Quick Question About Duck Jargon

[duckydoty]

Hey Duane,

Did a guy named Jeff Churan ever contact you back in the summer? He was writing a book and looking for an expert on hunting Table Rock and Taneycomo. I forwarded him your information from your Trout runners website.

Yes he did. That was kind of a cool deal. He tried getting ahold of Jim Johnson at Naknek River Camp (the place I started guiding in Alaska) and Jim got ahold of Phil Lilley, then Phil forward the contact information for Jeff to me. We passed a few emails back and forth and I ended up giving him about 3 pages of stuff for hunting Table Rock. My understanding is most of it is going in the book they are collectively writing. Pretty cool deal. Thanks for sending him my way Chris.

[Bird Watcher]

Yes he did. That was kind of a cool deal. He tried getting ahold of Jim Johnson at Naknek River Camp (the place I started guiding in Alaska) and Jim got ahold of Phil Lilley, then Phil forward the contact information for Jeff to me. We passed a few emails back and forth and I ended up giving him about 3 pages of stuff for hunting Table Rock. My understanding is most of it is going in the book they are collectively writing. Pretty cool deal. Thanks for sending him my way Chris.

Ha, good deal. when he said he needed an expert on Taney and Table Rock waterfowl hunting, I thought, there's really only one. He needs to talk to Duane.

[duckydoty]

I made a couple guys really upset one afternoon this year because I wouldn't call the shot. We probably had 3-4 thousand ducks in a Tornado over the top of us in corn field and I just couldn't make myself shoot the singles that kept dropping in. I was just so mesmerized watching the flock spin, dive, and wheel that I didn't want it to be over. Finally after 10-15 minutes, a large group of about 40 did us right and so it was all good. They forgave me, but if we never would have shot a single time at that flock I honestly wouldn't have cared.

Brother Dave, a buddy of mine and I were hunting Truman a couple of weeks ago and had 300-400 mallards tornadoing on us. We had to blow on the calls non-stop till we were blue in the face to keep them working. If we let off, they would start to peal away. Start calling again and they would come back and start circling again getting lower and lower with every pass. On each pass, 2-8 of them would set down in the decoys. This went on for well over 20 minutes and we had several chances to shoot the whole time. The only shot that was fired was after none of us could even gasp another breath of air and blow into the calls. I was seeing stars from calling for so long and could not keep my cheeks from puffing out while trying to call. The shot that was taken was at a single mallard just hovering right over our heads for 30 seconds or more. It fell right into our laps and we just watched the 50-60 birds that were in our decoys lift up and take off with the other couple of hundred that were still in the air. It was an awesome sight that was absolutely mesmerizing. I would not trade that for a pile of any kind of birds ever.