Boredom Therapy

[Gavin]

Bring it! Just say you want in. FW and Billet Head can judge it.

[fishinwrench]

BH will probably compete.  I'll judge if you want me to....but I'm ignorant to duck talk. Ignorant to turkey, deer, crow, squirrel, and injured rabbit talk too. 

I learned a long time ago that the best thing for me to do with game calls is to leave them in my pocket.

[Terrierman]

All my good duck calls are gone now.  Huge mistake, I had some good ones.  Probably the best one was made and signed by Jeff Foiles.  I was PO'd that I could not duck hunt anymore and sold or gave away everything.  Decoys, layout boat and a nice rack, waders, and 14' boat blind, motor and trailer.  Only wish I'd kept the waders and the calls.  They were very nice heavy neoprene boot foot waders that I never once got cold while wearing them.  I do still have a very nice pair of handmade cork mallard decoys that my hunting buddy made from scratch and gave to me.  And a fair bit of waterfowl art.  DU got a lot of my $$$ over the years!

[Gavin]

Foiles is still making calls under the ROK label you can get another. Lot of fun making noise & trying to slake the acorns off the trees!

[BilletHead]

13 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

BH will probably compete.  I'll judge if you want me to....but I'm ignorant to duck talk. Ignorant to turkey, deer, crow, squirrel, and injured rabbit talk too. 

I learned a long time ago that the best thing for me to do with game calls is to leave them in my pocket.

           Ahhhh Negatory.

[Terrierman]

Still miss waterfowling a lot.  Cannot imagine doing any sort of guided hunt though.  For me, it was always about figuring it out with friends, staying in fun places with them, and seeing a wad of ducks in a blue sky setting their wings into the wind and wanting to sit with us.  And then grilling a breast or two medium rare and having a few drinks   Good times they were.  Better to have loved and lost as I've read.  Loved it from 15 to 55 or thereabouts.

[snagged in outlet 3]

1 hour ago, Terrierman said:

Still miss waterfowling a lot.  Cannot imagine doing any sort of guided hunt though.  For me, it was always about figuring it out with friends, staying in fun places with them, and seeing a wad of ducks in a blue sky setting their wings into the wind and wanting to sit with us.  And then grilling a breast or two medium rare and having a few drinks   Good times they were.  Better to have loved and lost as I've read.  Loved it from 15 to 55 or thereabouts.

Get up at midnight and drive 3 hours to duck creek.  Hope you draw a good blind.  Eat hostess cherry pies and black coffee.  Sit frozen and soaking wet for hours to shoot one lone drake.  Drive 3 back.  Success!

[Mitch f]

19 hours ago, Gavin said:

Bring it! Just say you want in. FW and Billet Head can judge it.

I’ll enter...where do I sign up?

[Johnsfolly]

I have not had a good to great duck hunt yet. Have drawn poorly and stood in frozen water to shoot at one duck if we were lucky. I know a bunch of folks not on OAF that love it. I do like eating duck. MD thinks that they are the premier waterfowl hunting destination. We see a lot of ducks and lots and lots of geese around. Lots of leased land around us gets hunted hard.. Though I don't  know guys at work that hunt ducks or geese. 

[Terrierman]

33 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Get up at midnight and drive 3 hours to duck creek.  Hope you draw a good blind.  Eat hostess cherry pies and black coffee.  Sit frozen and soaking wet for hours to shoot one lone drake.  Drive 3 back.  Success!

I've never been to duck creek.  Grew up on Schell Osage when the old HQ was there and hunted it a lot after it was gone.  Spent a lot of time in the middle C blinds.  Good times.