ever duck hunted with a trad bow?

[Mudd]

If I get the chance you can bet I'll be trying for a goose or two this year.

It just sounds like a blast.

God bless,Mudd

[PAPA BEAR]

its a lot of fun mudd i will pretty much bet the house on that...another thing we used to do is spot and spook them dang nutria.them suckers are hard to put the sneak on.they always have things after them so i can just imagine how jumpy they are while feeding in a field.in the water they are easy targets but on land they go into a totally different zone.beaver with a rat tail.

[silvertip73]

Just watched Brooks Johnson hunt geese with his bow on the sportsmans channel.  Shot a couple!

[xtrema312]

no, I like duck and goose jerky way to much to risk a miss.  It is better than venison in that form.

[Mike Vines]

Down in Missouri, don't you have a bunch of Snow Geese?  I have yet to hunt them, but they are on my list.  All my gun buddies that go to Texas every year say the "Hot Lunch Program" is the best time to get them, and they come in by the thousands.  The hot lunch program, from what I'm told, is when the farmer's are spreading manure on the fields, and the snow's land in there to eat.

If you guys are wanting to have a great time, try doing any wing shooting with a bow.  It's an awesome time.

[buckster]

No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night!  

[greyghost]

When stationed at Corpus Christi, TX (1980-1983) on the I&I Staff there I was lucky to have hunted the Kings Ranch and some duck hunting with the recurve along with fellow gun hunters. They were great guys and always gave me first shot (flu-flu's) and then they followed up with a gun kill. Really had a blast.

[kahunter]

I should have qualified that statement about not being hard with 1) if you are a good shot(which I am not!), and 2) if you get the perfect decoy setup where they right in on top of you.  Of course that rarely happens, at least on the hunts I have been on.  

Geese would be a blast for sure.  One of my life goals is to kill a pheasant with a bow.  a duck or goose would be right up there too.  I have a long ways to go in the accuracy department though.

[Mike Vines]

Originally posted by kahunter:
and 2) if you get the perfect decoy setup where they right in on top of you.  Of course that rarely happens, at least on the hunts I have been on.  
 

It's simply basic when duck hunting.  They land into the wind, so set up with the wind at your back, and leave a landing zone in the middle of your decoys right infront of you.  Make it so that is the only spot there is for them to land, and they will.  If you do it wrong, and they land and swim in, you could shoot them off the water, but where is the fun in that?  Wait till they swim close enough, and jump them up.  They also take off into the wind (atleast they catch air to get up) offering you an awesome shot opportunity.  It is actually a really fun time.  If your anything like me, you will have way more misses than hits, but each miss is a learning opportunity.  Try it, you'll love it.

[Ragnarok Forge]

I am getting better but it is going really slow.  I am working in my blacksmith shop on a bunch of knife blanks I made a while back.  I can't even hold onto a blade to forge it right now.  I am gonna be sucking at shooting my bows come the spring 3D shoots.

[bloodyarrow]

Just got back from hunting with misty morning outfitters in kansas everyone but me was carry a shotgun I had my Brackenbury we were hunting geese and ducks. I made some beleavers out the gunners

I will never forget the sound of that thump when my blunt caught up to the blue wing teal I stalked and jumped off a small pond.  I was fourteen and no one would believe I got it with my bow out of the air.  I have gotten geese circling a field looking for food, and jump shooting ducks and geese floating rivers out of a canoe.  I have not had much luck on fast flying passing birds.  I keep threatening to only hunt birds and the only deer that I would shoot would be the ones that got between me and the pheasants and turkeys, but my back and legs tell me that would have been more practical when I was younger and healthier.  There are times when the area rivers have more birds on them the marshes and what can be so hard about sitting in my kevlar Mad River with the back rests on the seats.  Next year, we will have some adventure afloat.

[Sam McMichael]

Hell, I can't hit 'em with a shotgun!

[chopx2]

Originally posted by Sam McMichael:
Hell, I can't hit 'em with a shotgun!

That is the best reason of all to use a bow...built in excuse  :D

[Mike Vines]

Originally posted by Sam McMichael:
Hell, I can't hit 'em with a shotgun!

that's why you give them up, and start enjoying the hunt more.