I think it's been pushed to the back burner again. Every year we talk about shutting down public areas at noon or 1 P.M. Every year an arguement insues. If we as waterfowlers are truly serious at improving the quality of our hunts, I believe this is something that could be a huge 1st step and cost absolutely noting to implement. The more I read about it, the more I see we're missing the boat. Studies have been done many times over and the results are ALWAYS positive.
If someone wants, I can dig the data back up and post it. We continue to be laughed at by neighboring states. I'm sure that people are going to post up a variety of reasons why this won't work for them. That...there in... lies the problem.... It isn't suppose to work for you. It's suppose to work for the ducks. If we had an early closure trial like just doing it Monday thru Friday and let the kids hunt all day on the weekends, that would be a starting point and allow us to collect some data. If you want to hunt afternoons during the week.....Find a field,stream,pond on some private ground and have at it.
Other states have done the ground work and provided numbers that truly are mind boggling. Instead of us getting some nasty weather that blows in a bunch of ducks and we kill them for a day or 2.....lets kill them all week and all month. If the ducks can just get some adequate time each day to be left alone and loaf, there is a far better chance of them sticking around day after day after day. I'm sure anyone in Missouri just loves the way we operate. They can't wait for the ducks to show up in Iowa. We blast the heck out of them and food is scarce. They know darn well, when the Mallards make it to Iowa, their only a day or 2 away from moving through and hitting what is fast becoming.....the promised land for waterfowl.
We'll never know for sure until we try it.
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If someone wants, I can dig the data back up and post it. We continue to be laughed at by neighboring states. I'm sure that people are going to post up a variety of reasons why this won't work for them. That...there in... lies the problem.... It isn't suppose to work for you. It's suppose to work for the ducks. If we had an early closure trial like just doing it Monday thru Friday and let the kids hunt all day on the weekends, that would be a starting point and allow us to collect some data. If you want to hunt afternoons during the week.....Find a field,stream,pond on some private ground and have at it.
Other states have done the ground work and provided numbers that truly are mind boggling. Instead of us getting some nasty weather that blows in a bunch of ducks and we kill them for a day or 2.....lets kill them all week and all month. If the ducks can just get some adequate time each day to be left alone and loaf, there is a far better chance of them sticking around day after day after day. I'm sure anyone in Missouri just loves the way we operate. They can't wait for the ducks to show up in Iowa. We blast the heck out of them and food is scarce. They know darn well, when the Mallards make it to Iowa, their only a day or 2 away from moving through and hitting what is fast becoming.....the promised land for waterfowl.
We'll never know for sure until we try it.
Opinions????