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re: Louisiana Duck Hunters
Posted on 1/6/26 at 9:17 pm to Nyala
Posted on 1/6/26 at 9:17 pm to Nyala
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Many big-tract landowners have gone to high dollar plots, feeders and boxes where scouting, climbers and deep woods hunting arent allowed (or are frowned upon)
Curious where that would be.
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kid who shot the big buck at the feeder from the redneck shooting house has learned and employed zero actual hunting skills to bag his buck
Probably didn’t tag his buck this year. The state of MS will probably kill the fewest deer it has killed in a decade this season.
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Posted on 1/6/26 at 9:42 pm to geauxbrown
I hunt down in Venice and most years if we don’t limit out, we’ll get close.
Posted on 1/6/26 at 9:52 pm to Outdoorreb
Why is that? Herd size is down?
Posted on 1/6/26 at 9:57 pm to Nyala
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Nyala
Can’t disagree with anything you posted.
Times have certainly changed in regards to land leasing, but more importantly the way we hunt has changed.
As a kid I was put out and told to sit in a spot and listen for the dogs. However, by the time I was 15 I was hunting on my own and had to learn to scout, find sign, hunt the wind and all the other skills associated with deer hunting of that time.
I still dig hunted in the mornings but had taken up bow hunting and was on my own. Of course, Buckhorn back in those days was a wild place with plenty of deer, but the message was the same. Learn how to hunt.
There is no doubt that a large number of the new generation have lost some of that ability. Feeders and food plots have played a large role, similar to the way we will eventually have a generation of fishermen who will struggle without Livescope.
BTW, I have zero problems with feeders, food plots or Livescope.
But the biggest hindrance today in terms of people learning to deer hunt the old school way is the trail camera. The guess work is gone.
Only time will tell how this affects us long term. Our numbers have been declining for years now, primarily due to land leasing which in turn creates fewer opportunities.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 8:22 am to geauxbrown
Hunt public for my entire life except for a year or two got into a cheap lease. I have not shot at a duck this second split. I have only seen a handful of duck's period this second split. The flyway has changed and not for the better. Already starting to pack up my decoys for what may be my last hooray. Just isn't worth the work I have to put into it for so few ducks. Never been on the X but used to have maybe 4/5 days where you did well. The rest of the season would usually be a few here, a few there, but would consistently see ducks, geese migrating. Not anymore. Now that my dogs are nearing the end of their hunting days, it might be the end of mine albeit for an invite here and there. Going to take my talents to the lake, but for fishing, not hunting and I love to duck hunt, brush the blind, put out decoys and the like. Just isn't worth the squeeze for this old geezer. 
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