Duck Hunting 2

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Missouri Duck

Wetlands

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Missouri Wetlands Details

If what is read here appeals then continue as the level of detail we drill down to about our duck hunting (mostly in Missouri) makes for far more web pages than most will review.

What is left to be seen includes aerial photos and line maps of our wetlands, pictures of the blinds and the water they overlook, many success pictures and letters from our hunters. Just about anything about our duck hunting we could take a picture of is posted.

A blind on yet to be flooded crop field being covered with this year's rippy grass by Bruce Johnson who works the wetlands hard both spring (drain/plant) fall (cover blinds/flood).

Smart Weed and Japanese Millet are two examples of what we plant within the wetlands outside of flooded crop fields.

Hunters

The Association hunter with duck hunting as his primary interest is composed of two not very surprising major groups, the resident and non-resident duck hunter. And, amongst all waterfowl hunters it is duck hunting over that of goose hunts that is the drawing card.

This is further enhanced that most duck hunters in the Association put enough goose in their bag incidental to a duck hunt they concentrate on the harder to achieve drake only days.

The other facet that distinguishes between self guided duck hunters and all the other membership hunt disciplines is that waterfowl hunters as a group are on par with our archery deer hunters for having the highest renewal rate.

It appears that waterfowl and archery deer hunters are the most seasoned of all hunters through the high failure rate of their disciplines of choice. Just as the deer hunter seeks to increase the hunt satisfaction through the bow rather than the more effective firearms season the waterfowl hunter seeks more drakes than limits. Further comparison is the archery deer hunter seeks the true trophy rack and the duck hunter is more likely to seek drakes only.

That level of seasoning has the additional effect that once those hunters experience our approach to DIY hunts and in this case our Missouri wetlands and duck blinds they return for years of enjoyment of making their own self guided duck hunts. These hunters return due to the quality of the wetlands habitat and the chances for successful duck hunts are higher than any other duck hunting option that exists.

These characteristics in the most general of terms are the traits that define our duck hunting and hunter members.

Highlighted in this series of pictures is a group of four members that joined in succession with each being sponsored into the Association by a current member. This is the most common method (90+%)of entry. The hunter applying for membership without sponsorship is the minority largely due to our not widely advertising our existence. These hunters are also typical of most as they hunt by themselves or in any combination up to four. After four hunters per party it becomes difficulty to coordinate actions.

One twist these group of hunters enjoy is to have a friendly competition as to who can harvest a banded leg and or neck snow goose. Al shown below is leading with two neck bands and one leg only banded goose.

More about our goose hunting in Missouri and Kansas.

Continue this article to read about non-resident duck hunters.