Stute Slap wrote:Fun reading these posts.
I don't really duck hunt in MN anymore - mainly have the limited time I do have in other areas, and crow hunting is the ultimate for me.
But it's funny, when I think about MN opener and not hunting I didn't miss not shooting ducks last saturday - I missed going out drinking with my buddies, seeing the old places where I grew up and all the hunting I used to do there, all the old memories and not the hunting. (and we used to shoot a lot of ducks)
Kind made me sad that old tradition for me is probly gone, I had a lot of fun over the years. If you told me 18 years ago I wouldn't hunt MN opener I would have laughed in your face.
My buddy and I were chatting about that this weekend. Once my grandpa passes I could see our duck camp tradition unraveling and the guys selling the place. If the tradition is gone I'll probably skip MN opener which is something I never thought would even cross my mind years ago. Not so much for the lack of success, typically we do pretty good, more so because I get sick of seeing all the dummies violating. I try not to let it bother me but it has wore on me in the recent years.
This year I saw a guy running full speed down a river with his motor and his buddy was up front shooting ducks that were jumping. They had their kids with them which means we have future generations of knuckleheads in the making. This is an area that we hardly used to see a soul but apparently the morons are expanding their zone. I am sure the popular public areas were quite the spectacle.
I will probably do a week or two in Sask early and then hunt the late season in MN. I don't seem to run into many fools in late season, probably because they are sitting in a tree somewhere waiting on a donkey, most likely over a corn pile.