2022 Waterfowl.

[retrieverman]

I got an invitation to duck hunt this morning with a buddy, his son in law, and the son in law’s brother, and I graciously declined due to knowing what a potential sh*t show it was going to be.
I wasn’t wrong. They hit the water at 4:30 this morning and came home with one quacker.

 

[meatGrinder]

First time I got skunked all season today. My ducks have all moved on.

 

[retrieverman]

First time I got skunked all season today. My ducks have all moved on.

Not surprising based on the Salt Plains count.

 

[Coach_1]

Been hunting ducks for a long time and shot my first ever pintail yesterday and man they are beautiful. Dropped him off in Walters at Wallhanger Taxidermy. Can’t wait till he’s finished.

 

[meatGrinder]

Congrats Coach!
I've never shot a pintail either, the only duck I haven't taken yet that's actually available in Oklahoma. No seaducks, ruddy, or cinnamon teal either but I'm not counting those lol.
Most of my old spots were tons of gads, mallards, and ringnecks. This year our new place was full of widgeon and redheads. I took a really nicely colored fat redhead to Warbird taxidermy in Piedmont.

Never shot a specklebelly goose either.

 

[Okie4570]

Been hunting ducks for a long time and shot my first ever pintail yesterday and man they are beautiful. Dropped him off in Walters at Wallhanger Taxidermy. Can’t wait till he’s finished.

Congrats! That's the only bird I've ever had mounted.

 

[Okie4570]

Went just for the sake of going this morning, saw very few. The way this season has gone, feels like we hit the jackpot lol.

 

[Hirschkopf]

My place has the potential for good duck hunting. Doubtful I’ll ever buy an out of state license to do so though. This spot looks to have promise; saw some ducks here during deer rifle season. At least there is plenty of water for deer and hogs.

 

[retrieverman]

My place has the potential for good duck hunting. Doubtful I’ll ever buy an out of state license to do so though. This spot looks to have promise; saw some ducks here during deer rifle season. At least there is plenty of water for deer and hogs.

That’s a great looking spot.
I have been buying the licenses and stamps to duck hunt for many years, and a few weeks ago was the first time I’ve hunted ducks since probably 2005 or so. As I said in an earlier post, I got invited to duck hunt with friends yesterday, but I declined and will the next time the guy asks too. I’m not a “duck hunter”, but I really enjoyed and took pride in doing it on my own place. My feelings about fishing are the same. I’m not going out of my way to load up and drive to a lake to fish, but I love to fish the river on my place.
I don’t know you but would encourage you to give fishing and duck hunting a try on your place. I bet you’ll feel differently about it afterwards.
I appreciate @Deer Slayer for encouraging me to start fishing and hunting morels a few years ago, because they’re now activities I enjoy and look forward to.

 

[Okie4570]

My place has the potential for good duck hunting. Doubtful I’ll ever buy an out of state license to do so though. This spot looks to have promise; saw some ducks here during deer rifle season. At least there is plenty of water for deer and hogs.

Send me a GPS pin and I'll let you know if there's anything on your pond .

That would be a great place for cellular game cam, still along way from AZ to Oklahoma for a duck though even if were covered with birds lol.