ORIGINAL: Chris_H
ORIGINAL: SwampCollie
Thats why I stopped hunting in SC Chris. Lots of birds in lots of places we couldn't hunt... and lots of people with 3.5" shells trying to kill them 100 yards high. Its a very frustrating place to hunt unless you have a lot of money or are shooting released chicken mallards.
I couldn't have said it better myself. The solution to hunting areas you're not allowed to hunt is to hunt the navigable water that is close to it. A lot of people have this same thinking: most of those people are rubberheads and skybusters (ya know, the people that ride in front of your spread 5 minutes before shooting time, flush your ducks out of your spread, setup a hundred yards away from you and then throw steel at ducks working your spread [:@]
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Oh yeah... know it all too well. The spots that are on low approaches to impoundments aren't any big secret either.
I got tired of dropping ducks over the dykes and not even being able to send my dog to retreive them. I lost more birds in SC in two years of hunting than I think I have lost in all the other 20 I've been waterfowling... that includes VA, AR, MO, NC and MD.
Got tired of seeing red flannels shirtted rednecks in boston whalers trying to kill ducks.