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Stretch
Jan 31, 2005 14:22:39 GMT -5
Post by Beaus_Dad on Jan 31, 2005 14:22:39 GMT -5
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Post by beauspal on Feb 1, 2005 5:13:35 GMT -5
Would that be a green wing teal per chance ??
Arnold Schwarzenducker ... flexing those biceps
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Stretch
Feb 1, 2005 16:19:37 GMT -5
Post by Beaus_Dad on Feb 1, 2005 16:19:37 GMT -5
No! it would not!- oh novice of the fowl
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Stretch
Feb 1, 2005 21:30:22 GMT -5
Post by Justin on Feb 1, 2005 21:30:22 GMT -5
that would be a male mallard I believe....I wonder if he has a band LOL
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Post by beauspal on Feb 3, 2005 5:51:07 GMT -5
okay - with my glasses on I see the green head.(<---pitifull excuse LOL ) I can remember when mallards were few and far between on this flyway - mostly blacks - with red legs - and teal. Then as the mallards moved in the black and the mallards became better and better acquainted and now we have blacks with greenish yellow legs.
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Stretch
Feb 3, 2005 17:24:23 GMT -5
Post by Beaus_Dad on Feb 3, 2005 17:24:23 GMT -5
This year I musta seen almost a 50/50 split between mallards and Blacks. I fear the true blacks days are numbered . On the up side nothin wrong with mallard great lookin duck, just as happy to turn the gun on them.
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Stretch
Feb 3, 2005 19:06:22 GMT -5
Post by sjemac on Feb 3, 2005 19:06:22 GMT -5
I must take issue with the last statement. Being up my arse in mallards, I must say that they are a gaudy, vulgar duck, easily decoyed and only shot by myself and my hunting partners as a bird of season's end or last resort.
The black however is understated and majestic. Wary and worthy of a $4.00 Hevishot shell or two.
The mallard is a $30.00 street walker that serves your needs of the moment but leaves you feeling somehow empty and cheap. The black duck is a companion that requires more effort and expense to woo but leaves you feeling whole, content, and fullfilled.
Nailing a mallard is like nailing the school slut. Hammering the black duck is like smacking a homerun with the Presbyterian minister's beauty queen daughter.
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Stretch
Feb 3, 2005 23:54:03 GMT -5
Post by beauspal on Feb 3, 2005 23:54:03 GMT -5
Well said -
I always figured the blacks were harder to decoy and better eating then them ducks from away ....
And I always wondered why most duck calles were tuned to the mallard voice - proabbly where the calls are made they weren't blessed by as many blacks as we used to have.
Great citizens those blacks - alsolutely no prejudice.
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Post by Beaus_Dad on Feb 4, 2005 7:32:58 GMT -5
Whether you like blacks or mallards or whatever the pure black duck I'm sorry to say is on the way out. Ive shot hybrids like Im sure most of you have. Every year it gets a little more watered down.
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Post by beauspal on Feb 4, 2005 8:27:24 GMT -5
Progress - whether its the migration of turkeys to Nova Scotia, or the demise of the Black Duck - what folks gotta realize that the only thing constant (besides taxes) in this world is change.
Even the extinction of species - sometimes man has no bearing on the big scheme of things - one of my favourite quotes is "The reason the dinosaurs went extinct is that they couldn't change"
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