Archery for waterfowl
 

I was watching the outdoor channel the other day when a show came on where a guy was hunting ducks in the water with a bow. I checked the laws in my state and what do you know, its legal in Illinois. Now that got me thinking and now I'm wondering if any of you have ever tried hunting waterfowl with archery gear? I don't mean the occasional potshot at a stupid bird, I mean setting the decoys out and shooting at what lands.

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Not yet but I have thought about it for geese! That would be so cool to bag a limit of geese with your bow.

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Wounder how many arrows a person might loose??

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Traditional equipment and cedar arrows. They will float but it would be a helluva, walk/boattrip around to pick them all up...I'll stick with my shotgun for now.:D

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:D lmao. I couldn't afford an afternoon hunt.

Are you talking about shooting them on the ground or while they're airborne?

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Foofoo arrows and bird pionts will not go to far. I have killed a few birds with my bow. WAS a bet took a ton of shoots lot of flushes to finaly kill 3 birds. I think ducks would be eazyer than upland game birds.At least you get to see them coming and get ready.I do not hunt ducks at all but I would try to bow them.May just have to do this next year :}

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ELKINMTCWB, I do hunt waterfowl. Do you think that a Foofoo arrow with bird points keep enough speed and have enough KE for waterfowl. I don't know? But I do know that both ducks and geese are tough birds to knock out of the air/kill with anything but the best shotgun loads. I was thinking along the lines of a big expandable broadhead, and a very fast arrow? Don't carbon arrows float too?

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Alright guys one thing I found very interesting is that carbon arrows float!

Last year me and a buddy tried it. We are going to do it again this year. I only got to goa couple times and didn't get any shots. However, my friend lives on the lake and he got 5 geese. His average shot was about 40 yards. Two were a "Two-fer" He blew through one and stuck the second one a little way behind it. ANd his best shot was 45 yards out of the air. The arrow blew right through and was floating behind it about 50 yards in the water. All I got was a muskrat. But he was walking and at 70 yards. (I needed the fly tying material) Hopefully I will get more time to go this year. It is fun times. Ducks are a little trickier though. We havn't tried them yet. :D;)

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I don't think flu-flus would work to well on geese and ducks either. They are tough.

We used about any broadhead we had laying around, but mainly gators and tekans.

We used Bowtech Patriot and Extreme with ICS 400 carbon arrows.

One was shooting 280 and the other 295.

Yep, carbons float:D

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i guess u guys call them fu-fu arrows. but they dont go that far do to there fletchin which is BIG but they do decrease ur accuracy