Anyone Archery Duck hunt? Need help

[RunsUpRiver]

Arrows to stay inside the bird?

I was talking to an old timer today who said he used to drill a small hole in his wood arrowshafts and place a small piece of piano wire or brad nail through the shaft about an inch past the rear of the broadhead. He would cut the wire so it would stick out of the shaft about 1/8th of an inch on either side. He would of course make sure that it didnt contact the bow at full draw.

He did this to help make sure the arrow would stay attached to the duck or goose, and not pass through. There was plenty of punch and cutting and the arrow would encounter a lot of drag on the meat and bones. If the bird managed to try to fly away, it had the added disadvantage of the arrow hanging from it, keeping it on the ground.

He said this was his method after years of waterfowl hunting with a bow, that brought home the most meat.

Anyone have arrow in/ arrow out stories to share?

Thanks!

Dean

[Izzy]

How bout using a fishing rig.I use a Shakespeare reel and I can shoot pretty accurately out to 15 yards with my heavy glass arrows from a 52lb LB.They can easily be flu flu fletched.You can mount a broadhead th them but can also get trocar tips that Im sure will blow through ducks.

[Rick P]

Fishing rigs can get you into trouble in waters that are closed to bow fishing, are too heavy and you don't need to have a string on the arrow.

OK Use whatever shaft you would for small game, I like the gold tip 5575, they are cheap, strait and tough. Any stamped broad head works great you want top cut a BIG hole, ducks are tons harder to kill than you think. 3 and 4 Fletch arrows don't fit the legal definition of Flu Flu in some ares. What I use is 6 51/2 inch shields they are faster than full feathers but still don't travel far enough to be a safety issue. When they hit the water they float strait up and down with the fletching waving in the air like a flag easy to find and retrieve. Boat regs apply to any boat your using to hunt from and are not limited to "sculling" or "duck boats".

Learn too call and put out a set, learn to call and put out a set, learn to call and put out a set!

Even the shot gunners I hunt with from time to time agree that taking a duck on the water with a bow is fair chase. Look carefully at your regs ares closed to shot gunners do to there proximity to homes, roads and people in general will be open to you, it's tough calling in birds close enough for an archery harvest when they have been pounded by shot gunners all day.

Good luck you're taking your first steps into one of the funnest areas of bow hunting there is!

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Howard Hill shot a duck in the water with just his deer hunting arrow.