cstemig wrote:For some, tradition is more important than numbers....others, not so much. The tradition of hunting with the same people is important, but the location is not.
No one is knocking tradition. Traditions are great but tradition isn't the reason for that horrendous blind, that can only be attributed to incompetence.
Complete and utter incompetence.
Their blind looks like they took a section of scaffolding, set it at the edge of a backwater, that gets the most sun in the morning, and tied a camo sheet across it. The bright green bucket, really? Picking up a couple cans of spray paint and taking two minutes to camo up a bucket isn't worth your time? If I got invited to hunt a similar shit-show I'd tell them "thanks but no thanks" once we made it to the blind and grab a couple decoys and walk/wade to the end and hunt from the cattails. At least I'd have a chance of shooting one or two of the ten ducks we'd probably see that morning.
Their blind is so bad it actually pisses me off. Why? Because it represents these guys and how their mentality was created perfectly. These are the same type of dbags that affect waterfowl hunting in MN. These are the type of guys that go to rallies, symposiums and write letters when higher limits and more opportunities to shoot ducks are offered and scream 'No!' because we have dwindling duck numbers.
They think guys like me are greedy. The reality is I'm not the asshole, they're the assholes.
They're so incompetent and lazy that the only ducks they can shoot are a few retarded opening day wood ducks. Then they look at empty skies the rest of the season from their blinds. If they go out of state they are forced to hire a guide or freelance hunt from temporary blinds made daily and not a giant piece of crap visible from miles away, so they actual shoot something and they draw the conclusion, "MN has no ducks."
Nope, we have ducks....and we also have a shitload of incompetent and lazy hunters.