pintails

• Jan 26, 2005

• #1

D

Duck's and Buck's

Senior Member

Hey guys I have been hunting for a few years now and I want to harvest a pintail in the worst kind of way. I wonder where the best opportinity to do this would be? I know some of you guys will know where to head. tks for your help. John

 

• Jan 26, 2005

• #2

U

UWGduck

Senior Member

Simple, go to an Ark rice Field or just hunt Ga and pray a lot.

 

• Jan 26, 2005

• #3

D

Duck's and Buck's

Senior Member

I've been to Ark. every year I've been hunting I just hunt in the timber on my own. Don't like paying 100 to 200 to hunt in the rice fields. I guess I'll just have to go ahead and shell out the $ and pay em. I'll try it next yr. I guess. Tks, John

 

• Jan 26, 2005

• #4

D

ducked up

Banned

go to mexico!!!!!!

 

• Jan 26, 2005

• #5

GAGE

GONetwork Member

Or Mexico where the daily limit is somthing like 8! What a picture that would make, 8 Bull Sprigs!
I killed mine in LA but did kill a hen last year off Clarke Hill!

Yeah I know, three sprigs and a hen and I shoot the hen!

Beautiful bird though!

Good Luck,

Gage

...ducked up beat me to it!

 

• Jan 26, 2005

• #6

N

Nitro

Banned

The west coast of Mexico is a great hunt.

For an economical hunt and a sure thing on a full colored Drake - January in Texas.

 

• Jan 26, 2005

• #7

Nick_T

Banned

Or hunt the GA coast and get lucky. If ya gonna get one in GA that's the highest percentage place to get it done, gonna have to be patient though, took me 10 years, but well worth the wait.

Nick T

 

• Jan 26, 2005

• #8

J

jasperga

Member

I had the opportunity last year hunting with David Newlin on the coast but of course I missed them 4 different times! He says they are around but not consistent. I was real depressed about it. We wore out the red breasted mergansers.

 

• Jan 26, 2005

• #9

N

Nitro

Banned

D's&B's,

It is rare to kill in Pin in the timber. They like rice fields.

Those of you who want to get one for the wall better do it soon. Things are gonna change for the worse in the next few seasons. Pins, Blacks, Scaup, Harlis, and perhaps even Mallards will be closed or extremely limited in the future.

Believe dat.

 

• Jan 26, 2005

• #10

H

Hawg

Banned

You'd have a good chance in Ark. but a better chance in Texas or Mexico. Good luck in your Quest.

 

• Jan 26, 2005

• #11

Big Dawg

Senior Member

central flyway is the best

The central flyway is the best for sprigs. I have killed hundreds of them and 99 percent have come from the central flyway.You can hunt the dakotas but the birds are not full feathered when the season opens and a early November freeze can end the season up there pretty quick. I would skip Arkansas and hunt Kansas to Mexico._Mark

 

• Jan 27, 2005

• #12

WOODIE13

2023 TURKEY CHALLENGE 1st place Team

Go to VA, late season that place is loaded up with them. Take your one and watch them land all in your decoys . I know MO, pinnies were in during the first part of the season the last two years and most are not in full plummage.

West coast has some serious potential, but I did not hunt them while I was out there.

 

• Jan 27, 2005

• #13

dutchman

Senior Member

agarr said:

Those of you who want to get one for the wall better do it soon. Things are gonna change for the worse in the next few seasons. Pins, Blacks, Scaup, Harlis, and perhaps even Mallards will be closed or extremely limited in the future.

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I couldn't agree more. It's pretty slim this year, even in Arkansas. Short pintail season and a daily limit of one. GA's the same, as you know.

 

• Jan 27, 2005

• #14

WOODIE13

2023 TURKEY CHALLENGE 1st place Team

They have been at one a day for a very long time. Two years ago they went to a 30 day season with a daily limit of one.

 

• Jan 30, 2005

• #15

Smiley

GONetwork Senator District 44

covered up with pintails

Hope you get one. I just got back from Ark yesterday and there were more pintails in one of our bean fields than I've ever saw. Here's a pic from the last day we hunted with 3 drake sprigs.

 

• Jan 31, 2005

• #16

D

Duck's and Buck's

Senior Member

pins

What part of Ark. were you guys hunting in? That looks like a great hunt congrats. I'll keep trying. I only got to go to Ark. once this year and only hunted a rice field once in the evening. I hunted the rest of the time in the timber. I didn't even see a pintail. From what agarr and some others say we might not have much of a lengthy season next yr. Maybe for the best?

 

• Jan 31, 2005

• #17

Smiley

GONetwork Senator District 44

We were hunting in NE Arkansas, near Waldenburg. We managed a pretty good season, but this was still the worst year for duck numbers there. I wouldn't be suprised if the season and limits are cut next year.