Top 5 MISTAKES New Duck Hunters Make
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In this video I cover the top 5 mistakes that I think new duck hunters make. These mistakes are easy to correct and learn from. Once new duck hunters correct these mistakes they will have more successful duck hunts in the long run.
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#1 mistake in my opinion is leaving trash, shells, etc behind...
Liam Diffee I go out to public land and pick up shells during the season as part of my community service! I usually come back with a full bucket of shells, and it’s annoying and dissapointing that people leave their garbage :(
Shit,you can make a lot of money selling used hulls on ebay.
America Rocks you got to think, majority won’t sell due to rust on the brass
A little steel wool will clean that right up.
Intentionally leaving them is not excusable. But I have lost some while dispatching cripples or brushing out some landed ducks. Depending on the color of the shell helps a lot. I have field and stream shells and they’re dark green which is incredibly hard to spot in water on land, especially if you’ve been moving around and not stationary.
I'm guilty of some of these, just started duck hunting this. Hope to improve greatly next season.
All great points. Another and my opinion only and I see it all the time at cabalas all the time you don’t need the most expensive gun , decoys and calls to get started.
Good decoys I would rank # 1.
your videos help me get through the tough times of not having anything to do
@outdoor limits just wanna say I love your videos, I have learned so much from you over the last year. I went from killing 10 a year to killing over 50 last year. Called in my first geese last year. Keep up the great work man
I'm new to duck hunting and I love your videos vary helpful! Keep it up
I’m going to try duck hunting this year for the first time. Just bought a Remington 870 express. Love the gun so far!
Jacob Kilgore This will be my first year also, I've had the same gun you have for 3 yrs but I just shot it for the first time two weeks ago and I love it as well. My dad keep a getting on me for not buying an automatic shotgun but at the time I bought it I just wanted to have one in my collection of deer and hog hunting rifles plus it was only $460. The more I get n2 waterfowl hunting I'll eventually get an automatic but for now I'll stay a die hard deer and hog hunter and part time duck hunter and use what I've got unless someone wants to buy me one😉
B-Rad Jeezy from Malibu I can believe that cuz I aint went yet but I fell in love Clay shooting with the youngster that's taking me with him for my first few hunts.Ive been tooting that mallard call the past 2 weeks since I bought it.
B-Rad Jeezy from Malibu I can't Wait! My buddy hunts public land but he knows the honey holes and he has a boat.
B-Rad Jeezy from Malibu Yeah he's been having me wanting to buy a good used jon boat . I've been finding very reasonable ones on marketplace and craigslist. If I wasn't trying to buy this 1980 chevy crew cab from my mechanic with a 454 in it,I had planned on buying me a lil 16' jon boat ,oh well I'll get one later, that chevy body is my dream truck but I wanted a 78' cuz it's my year but 80' is close enough. At least I'll have another truck to haul that boat when I do pull the trigger.
@@gogitr8904 stick with the pump. I can shoot mine about as fast as my buddies and kil more birds cause its helpful to take an extra split second on a missed shot to get 2nd right. Semi auto tends to just shoot vs correcting mistake.
Also here it gets freezing cold and we hunt water. Pump is easier to fix especially if you dont have a lighter or something to melt ice. Pump you can mortar to break loose to hunt. Know guys went home cause of frozen gun
Josh I feel like I ask to many questions sometimes even though you can really never ask to many questions. You have helped me out quite a bit just from your Waterfowl Wednesday videos.
I use a Winchester 101 O/U with 3” shells and it really is a nice break from my VersaMax some days... It may whack your middle finger with that trigger guard
I do have one question though. So you talked about like other hunters being next to you. I hunt right on a river but there is other people on the other side of the river what should i do? Anybody have any tips?
Where did u get the over under? For 130
You nail it Josh. #2 I believe is probably the mistake that's committed most often. I believe watching videos and TV shows might contribute to new hunters believing 65yd shots are a good choice because 2D videos look like the shots are that far. We set a decoy a 35yds and try never to shoot at anything outside of that. It gives a good reference and creates good shooting habits. JMO
Where did you find the over and under?
Every time I’ve asked someone about duck hunting near me they act offended and don’t want to talk about it. I first got a shotgun and wanted to go with a kid that went for years and he told me he only takes people that can shoot like what kind of crap is that. So I pretty much taught myself stuff since then I don’t ask people because they always want to act like things are secret
thank you this help a lot havn't when yet just studying
Good advice for new guys find an old timer someone that hunted during the market period of duck hunting learn there secrets
bubbahoss 1997 and then buy a punt gun !
@@christopherhutton8485 great for sky busting
Two things!
1: collaborate with flair and bobby
2: Make a Patreon for us to support you!
Ryan B Id love to see that to but he did make a video a while ago saying that he would probably never do a collaboration with the dux guys so I don’t know if he’s gonna change his mind but like I said I’d love to see that too
Why...they suck and bobby has one helluva bad case of date rape face.
America Rocks I would say Outdoor limits is better but I don’t think they suck
Connor Pennings Outdoors Do you know what video he said that in? I want to see what he said.
Willis Pautz it’s called: you asked some good questions q&a or something like that from 1 year ago
Like what you said about shooting birds up close.... Face is the place! Pass shooting is honestly the worst thing. How many birds have you seen land far out and not found??
Please tell me what I NEED to hunt legally. License, stamps, steel shot. Also, what shotguns are best and what shells to use.
I use Winchester drylok super still 3 in l like Remington shotguns
I’d use 12 gauge with 3 inch shells. And as for guns I use a stoeger m3500. Semi-automatic makes it easier but it’s not necessary you could use a pump. It’s also important to use a gun that you are comfortable using.
Good video! Cant wait for season! Early goose less than 1 month away! My excitement is surging!
Great advice for beginners and vets alike.
What is the best spread for a dozen decoys
For me, where I hunt on public land, walk-in, near Tulsa, OK, I HAVE to have my hen Mojo. Then, 3 Avian X flocked mallards, a hen and 2 drakes, 2 Flambeau drake pintails, 2 Greenhead Gear gadwall, 5 G&H coot. That is all I ever need, and it is about all I want to carry.
Getting to the marsh too late or leaving early and walking around other parties
I have a short barrel shotgun, would that work for duck hunting? This will be my first time today hunting with my fiance and family.
"Get out and scout"
"Get out and scout"
That's what everyone says, so just go where the ducks are pretty much.
man I went twice last weekend but late afternoon to evening hunts as I was unable to get out in the morning. I got skunked both days. They were flying way too high and pass over my spread. Are morning hunts "easier?"
That huglu over under is imported by CZ. That looks like the upland ultralight. I have that over under and paid $700 new. $130 is a STEAL.
That's a CZ upland ultra light. I have one in 20ga. Great clay gun. You stole that bad boy.
Heres a question that I have searched for and can't find much on. When duck hunting, do people try to hunt certain types of ducks or are people just happy with what they can get? It seems to me like it would be hard to identify the many different types of ducks in flight? 1000% newb here!
Dan G
People usually target big ducks, mallards, pintails gadwalls, ect. But some people are happy with any type of Duck.
With enough practice, you will know them all. 10 or 12 species covers most of what I ever see. I pass on teal, (except early teal season), pass mergansers, pass hen mallards, pass coot. I will shoot anything else, but will wait for drake mallards if I think I can get 5. We can have 6 total ducks, 5 drake mallards.
I've got that over and under and it will take steel and shoots really nice. Great buy for the price
Super long intro video starts at 2:30
I live in Georgia, and the part I live in we don’t have many ducks nor hunters. Hunting is one of my few passions, but it’s hard to know where to begin. I have some friends that hunt, I’ve asked them to go but they all give an excuse as to why they don’t wanna go. How can I get on the river this year, and have effective hunts?
Where in ga? I’m in ga and know tons that hunt ducks all over
Who remembers his old dip channel?
Plz tell me 26 inch barrel is good for duck hunting with modified choke (kral semiauto)
The barrel length will not make a difference over 24 (actually it might be 21") inches, but 30 inches swings slower and has a longer sighting plane. Anything in between should work. The choke should work fine inside 40 yards, which is a good kill range. I use improved modified and full. Pattern the shot on a 40" circle at 40 yards with the shells you use. That is about 50 steps for me. You will see if enough bbs are in the circle.
Nice shirt brother I volunteer with hunters for life
Nice video! New to duck hunting but just love getting out there. What areas do you hunt? I’m stationed in Wichita and would like to check out some places around me
Good vid as always, love your channel. Season starts next month for us up here in Canada, get amped up!
When does duck season start in kansas? Here in Finland it starts 20th of august 12:00 p.m.
Fever is real, gotta go scouting for the honeyhole
I just picked up a Huglu also.
What are your the best waders in your opinion???
Steven Byers Bandeds are definitely the best but they’re expensive and all waders are going to end up with a hole in them in a year or 2. I would probably go with a decent pair of cabelas brand or frogg toggs so when you replace them you aren’t spending $500
I like oversized Breathe Rite chest waders, at least, breatheable. I do not like neoprene, although they are more buoyant . You can layer up underneath, feet and legs. I wear a lightweight camo coverall over them. My last pair from Cabelas lasted 10 years. 120 then. About 220 now. My neoprenes are too hot, too restrictive, but good for my wife who freezes and hardly ever goes.
How do I find public land without spending $100 on a app or GPS? Maybe I'm just cheap 🤔
ShotGun tommy OnX hunting App is awesome!!! 30$ for a year! And you get everything in the state you live in I love it!
Your state has a resource that shows all game lands and maps of them with boundaries. Just have to get to googling. I bought a map of the area and filled in game land with a highlighter based off the maps.
OnX is nice and worth the money imo. I've hunted public land my whole life and always find info on DNR sites. County GIS maps are a great way to determine boundaries and they are free and easy to use. Find a public spot and go walk it, talk to people, knock on doors and ask if they will show you where there property meets public. Most of them are happy to show you so you don't wonder into there setup in the dark. I've also went to the library and found articles and crude maps of public land.
What about leaving decoys for next hunt, is it ok to leave them, or do you feel it makes no difference(do the ducks get used to them and won’t decoy later on?)
Would have to agree with most of those
At 1:55 how do you know when a gun can’t shoot steel shot
Jackson Proctor all guns can shoot steel
You're not supposed to shoot steel shot in some classic shotguns but they make bismuth shot which you can shoot out of old or new guns
Damn, your buddy's Dad gave a good job on that O/U. Good find !
A tip for beginners is in hard hunted area is use goose dekes instead of duck dekes, ducks out of canada have seen every duck spread. Ive killed more ducks over goose dekes than over duck dekes
Il try that one
Truth! We used Canadas for teal season (and teal) this year and it was the best in 26 years.
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Go dove hunting with the over and under
No sky busting. Got it. (I found myself doing it today, to be honest) I am rediculosly new. I just got desperate. Luckily, I am pretty sure I missed completely.
Sky busting is something every new hunter does till they figure out that if they got decoys out in a u or v there going to have a duck or two land in them without the calls, without good camo, wearing a tan sports jacket and a red hat and elvis gold rim sunglasses. As long as they look at the ground instead of the birds. After they figure that out they pick there shots within 15-30 feet.
If you shoot and miss, they won't be back. If you wait, even if they leave, they might come back, and you didn't scare ducks off that you didn't see. I always wait for a shot inside 40 yards, usually closer. The sport is fooling the ducks into or near the decoys. That is the sport, whether you shoot or not.
Sky bustin just educates the bird not to come back to that area
I take it as a rule of thumb on how high you should shoot, walk out to the edge of a woods look at the tallest trees and get famiular how high u should shoot I don't shoot higher than that.
I guessed before I watched. 1. Duck ID. Know what you are shooting. Pass on hen mallards, mergansers. 2. Shooting too soon. Let them get in closer so you kill them, or have closer 2nd and 3rd shots. 3. Moving around too much. Movement will flare the ducks. 4. Using no face mask or facepaint. White faces scare ducks. 5. Using a shiny gun. Flashing guns scare ducks. 6. Calling too much. Most will come in with no calling. 7. No motion in the decoys. Motion will help A LOT. Use a Higdon pulsator and mojo hen or gadwall. 8. Use good decoys that look real, like Greenhead Gear or flocked Avian X. 9. Have a unique spread, not just a dozen mallards. A couple pintails, gadwall, widgeon and mostly coots, if they are around, and a few mallards. 10. Dress warm and stay dry. Wait a minute. It isn't a duck hunt if you aren't cold and wet!
a recipe fro mergansers is get a piece of wood put the duck on it (no plucking no nothing just straight to the wood) and stick it in the oven at 500 for 5 mins then take it out throw the merganser out the window and eat the wood
What happened to the store?
Oh no ... u kill my friends
Go to football field count how many steps you have in 40 yards then make a game out guessing what 40 yards looks like both in field and off season with today to today stuff. When I was a kid my friends Dad did this with us and we would win a coke or candy bar. We became a very lethal pair of duck hunting junkies at 12 years old. And scouting birds should be on the list twice there is no such thing as too much time in the field.
Watching this @5:04 am. Hunting early teal/geese with 7 decoys, pump shotgun, and my boat is a kayak. Shooting light ain't till 6:11 and I am hunting public(lake) Only one, and I've been here since 3:05
'''What name first weapon??? Sorry my English is so week
Model 12 Winchester. Now I use Remington 1100, 870, and Mossberg 500. Still have my grandpa's model 12.
@@ronmoore5503 I’m debating between an 870 and the mossberg 500. Any thoughts?
1 mistake I make is fireing to high on ducks in time and can hit them 😔
5) Calling too much 4) Skyscraping 3) Highballing when ducks are close to commiting 2) Calling too much 1) Calling too much
Watching people setup deeks right at shoot time always kills me. 🤦♂️ Setup earlier people!
I’m that guy, considering I have to drive 2 hrs to my spot, don’t want to walk up at 3 AM
@@charlesbergenske6580 lots of my hunting spots are between 2-8 hours of driving. I always arrange to get to my spots on time so I can hunt without messing up other hunters spots. I save my sick & vacation days to hunt. I look forward to it all off season. I'm always in the marsh hours before shoot time.
What were you doing in Nebraska?
I actually had a question. any tips for trafficking ducks ? we hunt a pond that is in between the roost and where they feed. but don't get many ducks to come in but a literal ton fly by
Dillon Hudson, large decoy numbers and power calling. That's the only way to run traffic. But moral of the story, gotta be where they wanna be.
Trent Shell well that one is obviius lol if i was where they wanted to be I wouldn't need to traffic
I would have to say power calling, I’ve been in that situation, and a come back call or a loud hail call can turn their heads and get their attention
What should you do when your working birds all day but the guys next to you keep sky busting at them all day?
Ryan Demaray Yell at them till they yell back. Then when they do get some in range shoot at nothing just to flair em. When they leave you leave and get in a fist fight in the parking lot.
Trust me always works !! :)
@@christopherhutton8485 the only way
You pack up and run your boat right through their decoys and grab as many as you can till they start peppering
Enjoy the show and hope they freeze or run out of shells.
My neighbor took me rabbit hunting last weekend at a giant public land and we pulled up to a spot and looked around sand saw nobody so we let out his dogs and we started down the hill and this was right next to the lake so there were duck around and I heard a quack but I thought it sounded more like a call and sure enough it was right as we were calling the dogs back the found a rabbit and started running the rabbit I feel so quilty so if you were duck hunting at a lake last Sunday and heard rabbit dogs barking I’m sorry
You aren’t a real fan if you don’t remember his dipping days
Cover, cover, cover. You can always tell a rook from a veteran as soon as they get in the blind. Vet will want the corner and pull cover towards him while the rook will push it away so he can see better.
Also remember to put the plug in the boat!!
Oh ya learn to call and when to call. If you want to stay married practice in your truck....
Christopher Hutton Good call on the calling! This will be my first year duck hunting, so I bought a teal call and a Mallard call and I waled on it while on the phone with my wife as I was leaving academy, needless to say, our conversation continued with me repeating "hello,"hello," hello," baby,"baby," hello you still there"?
The biggest mistake new hunters make is not being stealthy enough i.e. not hiding their faces with a face mask or moving or talking too loud when birds are working.
The best thing you can do is get outside and hunt nothing beats experience good days and bad learn from em.
Please do not collab with those Dux clowns. Keep actually making good content and actually shooting birds. Don't turn into them and skybust in fields at flaring birds and then hunting tame mallards from a pit and calling it a huge success. Nice Huglu by the way, awesome guns!
Drew Schaad what makes you think they are tame birds??? They aren’t on the east coast😂
Come hunt in nebraska
Know how to identify your ducks and geese know the limits on certain ducks and geese bring. a reg book with you
When is duck season for you USA boys
is it bad that as a 10 yr old i did the math and ive spent 11.5 days in the duck blind lol
Bro I missed out bad I didint know mwo was closing out is there anyway I can buy a hat from you I like those trucker caps
Sometimes if public land is too packed other hunters might not mind if you joined them. It's better than two setups 50-75 yards apart. Then you'll just be spooking each other's ducks.
200y is not enough brother .... I would say make it 300 to 350 .... just me. All I'm saying is if you set up 200y from me I'm just gonna let it go but I will be doing what I said. Peace out!
Teaching others to duck hunt is the first foul.
Collab with FDH
he starts talking bout long shots and im like ummmmmmmmm as a 10 yr old ive sniped a goose 75 yards 20 ga 6 shot it was pure luck
There’s 68 disliked rn... I’m sorry I failed good video but I couldn’t
3rd
# 1 in my book save up your bucks and join a decent duck hunting club.....
Charles Kittler yeah spend thousands of dollars for hunting a bird you can easily hunt on public land
What about an extra pair of gloves that makes hunting awful really quick
Went through 5 pairs one day.
#1 join dux waterfowl
717 waterfowl He is fine on his own
717 waterfowl what makes you think that?
Mac Duncan every vedio is sky busting and obnoxious the pro staff is for anyone who sends a email lol outdoor limits is a normal guy just like us not gimics or dumbshit
I live in West Wichita, lets go kill some ducks/geese sometime! - Nolan
Sky scrapping not busting sounds better
130 bucks cant not buy it at that price
He will kill a Band with that gun
Look at my point of view. When u find thr feeding view or got thr b4 them... u got got them b4 they do.
.. n ud catch no watter, cause they expect thr lol dnt matter the shots u throw at them they will look arnd like "wtf"
Nobody likes to give new guys advice in Arkansas I know that
if you see the birds eye, their gonna die.
Jacob Wiebe they’re*
Don’t forget target practice. Taking 3 shots to drop 1 bird calls for some practice.
What's the best way for a single women to get into Duck hunting?
I am looking for a mentor
I don't really have friends that hunt
I watch tons of videos
Other suggestions?
Roberta Givens to come on a duck hunting date with me 😍
Flanker 07
I would love to go on a mentoring duck hunting Day Out... what state are you in?
Frist off . Do you have a boat , decoys and a good dog . Are you good at setting and picking up decoys ? Can you cook on a blind stove ? If you answered yes to these questions and live on the mississippi give me a shout .
Just go with a guide..
Bob Black first off I'd like to say thank you for all your help and what direction to look. Secondly I'd like to say if I knew all of the above things I probably wouldn't be asking where a good place to start was. Thirdly well I'm just going to leave it at the first two.... xoxo thanks love
Huğlu Turkısh
Never shoot at water
Mistake # 1......Being a kid and making RUclips videos like you know anything about waterfowling !!!
Todd Williams mistake #1 don’t be a dick
Todd Williams Love your videos!!
He admits he has not been doing it long. It only takes about .... I guess you will never know everything. Been doing it for about 52 years. Learned to use Canada floaters AND teal on public land for early teal this year. Best season in 26 years.
You forgot one new duck hunters shouldnt start a youtude and have crappy content
He admits he has not been doing it long. He is articulate and fun to listen to. It won't take him long. He has the spirit and enthusiasm!