We have a 6 bird/daily bag limit on ducks here, and now a 5 bird limit on Canada geese. Since Rowdy (my 3 year old Lab) and I hunt "solo" now-a-days, I am satisfied with 3 or 4 drake mallards, and 1 or 2 big geese. But as I usually hunt rivers and farm ponds/flooded corn fields- if we miss picking up a cripple, I count that against my daily bag-

I would rather take 3 male mallards cleanly in range with 4 shells (and a M12) then shoot up a box of expensive steel loads to bag a limit of 6 ducks. Don't laugh, I've been an invited guest on a few hunts where that shell to bagged birds ratio is a frequent event.

Last edited by Run With The Fox; 01/09/19 02:28 PM.
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..