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I guess my true bucket list duck hunt took place last year. Wife, myself and youngest daughter met up for a week on the prairie. Totally DIY, we were the scouts, guides, callers and dog handlers. We struggled at times but, in the end, we shot ‘em hard. We stayed in a cramped motel, fixed our own meals and processed the birds. I wouldn’t trade that hunt for the finest lodge.
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I'd be happy with a good flooded timber hunt for mallards. Coastal Alaska for a mixed bag would be fun.
" It ain't dead.As long as there's one cowboy taking care of one cow,it ain't dead ! " Monte Walsh
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One of the bucket list hunts I had was early fall up in Sask for geese. 3 of us went in sept of 2006 for 10 days of snows. Stayed at a b& b, never had any access problems at all and made a point of allways asking for permission. we would scout late afternoon for early set up and getting access. Load the truck for an early start.we had a pile of shells and sock decoys, and 3 layout blinds. Shot about 200 geese mostly snow and blues, 2 doz specs and 4 canadas. At 11: 00 am we'd pickup for the day and hit some abandoned farmsteads for a walk to shoot huns the 3 of us about tagged out on huns. Farmers were plain glad to see us and a couple times we were invited to dinner. We made a big bunch of goose jerky for field snacks and another group staying there were fishing gave us a big bag of walleye fillets and our hosts at the b & b brought us a big bag of garden produce. We ate like kings, cleaned geese and partridge like serfs, drank Canadian beer and were showered with Canadian hospitality. Cost us each about 1000 bucks Canadian. It was a trip of a.lifetime for me. Mb
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It is hard to beat a flooded green timber hunt. I have been lucky to partake of this for about 20 years. We considered our first timber hunt a “bucket list” hunt, but we just kept going. Be built a lot of memories in the timber.
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Did a trip to central Oklahoma 2 years ago and the numbers of lesser Canadas and mallards were jaw dropping. We hunted winter wheat and harvested peanut fields and shot limits every day.
" It ain't dead.As long as there's one cowboy taking care of one cow,it ain't dead ! " Monte Walsh
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For me - easily this 1. Flooded timber ducks down south 2. Big ag field Canadian geese 3. Did snows once - would love to do it again
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Not a bucket list guy but, like Teal, an open field giant Canada/big orange-legged Mallard hunt would be fine. That said, in my limited experience duck hunting the small puddlers like teal and woodies rank high. After getting a Woody pair for a mount, I quit taking them — pure beauty in flesh, blood, and feathers — and just not enough of them around here.
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