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08-30-2018, 11:51 PM #1Fizzy Laces Connoisseur
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It's fowling season..... 2018
Wild fowling season starts here in the UK on Saturday.
This is going to be my first season out. Looking forward to getting out on the foreshore in the wee hours.
Any wildfowlers here?
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08-30-2018, 11:54 PM #2Skeptical Member
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Had to Google it. Ducks and geese. I see. Sorry, not a wildfowler.
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08-31-2018, 03:35 AM #3Senior Member
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There are a lot here. I have hunted them in the past but unless someone else wants the, I don’t bother. I hate cleaning them. Good eating though. Good luck.
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08-31-2018, 03:53 AM #4Razor Vulture
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I am fairly lazy and had a few episodes of hypothermia out in the morning cold hunting geese and ducks about a decade ago. Crawling to the truck and everything I could do to put the key in the ignition was scary. Warm-up and go find my gun!
Sad part was I was damn good at it. Oh I had a feed-call to beat all!
Don't like wild duck much either. I always breasted them out and made chili.
Now my big fun anymore is dove-hunting and upland game if someone will take me.
Drive out to the field and pop out my stool.
Love hunting with good dogs. Don't know anyone anymore, sadly.
Used to go pheasant, chukar, quail with some old dudes who had some good pups.
They are all gone anymore.
Wing-shooting is fun.
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08-31-2018, 12:18 PM #5Senior Member
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Haven't missed opening day with my son since '09. Now my grandson is going with us also. I've got 80 acres just south of San Antonio (South Zone) so I have to wait until the 14th to start but I loaded 500 rounds of 12ga last weekend and I'm ready to go!
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08-31-2018, 12:29 PM #6Fizzy Laces Connoisseur
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Will need to try loading myself. We need to use steel shot here. Not cheap.
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08-31-2018, 01:08 PM #7Senior Member
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I go every season. I enjoy being out on the bay in the winter when there is nobody out there. We get mostly Bufflehead and Mergansers. Also Mallard and Black ducks. Good luck and enjoy.
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08-31-2018, 01:19 PM #8Fizzy Laces Connoisseur
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Thanks. Originally Posted by Hacker7
I'll be happy to get a single duck this season. From looking at last years bag returns for the bay I am going to it looks like mostly mallard and wigeon and a couple of goose species.
Will consider myself supremely lucky if I get a goose for Christmas dinner.
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08-31-2018, 02:25 PM #9Razor Vulture
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Gramps! It's ME! Your long-lost grandson! Originally Posted by Diboll
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08-31-2018, 11:52 PM #10Senior Member
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I love bird hunting but the wife no longer cares for the meat so I don't do much quacker smacking any more.
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