Favorite duck hunts may be spent in familiar haunts near home, with family and close friends. Decoying mallards and gadwalls in cypress brakes, bouncing teal across flooded bean fields, and shooting passing woodies from oak-lined creeks are fun times we duck hunters live for. Hunt-wise, opening day of Mississippi's dove season is the last on Earth I'd miss for anything.
Duck hunts is the stuff from which dreams are made, and dreams vary greatly among waterfowlers. Unique species, simple changes in scenery or trigger-pulling that's been illegal in the U.S. for nearly a century are among the many reasons that seemingly normal duck hunters may travel.
Duck hunters are often described as crazy for playing in water during cold weather, but some duck hunters are crazier than others. And it's a mighty big world.
I've got a bucket list of duck hunts around the world, too. Wild and remote places compel me. Adventure is a must; new species are a plus.
One dream hunt presently exists solely in snapshots and the translated, first-hand description of an Argentine acquaintance's quest for his own dream duck. The hunt occurs in a remote jungle – as wild as anything in the Amazon Basin much further to its north. Hunters leave the hotel long before daylight, drive down tire-rutted trails into jungle blackness. Temperatures are in the 90s. Walk down hand-cut trails by headlights, towards coconut palm-studded swamps. There are numerous duck species and liberal shooting limits. The duck that draws you here feeds exclusively on young, walnut-sized coconuts. The swamp seethes with insects, with yellow anacondas as long most living rooms are wide. Monkeys scream from the treetops at daylight, maybe a jaguar roars from deep within the forest shadows; you hear your intended quarry’s wing beats on mangroves, like fast raps n wooden doors, as they grow impatient to feed. Later they will take flight, weaving through towering palms towards waiting decoys.
There's a crazy twist to it that is, as Paul Harvey would say, the rest of the story. That will be continued later.
What’s your dream duck hunt?
Ramsey Russell ‘s GetDucks.com is a full-time, full-service agency specializing in wing shooting with major emphasis on trophy duck species and trophy duck hunting experiences. It's duck season somewhere. Your trip of a lifetime deserves – and receives – our full attention. Ready to pull the trigger?
Duck hunts is the stuff from which dreams are made, and dreams vary greatly among waterfowlers. Unique species, simple changes in scenery or trigger-pulling that's been illegal in the U.S. for nearly a century are among the many reasons that seemingly normal duck hunters may travel.
Duck hunters are often described as crazy for playing in water during cold weather, but some duck hunters are crazier than others. And it's a mighty big world.
I've got a bucket list of duck hunts around the world, too. Wild and remote places compel me. Adventure is a must; new species are a plus.
There's a crazy twist to it that is, as Paul Harvey would say, the rest of the story. That will be continued later.
What’s your dream duck hunt?
Ramsey Russell ‘s GetDucks.com is a full-time, full-service agency specializing in wing shooting with major emphasis on trophy duck species and trophy duck hunting experiences. It's duck season somewhere. Your trip of a lifetime deserves – and receives – our full attention. Ready to pull the trigger?
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