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1st Duck Limit

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.  

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