Mallards dry feeding

[torch]

with snow geese? I have never seen this unless we were froze up. The last two days the mallards have been in the fields feeding with the geese. We killed 18 mallards yesterday and all of them had mud on the tops and bottom of the bills, and you guessed it they were full of corn.

[woody]

Thats the way we hunt them in North Dakota sometimes. Never seen it happen down here.

[tombstone]

Funny that I come back from lunch to this post. I talked to two people at lunch who said the same thing. Tons of mallards in dry fields with the snow geese. One report was in northern bolivar county and the other from northern coahoma.

[rampole]

Same thing in several places in Tunica and Tallahatchie County the last few days. I watched several thousand fly back and forth from water to a corn field all morning yesterday. They wouldn't get much higher than 10 ft off the ground as they flew back and forth. Reminded me a lot days spent afield in Nodak and Canada.

[Hambone]

I made similar observations in Coahoma County while the snow was on the ground last week. The mallards and snows left the corn when the snow and ice disappeared.

[duckter]

Why is it that we cannot successfully hunt dry fields down south? This is the first I've heard of ducks in the area doing this.

[torch]

You can hunt them in a dry field, you just have to set up in one they are using.

[feather]

Saw about 200 in Tally doing it last week....gone now

[JaMak84]

I don't understand why they don't dry feed more often here. I've been told all my life by biologist that ducks are, for lack of a better word, lazy. They're only going to fly as far south as they have to in order to feed, they prefer water 18" or less so they don't have to work so hard.... It would seem to me that dry feeding would offer the most available food source for the least amount of energy.

[Faithful Retrievers]

We have get into them a couple times a year in a dry field and its awesome. No doubt one of the easiest way to hunt them.

[Wingman]

In the 99-00 season, I had a deep water spot during a freeze up where we smacked the mallards. When you picked the birds up, they had mud on the bottoms of their feet where they had been feeding in a frozen soybean field not too far away.

[Anatidae]

Have 8 dozen field mallard shells, 12 honker shells, 3 ground blinds and decoy deployment system for field hunting - will travel on short notice.



Sorry - we don't have a 'Vortex'

[novacaine]

Have 8 dozen field mallard shells, 12 honker shells, 3 ground blinds and decoy deployment system for field hunting - will travel on short notice.



Sorry - we don't have a 'Vortex'

I like it when the ducks provide the VORTEX !

[olduckhunter]

You can hunt them in a dry field, you just have to set up in one they are using.

right there it is in black and white. back in the 50's in the bootheel of mo. mallards fed in cornfields by the thousands and thousands every afternoon. you could see the funnel from miles away. i hunted them back then in the fields and would shuck ears and lay them down a corn middle and lay down several yards away in that middle and cover up with my gun pointed down that middle. when they came they would hop scotch over each other to get to the corn. when enough got in the middle one shot and you had more than you could tote home. it was a sight to watch them come into a field. when i was 15 i shot a little late one afternoon but that's another story. how was i to know a game warden was watching the field?

[billjohnson]

I do it in OK, where I guide for a few weeks every year. It's about ruined me for hunting back here. We do it in peanut fields mostly but sometime in milo or corn. Nothing like 500 mallards bombing out of the sky on you in the middle of a dry field. Oh wait, I just remembered hunting in the woods about 30 years ago. Everybody should see ducks coming down through the timber and a tornado of them over you in a field once in their life. That makes me a pretty lucky man. I have been in on plenty of both!