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Dean Schellinger Community Regular

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Hunted South Dakota the last 2 weekends, what a difference a week makes. First weekend hunted in T-Shirt, 2nd weekend hunted with 2 jackets! Was pretty selective and only shot drakes, but it was unreal the amount of birds we saw and shot. I even got the opportunity to get a nice bull can like I was hoping. Layout huntings was first time experience and a great time.

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WV. Thanks it was alot of fun. Yeah its disappointing they only let a select few hunters in, because the birds out there are thick. We were hunting East Central South Dakota, but you can pretty much pull into any field or slough and shoot a limit. I was very selective and kind of trophy hunted ducks which is a definite change from MN. Could have limited out in 15 minutes every day if I shot the first 5 that came in. Everything out there froze up on our last day so the duck hunting will be hard from here on out. I would recommend making a trip, not much $$ compared to driving around MN looking for ducks.

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I thought Cans were closed this year or is it only wisconsin?

I had to look that up as well as my thoughts were similar to yours.

1 Canvasback can be apart of your bag limit in SoDak this year. They are closed in MN too.

We always get the shaft here in Minnesota. I know this is a different topic entirely but it seams pointless to close shooting of cans in MN when you can shoot them in the neighboring states. I'll never understand the intentions behind our regulations. frown

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Originally Posted By: JAR JAR
I thought Cans were closed this year or is it only wisconsin?

I had to look that up as well as my thoughts were similar to yours.

1 Canvasback can be apart of your bag limit in SoDak this year. They are closed in MN too.

We always get the shaft here in Minnesota. I know this is a different topic entirely but it seams pointless to close shooting of cans in MN when you can shoot them in the neighboring states. I'll never understand the intentions behind our regulations. frown

I know what you mean hanson, I've had more friends telling me about having to pass up on those bulls than I've ever heard of people seeing them here before. Just doesn't make sense.

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Yeah its tough to stomach watching a bull can land in the dekes here in MN. The reason they are open in South Dakota is because that is a different flyway, the Central which was allowed by the Feds, and they adopted the "hunters choice" which means you can only shoot 5 ducks and included in that limit you can only shoot 1 hen mallard OR 1 canvasback OR one pintail. I agree that only being able to shoot 2 wood ducks early in the year when that is all that is around sucks, especially when they leave 2 weeks into the year for Iowa and other southern states where they can shoot 3 of our home-grown woodies.

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Don't get too uptight about the can thing. Remember last year we could shoot 2 a day and the other states mentioned could only take 1. People in Nodak and Sodak were probably saying the same thing about our states regs as hundreds of cans bombed through their decoy spreads. The Can season will likely be closed across the US next year anyway unless something miraculous happens and who knows how long it will be before we can shoot them again, anywhere. I agree these regs don't make much sense because of their inconsistencies from state to state as these are migratory birds and they do migrate between states and even flyways for that matter.

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Good to hear that you have/will be getting those kids out in the duck blind! Next to me in that first picture is my dad and I still remember the first day I went with him on a hunt. I was just about in tears begging him to let me go with him. That was in the early 90's when the duck numbers were way down and I know we didn't even see a single duck that day but I didn't care. I cherish every single hunt I get to share with him.

P.S. Dad, if you're reading this, mom should blame you that I'm addicted to waterfowling because you started it all from the very beginning!!! gringrin

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