Waterfowling tip of the week.

[blindman]

Too bad you could only use it north of the 49th

That's where I do majority of my waterfowling.

[Ian F.]

If at all possible hunt with someone who's family treats you like one of their own and treats you so well you feel embarrassed!

[HuntNHookSports]

Don't forget your gun.

[Mr. Dean]

How-bout a question?

When setting up, how should you (optimaly) factor in wind?
Should it be from your back, into your face???

Does it matter?

[NitwiT]

I think from the side would be optimal, that way the ducks are coming in to land perpendicular to your field of view, makes for easier shooting (i think)

[f350ps]

From your back then it's like shootin ducks off a fence post. K

[NitwiT]

argument on that one would be how do you watch em come in without moving?

[Angus]

If you're hunting on the water's edge, I was under the impression that you'd want the wind at your back. This way the piece of water closest to you (just beyond the near bank) is calm and not rippled. The vegetation acts as a wind-break, and you place your decoys in that calm water. This way the birds see the calm, protected water, full of birds, and they pick that spot to land.

Also they're then landing into the wind, they set their flaps, hit the air brakes, and glide into the wind right into the killing zone.

Another bonus is that if they glide down once they're hit, they are not gliding downwind away from you.

Look at that: go hunting with Dano and Tom a few times and it almost sounds like I know what I'm talking about. I wish I listened that good in school, but then again, school was never this fun.

Terry

[Farmer John]

Ducks land into the wind. So have your back to the wind, get hidden, let them come ALL the way in and don't f*ckin' move.

[Mr. Dean]

Ducks land into the wind. So have your back to the wind, get hidden, let them come ALL the way in and don't f*ckin' move.

Tis what we're doing... But it goes against everything I've learned when hunting Big Game Animals. I haven't hunted over water; the Boxer can only swim enough to keep his nostrils up. The fields I do hunt, have a nice creek that borders the back edge; it has steep banks and I'll use a halibut rig to fish them out, if one should skip into it. But yeah: back up against some trees or scrub on the berms. Put the wind at your back and pretty much forget what's happening on behind us. Let the ducks figure it out and BAM 'EM as they come in for their final approach!!! It's pretty exhilarating and seems to make for some close in shooting.