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I have one duck call on my lanyard, and it is cutdown PS Olt D2 Keyhole. I absolutely love it, it's from the 40s, sounded like a duck then, sounds like a duck now. If anyone has keyhole Olts laying around, let me know and I will probably buy them.

@JohnP Got lucky the other day and killed 5 mallards and 4 geese with a buddy recently in your neck of the woods. That recent weather system did some good.

My go to goose recipe is a BBQ pulled goose. Saute a yellow onion and some minced garlic, then brown two goose breasts in the same pan. Put it all in a crockpot with some Worcestershire and beef broth, cook on high for about 6 hours or until you can pull it apart with forks. Toss in BBQ sauce and let it sit in the fridge over night.

Very slow for us. We killed a pintail, woody and gadwall opening day in the middle zone. Best I heard of was one group of guys that had been hunting the area we were at for the past 20+ years killed 14 teal.

Late reply, but in my opinion the best call to learn on is a Haydel DR-85. It is what I always recommend to my friends. Very easy to blow, sounds great.

Well we got 21 between 3 guys today in a few hours. Hoping others did better.

Going out in the AM as well. Seems like a lot of birds left with the cold and rain, but there's still quite a few in the fields I am hunting. Good luck to all!

That's what happens when they make a rule saying you can't enter the WMA until 4:00 AM. They have managed to cut down on the racing pretty well by making a single file gate for leaving the staging area in many areas. This year was a lot less boat racing, and a lot more foot races due to the lack of water. I saw people on bicycles, as well as people in running shoes and running shorts.

Great deal. If I didn't have one already, I'd be all over this.

Hey you can't complain about that! I'd be happy with that most days, a nice mixed bag. South zone I'm guessing?

Last week was pretty good, however with this warm spell and south winds I believe many of the birds have retreated back up north.

I usually run around Four Rivers with a 40HP outboard with manual trim and it gets us everywhere we need to go, and we usually get deep into the marsh. My advice for your first hunt there is to launch at daylight and see where the birds want to be. You'll be able to find cover in tree lines or buck brush.

Sorry for the late reply, been hunting and scouting a whole lot lately. Banded in Arkansas 2 years ago, shot in Arkansas, all banded together. It was a group of four mallards, two drakes and two hens. Saw the jewelry on one of them, and we killed the whole group. I normally try to wait until after season to post kill pictures, but with the extremely warm weather in Arkansas and Missouri, and lack of water in the woods in Arkansas, there's already more hunters than ducks out there.

My hunting group needs to go buy some lottery tickets. Had a great hunt the other day, but had one really special group of mallards come in. The picture tells the whole story. It's been a great season so far!

We'll be near there Thursday and Friday I believe. We hunted Saturday morning and it was fairly slow, lots and lots of high flyers though. @BilletHead I've been wanting to hunt Horton Bottoms for a while, but were going to wait until later in the season for mallards to show up, and hope the river gets out and floods the woods.