fowlmind wrote:It is just another lost opportunity for MN. I have never understood why they have not had some kind of trade of for the nesting states. Either a couple of bonus teal to the regular daily limit or a couple of days added on to the regular season. If they are not going to take advantage of the season they should reconsider negotiating something with the feds. At least plant the seed for the future. Maybe Trent Lott can negotiate that for them.
Nershi wrote:
There are a lot less other species in the Southern states during their teal seasons.
there will be a lot of other species that get shot. (more than southern states teal seasons by a long shot).
Nershi wrote:get-n-birdy wrote:Other states have teal seasons. So why isn't there a big concern for them with mistake ducks?
Are Minnesotan duck hunters that much of a bunch of ignoramuses?
Most teal will be gone by the typical MN duck opener and it has nothing to do with YWD and Early Goose over water. .
Quack wrote:Nershi wrote:
There are a lot less other species in the Southern states during their teal seasons.
there will be a lot of other species that get shot. (more than southern states teal seasons by a long shot).
Actually, Cordts said at the Symposium that every state that participated in the 1965-67 experiment shot a combined 50% non-teal attempt average and some of the southern states were significantly worse than the northern states. I think the "best" state was Ohio with a 40% non-teal attempt rate.
The questions are: a) has anything changed and b) does it even matter, biologically speaking.
Some guys on the WI Fuge page cited experience from MO and TX that "mistake" birds are still very common.
Doesn't really sound like any major studies have been undertaken to evaluate this since the original experiment 50 years ago.
shnelson wrote:I didn't hunt more than four times last season, does that make me any less of a waterfowler?
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