Duck shooters

**Maha** · 15th May 2010, 18:10

Come on, help me out here guys. I need some answers.
Firstly, I was on the Northern Motorway today and, ahead of me was a car towing, what I thought was trailer load of shit. As it transpired, it was towing a 12' tinny painted green (cos thats looks like water

) and totally smothered, or should I say, strategically placed branches from last weekends section clean up.
Is this supposed to fool the Ducks?
How hard can it be to fool a Duck?
Do Ducks need to fooled?

If this person/s were to have that very same boat (unpainted and unbranched) out on the same lake or pond two weeks ago, would the Ducks have flown over it?
Why would butching it up make any difference to the Ducks?

On the subject of camouflage, what the hell?
Again, would a Duck recognise you from two weeks ago if you were in normal clothes?
Spotted a Duck fooler chap today wearing full bodied Camo gear....
Now, yes he looked a dick, but that aside, if he was not wearing all that shit, would the Ducks say '' fuck lookout do fly over him hes got a gun''!....im guessing not, because Ducks dont think like that, or do they?

And dont get started on 'blokes in mai mai's' I will save that till next year.

**rainman** · 15th May 2010, 18:42

They're not very smart. But they must be reasonably cautious. Otherwise there would be none of them left.

**Smokin** · 15th May 2010, 18:45

Ducks have a very keen eye for things that are out of place, if the pond looks different from pre duck shooting season they will avoid it like the plague. Also movement is a big no-no, you must make like a tree.

**mattian** · 15th May 2010, 19:25

most birds do have particularly good eye-sight. I have heard people say that chickens dont have good eyesight. Thats so not true!!! we used to keep chickens and, I would often watch a chicken sprint about 10-15 meters across semi long grass and pluck a worm right out of the ground.

**Owl** · 15th May 2010, 19:41

Must be something in it Maha, cause as soon as the season starts, the local ducks come to town and often make refuge in the paddock over the road from work.

**Motu** · 15th May 2010, 19:58

Dangerous things ducks....that's why they have to be so care full with the camouflage and hiding so they don't get spotted.You should hear my Zimbabwe boss on duck hunters - he's had to shoot and kill dangerous animals and humans just to stay alive,shooting ducks is like beating up 4 year old kids to him.

But what pisses me off is the waste.When I was a kid all my family kept chooks,for the eggs,and having chicken was a rare treat....Xmas mainly.But the May holidays was about having duck and pheasant - everything my uncle shot was eaten.Now they just dump hundreds of birds.

**Dave Lobster** · 15th May 2010, 20:04

Wouldn't it be more 'sporting' to shoot at things that can shoot back?

**Mom** · 15th May 2010, 20:04

Originally Posted by Motu

.Now they just dump hundreds of birds.

See this is what I struggle with. I am a meat eater and dont have issues with killing animals that have been raised to feed us. I am a girl though and would not want to take part in the killing of the animal, though I have butchered them shortly after they were killed.

To deliberately kill something for the sheer hell of it upsets me. I have eaten duck that has been shot...

full of little bits of shot, real teeth threateners. I have eaten wild goat, I have eaten wild deer. By all means kill for food, but to kill for the hell of it is not healthy in my mind.

Disclaimer: I am a certified softie.

**Dave Lobster** · 15th May 2010, 20:08

Originally Posted by Mom

By all means kill for food, but to kill for the hell of it is not healthy in my mind.

Didn't John Key have to apologise for saying something like this earlier in the week??

**Mom** · 15th May 2010, 20:13

Originally Posted by Dave Lobster

Didn't John Key have to apologise for saying something like this earlier in the week??

NO, I belive it was for saying that he would proably be on the menu if he was at lunch with Tuhoe.

**Maha** · 15th May 2010, 20:21

Originally Posted by rainman

They're not very smart. But they must be reasonably cautious. Otherwise there would be none of them left.

Ducks or the shooters?

**Pixie** · 16th May 2010, 08:29

Wise advice:

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**nosebleed** · 16th May 2010, 08:46

Originally Posted by Maha

Ducks or the shooters?

Bugger. See what happens when you sleep in. Beaten

**meteor** · 16th May 2010, 08:52

I reckon ducks have more brains than some give them credit for... Seems that all the inner city parks and reserves are full of them at the moment! Spotted over a hundred on the side of the local estuary. Come the end of of duck season they'll all go back to the farms, rivers and open country. Go the ducks!