(NorCal) Experienced duck hunter needed

[supercopjason]

I am from the Texas panhandle and got stationed at Beale AFB (30 mins north of Sacramento) 4 years ago. I never paid much attention to ducks until 2 years ago when my friend asked me to go. He had been duck hunting for 16 years and was an excellent caller. I have been trying to learn but must admit I suck horribly (I think it is sounding good but the ducks beg to differ). I am looking for an experienced duck hunter that can help me to learn the ways. What I can offer you is access to 10+ ponds, lakes, and streams that will not have a lot of people. There are only about 25 with hunting access and with 10 lakes it is extremly rare you see or hear someone while hunting. Any questions shoot me a PM. I am not looking for a guide just someone who wants a great place to hunt for fairly nothing and no long waits and is willing to take a new duck hunter out.


Requirements: you must have all licenses and stamps. You are required to attend a breifing to be allowed hunting access on base and purchase a $10 yearly base hunting license. For base hunting privledge you will have to be with me while you are on base and I will have to escort you both on and off. Your vehicle will need license/updated insurance. I am a game warden so no childish behavior and you must follow the rules.

 

[Mr Bernoulli]

If you would like to learn how to call decently a good thing to do is to pick up the Primos video, mastering the art of calling waterfowl. You can pick it up with a call or two depending on which pack you get. It is a great video and improved my waterfowl calling lots. Everyone also knows them Primos boys are legit callers. I think some of the best I have ever heard. Good luck to you.

 

[supercopjason]

My best friend is a champion caller and said I am a decent caller but when I would hunt with him I wouldnt pay much attention so I dont really know when to use the call. How to set up the decoys with the weather conditions or basic stuff.

 

[Capt. NW]

PM sent

 

[chas08]

I had the good fortune to hunt waterfowl in CA. when I was in the service in the mid 70's. I'm sure there are a lot of people who don't associate CA. with great hunting, but that was some of the best Duck hunting I have ever experienced. Your offer is very generous and If I weren't all the way down here in Texas I'd certainly interview for the job. Remember that sometimes, the best call, is no call at all

 

[MCgunner]

Yep, a lot of guys call too much. Talk to the birds, don't just sit there and call. IOW, you have to learn their movements, how they're reacting. And, there's a time to hail and high ball and a time to quack or chuckle. A hail call will spook if used at the wrong time.

I learned from an 8 track tape recorded off an LP record back in the day. LOL I'd be driving to College Station, 150 mile drive, to school listening to the tape and trying to mimic it with the call. There was no one around to bother that way. Room mates and dorm mates didn't appreciate the noise. LOL You get better with experience and only experience can teach you to read the duck's intentions and know how to talk to him. This is at least 50 percent of the fun of duck hunting IMHO. I'll kill out a limit sometimes if I limit early, unload, and just sit there and call and have fun when they're working well.

This is another thing. Especially late season, the birds are a lot tougher to call than early season. They do get wise to ya and decoy wise and wanna look you over from altitude a lot before they buy in. It can be tough late season and when the marsh has more'n a few hunters. Get 'em to commit and someone on the next pothole shoots just as they're comin'. Not much you can do about that.

It's a very addicting sport. I started at 14, around 1967, and have never tired of duck hunting. It's sort of a gentleman's sport in a way, the deeks, the calls, the dogs, the tradition about it. Lots of rednecks do it, including myself, but hey, they're gentleman rednecks. I've been addicted to it for a long time. Helps that I had a lot of public opportunities on the Texas coast over the years, too. It don't cost you a fortune down here for really good duck hunting.

 

[supercopjason]

MCgunner I know what you mean about other hunters. Thats what is so good about hunting here there is rarely a hunter even on the same lake. So far everyday there have been good spots that have not even been hunted.

Some of the pms I have got on other sites lead me to belive I may have misinterpreted myself. I have been duck hunting the last three seasons. I started learning to call late last season and have practiced. I have been told Im not that bad I just dont know when to use the calls. I dont hail and rarely use a comeback normally just whistle and quack with some feed chuckle mixed in. I have been hunting 3 times this year and have shot 7 this year which I dont think is too bad for early season but am wanting an educated hunting partner to learn from. I am not some rock that you have to teach everything too. I have been hunting for 20 years just not duck. Also I am a weapons instructor so please no pm's warning me about the safety of duck hunting.