MIssissippi Opener Results

[legends of the lower mars]

Down here on the coast: 1 snow, 2 mottled's, 2 woodies, 1 mallard and three teal betweem the two of us. Not too bad of a hunt.

[matador1]

Birds were there when we got there, bad sign. Mixed bag, one snow, two specks, 1 canada,3 greenheads, three teal, one bluebill and one smilin' mallard hen. Slow but hey beats the alternative.

[DUCK-HUNT]

Public Land:
OPENING DAY
2 hunters:
8 greenheads
4 gadwall
DAY 2
4 hunters
3 greenheads
15 gadwall
We need some more cold weather!!!!

[timberhunter]

12 woodies

[rjohnson]

12 woodies

Man I was in town. Guess the boat was full huh?

[Dr. B]

I managed to kill my limit in 45 minutes. My Lord, they were coming in like flys! A little quiet quacks to get their attention and darn if they didn't circle once and come in wings locked and feet down! I missed the 1st 5 I shot at I was so excited! I finally got with the program and started busting them. I even got my first band today!!!!















Crap, alarm clock just went off. Hope you guys had fun over there! My son did kill a doe yesterday however and that was awesome!

Dr. B
Montgomery

[legends of the lower mars]

Congrats Dr. B on your first band! I've been hunting 27 years and still haven't taken a banded bird! Guess that's how it goes...

[RedEyed Duck]

Glad you most of you fellas are having good hunts. We knocked down 8 yesterday and were able to bring 6 of em out. NO mallards Had vehicle trouble toady and have to straighten that out. Good luck the rest of the season!

[torch]

Gadwall Hell!!!!!!!!!!!

[savethehens]

Friday,
Public Land:
3 Hunters
9 green heads
2 hens
1 maganzer (we had to get the jitters out)

Great hunt go held up trying to get to the spot didnt get the until 7:45 and it was on after that but we could not hit anything could have been out of there in a hour but with poor shooting we sat there until 11.

Sat.,
skunked

Sun.
Went to another hole we go to and guess what OOSSSSSSers in the hole straight out of South Carolina. In the boat we left for us the night before.
went to our back up hole good thing I took my boat but still got skunked.

[feather]

Motor wouldn't crank Thur. nite, worked on it til midnight and gave up..so missed the opener...got it fixed and hit the public ramp at 4:30 Sat. morning and launched as the only boat there. Got set up and had a limit with three greenheads, two wood ducks, and two gads by 10. On the way in I had a little trouble w/ the motor again and two boats passed me going in so I settled for a secondary hole. Funny thing is these were the only boats we saw or heard until ten and then counted SEVEN boats coming out...five boats entered the WMA prior to 4:30....what's the deal? Just outlaws? What do ya'll think? Everyone in there had to come past me to get back to where they launched..I would have seen them if they had come down through there at a legal time. My son got a greenhead and prepared an outstanding hot breakfast in the boat about 8:30. Had a wonderful hunt with the ducks working well, only making one pass before a little quacking turned every group and they bellied up right in front of us. We only had one group of mallards that smelled a booger and bugged out on us. We obviously shot like crap but had a good, good time!

[flare_king]

Fri-
5 hunters
16 Mallards
4 Gadwall
1 Ringneck
1 Snow

Sat-
5 Hunters
4 Gadwall

Sun-
5 Hunters
2 Mallards

Had my brand new Franchi, did great Friday. Saturday morning on the second shot it jammed. I got the shell out then the bolt wouldn't close. Got back to camp took the gun apart got it fixed (so I thought). Went back this morning, fired 2 shots, same thing happened. Taking it back to Surplus City in the morning, which is where I bought it just over a month ago.

[chopper30]

Wasn't as good for me as years past, mainly due to lack of water. It also didn't help that our levee blew out under one of the pipes sometime between when I checked the field Wednesday morning and Friday morning, and we were losing more water than our pump was pumping. Had to hunt places the wind wasn't right, and try to scrap it out.

Managed 17 ducks Friday:
4 mallards
4 gadwalls
1 widgeon
8 green wings

Saturday: 12 ducks, 7 geese:
2 mallards
2 gadwalls
1 widgeon
7 green wings
1 spec and 5 snows/blues

Sunday: 15 ducks, 12 geese:
9 mallards
1 pintail
5 green wings
3 specs and 9 snows/blues

Maybe next weekend when we have some water........

[Duck Sniper]

friday:
7 hunters . . . 42 ducks
18 mallards
24 teal
0 crap ducks
out about 9:45 a.m....would have been quicker, but we had to get reassociated with shooting a gun.
Great hunt....will post pics later.
ds

[QuakenTimber]

3 Hunters:

11 Gadwalls
1 Teal
1 Shoveler
1 Hooded Maganzer

Never shot at a greenhead...looks like some folks did though..