1st Duck Limit

[Sneaker]

Got my first duck limit this weekend, my second year getting into duck hunting. I'm convinced it must have been the new rig was the lucky ticket. 1 green wing, three ruddy ducks, 3 mallard.

[PRDATR]

Very, Very Cool. I've gone a couple of time but never see ducks when I'm duck hunting. LOL

[firstcoueswas80]

I got my first limit as well, And my first widgeon. My son had a blast. 

The bronco bringing the luck is awesome. 

[idgaf]

I've got one limit in my life. It was a drop the mike moment.  Didn't know it at the time.  On one waterhole I got a woodduck, 2 pigtails, male and female mallards.   

Big congrats. 

[GreatWhiteBuffalo]

Outstanding

Let us know how thr Ruddy tastes!

[AZAV8ER]

I can recall my first AZ duck limit, it was opening weekend 1969. It was my dad and brother along with our neighbor up in the white mountains. I think we had a boat and decoys set up on the W end of basin lake just north of big lake in eastern AZ. High overcast, breezy and the migration south was going strong. We could see V after V of waterfowl high up flying south. On a regular interval ducks would bomb in over our decoys. One time a pair of red head drakes came in at full speed from left to right just over the decoys and I got on them fast, had that old Winchester MOD 97 12G working faster than you would think a 13 year old could and dropped them both, bang bang. 2 days 4 limits each day and 56 birds total. Mallards, pintails, widgeon, gadwall and teal. Awesome weekend hunt and as you can guess have never seen its like since.

[yotebuster]

Sweet!!  Ruddies swim their way into the decoys?  

[thegunsmith2506]

Very cool! I haven't got a limit this year yet, but I hope to. 

[Sneaker]

18 hours ago, yotebuster said:

Sweet!!  Ruddies swim their way into the decoys?  

The decoying was dead with nothing flying so I changed tactics and jump shot everything... although I keep investing, I haven't quite got decoying success figured out yet.

[yotebuster]

On 11/22/2022 at 2:46 PM, Sneaker said:

The decoying was dead with nothing flying so I changed tactics and jump shot everything... although I keep investing, I haven't quite got decoying success figured out yet.

The thing nobody tells you about decoying ducks is the decoys usually are hardly necessary.  If you’re in a place to really decoy ducks well it’s because they wanna be there anyway.  I’ve shot more ducks over a single robo duck in the right spot than giant spreads.