The ducks are getting away after being shot!
This weekend, myself and 4 hunting buddies went out to Ft. Cobb lake in SW Oklahoma. We hunted last night and camped out. I shot a green wing teal about 30 seconds before the stop shooting time. Today, it started out slow. All that was coming in were singles. We did shoot a couple of beautiful mallards. One was huge! His feathers were very pretty with three of the curly feathers on his tail. Anyways, we didn't have any luck after that. A mallard hen came in all by herself and was right over the top of the blind. We were all blasting away and it even did a couple of flips in the air before gliding off and crashing down in the woods behind us. I looked for 45 minutes and couldn't find it. As soon as I got back to the blind, another big mallard came in. We started blasting and feathers were flying. It too went back into the woods and again I looked forever and couldn't find it! A bit later, two teals came in and we shot them both down in the water. They both started swimming away and were obviously injured to the point that they couldn't fly. But we fired numerous finishing rounds at them and they just kept swimming across the huge pond we were hunting on. By the time I made it over there in my waders, they were hiding somewhere. I looked for an hour and never saw a trace of either one. I'm wondering where they went and what their plans for the future were. I've hunted ducks for almost 4 years and never lost a duck I shot. Today I lost four. How often does this happen to you guys? I went through two and a half boxes of ammo, shooting like crazy at singles. My buddies used about the same amount. We only have three ducks to show for about $150 in ammo. A couple weekends ago, we brought home 7 ducks and I used less than 20 rounds. Pretty crazy weekend.