Damned if you don’t when dealing with ducks

The one thing I have learnt after being a duck hunter for more than 50 years is that you have to be prepared to adapt and change your hunting ways to be continually successful. We all have our special methods to hunt ducks. While many hunters attend big shoots on the numerous swamps that abound in our country, you have to be ready to share the waterways with plenty of like-minded hunters. In my younger days I attended shoots on places like Mansfield Swamp, Greens Lake, Dowdle Swamp and Barren Box Swamp. These are just a few of the locations I have hunted over.

These days I steer clear of the big swamps, much preferring the solitude of a backwater where I am happy to set