Next Year....What will you do different!

[fatlab]

Duck hunting expensive.
Taking kids Priceless.

a good time was had by all. Glad we got one group of Gadwall to commit. It was a mid day hunt with low expectation

 

[HaydenHunter]

Oh yeah I will be buying more Sitka , I know but remember You get what you pay for.

Truly what is meant by the expression "buy once, cry once". With savvy purchases while the stuff is on sale the pain is not so bad.

 

[robberelite96]

More hunts taking my wife and son. Also getting the new pup some birds!

For now, onto sausage making and fishing!

 

[Billy hill]

I will get more of my reloading done pre season. Hit the first 2 months harder.

 

[Wings Cupped]

I am investigating BOSS 3/5s.

If I assume a limit of birds per box of shells with steel. Which I did better than that some trips but right up to the edge on others. That means that I would have to kill a limit of birds with 13 shells vs 25 to make it come out even financially. But when I think of the number of waterswats It may actually achieve that.

In addition, I think of the number of times I feathered birds but they did not fall. Ot ones that fell that pulled the ole submarine trick and were not retrieved. The extra $100 may actually be worth it.

Hmmmm........

I use the 3s in my 16 Ga and have had good success.

 

[Wings Cupped]

Take what Ive learned this season at the dairy.
Relocate and add new blinds.
BBQ less mouse houses
Let less large humans lean back on my duck chair.
Camoflage the blind as if I were not lazy!
Shoot otholes more than once a year.
Shall not covet thy neighbors ducks and geese.

 

[PnwChrome]

I am investigating BOSS 3/5s.

If I assume a limit of birds per box of shells with steel. Which I did better than that some trips but right up to the edge on others. That means that I would have to kill a limit of birds with 13 shells vs 25 to make it come out even financially. But when I think of the number of waterswats It may actually achieve that.

In addition, I think of the number of times I feathered birds but they did not fall. Ot ones that fell that pulled the ole submarine trick and were not retrieved. The extra $100 may actually be worth it.

Hmmmm........

I am contemplating the same shells boss#5 , I am thinking the extra coat should pan out or come close, between water swating cripples, and watching ducks sail off after being hit. It's just so hard to pull the trigger with boss prices.

 

[Billy hill]

I would like to offer up a day to get a few more WA hunters started in reloading. I have enough supplies to start 2 or 3 hunters a couple boxes each. I cant give the components away but am willing to at actual cost them. Bismuth #4 12 ga 1oz. 2 3/4 dm me if interested western wa area.

 

[Honkerclan08]

I am contemplating the same shells boss#5 , I am thinking the extra coat should pan out or come close, between water swating cripples, and watching ducks sail off after being hit. It's just so hard to pull the trigger with boss prices.

I’ve shot Boss for the last 3 years. 3in 3 shot and have been impressed. It hits the birds good. The ammo world is crazy right now. Boss is more but compared to how expensive bad loads are. I don’t mind paying a little extra.

 

[NWh2ofowlr]

Probably try some dimensional changes on my permanent blinds and try to brush them out better or differently. Some new clubs have started near where I hunt and they seem to hunt daily and all day. The sheer pressure they are now placing on the birds in my area has really smartened them up and made them blind and decoy shy. Going to have to change my game up some.