across the river
Senior Member
I think DU’s execution is poor, compared to the QDMA or NWTF.
Considering the fact I can see 20+ DU stickers on trucks backglass driving around daily there should be more of an impact, regardless if this is a major flyway state or not. Because there’s definitely enough guys out there contributing.
Look at what the QDMA or NWTF has done with those game populations, how the quality of animals and harvests has been. Flyway or not, DU has done a **** poor job. Especially considering how many ring necks, woodies etc migrate down this way.. Their cooperation at the State level seems to be nonexistent
Where has QDMA or NWTF done an excellent job on public land? If you are looking strictly at the populations and judging based on that measuring stick, the DU has done an excellent job. I'm not saying they have, just saying based on your criteria for the other two, they have. The problem I have with all this bad mouthing DU is you'll act like there are all these public land meccas up and down the east coast that DU has created. You all mention Florida. Go pull up a Google earth map of Florida and Georgia. Tell me which one has more water relative to land size, and then tell me where you think the majority of the ducks would be. I promise you DU didn't build all those ponds and lake you see in Florida, and if you think the public ones don't get hammered you are fooling yourself. I've been there. If you want to see more ringneck in Georgia, then build your own private impoundment that you can manage and control yourself. The DU money raised in Georgia isn't close to enough to build a public impoundment that more than a handful of people could hunt each year. The corp of engineers and Georgia power have built lakes across the state that are thousands of acres that don't hold a lot of ducks anyway, but have people camping out overnight to possibly kill a ringneck or two. I don't get it. If the state of public land waterfowl hunting is already like it is now on lakes that are 10 of thousands of acres, what do you all expect DU to build that is going to provide any real hunting opportunities. If a ringneck can't land on Clarks Hill or Oconee without someone jumping him up, skybusitng at him, or shooting at him out of a boat, what is DU going to do to fix that? The $35 people send in each year doesn't entitle them to a good hunt spot, it simply gets them a magazine subscription.