8:30, saw lots of ducks, I dont think the wind bothers 'em at all...I got this video last year in a hard NW wind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY9dAdSU6IM

[mmkenty]

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[mdc153]

Me and another guy hunted this morning, and there were ducks all over us. They would come in and sit still in the wind trying to land. Made for an interesting hunt and ended up being one short of the limit.

[mottlet]

The first bright clear day after a front moves through, with the wind whipping outta the northwest spells disaster for ducks. Those are the days you will straight up hammer em, regardless of where you are and what kind of habitat you're hunting.

[Locked Up]

I like it because like stated above they have to make their minds up pretty quick and most just want to get down and out of the wind......You sometimes have to blow the heck out of your call to turn them for a look. Easy picken when they are coming in most of the time, like shooting a KITE....