Moderators - please sticky

I volunteered to start the thread this year. Thanks for all the input. You can't make everyone happy, but I tried to incorporate good ideas that were well received on the previous threads.

1. This is for fun. No monetary prizes or wagers.
2. Everyone must obey applicable state and federal laws.
3. You are on the honor system. Post up a picture of your day's hunt from this season listing the date and the identifying the birds you shot from the group.
4. Add your own points with points from that day and total points in your post. I will try to do a weekly summary each Tuesday after the weekend posts are all up.
5. Hybrid ducks will be counted as 5 points if your picture can clearly show why it should be considered a hybrid and there is consensus on the board.
6. Banded birds get 5 points for each band.
7. We'll include our okie and cajun neighbors this year. Previous years were just Texas.
8. Contest runs from Oct 31, 2009 through Jan 24, 2010
9. Have fun and be safe this season.
10. Please reserve this thread for your hunting reports and scores. The moderators have told me they will delete "chit chat" posts. If you want to debate the merits of this use a different thread.


I tried to weight it to the ducks people shoot fewer of being worth more. A 5 point duck should be a bonus and I think the way it is currently set up would be very hard to max out on 5 point birds in a single day.
Consensus is that Mallard is 4 points

All positive points are for drakes.

5 Points
Pintail
Canvasback
Wood duck
Goldeneye
Cinnamon Teal
hybrid duck (Consensus)
Exotic (Baikal, Eurasian Widgeon, etc.)

4 Points
Mallard
Black Duck
Mottled Duck
Wigeon
Gadwall
Ruddy Duck

3 Points
Green Wing Teal
Blue Wing Teal
Red Head


2 Points
Whistling Duck
Bufflehead
Northern Shoveler (Spoonie)
Hooded Merganser

1 Point
Ring neck
Scaup
Common Merganser


Geese
6 birds max per day(you pick which ones)

5 White Fronted (Specklebelly)
4 Canada
3 Blue Phased Snow
2 Snow and Ross


-1 All Hens
-1 All Coots
(The reason for this is to encourage conservation and in flight identification. Shooting coots is only done by crazy cajuns on purpose. If you can prove you are a crazy cajun and make a gumbo with your coots we might not dock the points.)

Bonus 5 point per band

I guess I'll start this thing off.


2 wood duck drakes- 10 pts
1 gwt hen- (-1)
Total- 9 points

Open day 10/31/09

3 gadwall dakes = 4+4+4 = 12 points
2 Widgion drakes = 4+4 = 8 points
1 Gad hen = -1
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Total = 19 points



2 of the drakes are juvenile, ID below..

Pic below you can tell the drake gad juvenile (top) from the hen, the hen has specks on the bill , the drake does not.



Plus there is a little brown plumage on the wing..



Below are pics of the widgeon, the juvenile (top) you can see the green on the head…plus you can see the rosy-gray feathers at neckline…



Better pic of juvenile widgeon, and the white plumage on the wing..

31 Oct 09




Teal - 3pts
Ruddy hen - -1

2 points

I think not on Geese

Should the ruddy hen still be a minus one if drake ruddys are no points?

yes and ruddys need to be added!

2009-2010 opener.



We shot 9 ducks between the three of us.

My ducks:

Woodie 5 pts
GWT drake 3 pts
GWT hen -1

= 7 pts

11-01


3 Woodies- 15 points.
Season Total- 24 points

Girlfriend Shot a Hen Woodie and a GWT drake, so if she decides she wants to play, her total is 2 lol.

11- 1



1 greenhead = 4 pts
1 GWT = 3 pts

=7 pts

Season total= 14 pts

11-1-09



1 gadwal = 4
1 red head = 3
1 blt hen = -1

Total = 6

10/31/2009


1 mallard drake
2 wood duck drakes
14pts

11/1/2009


2 woodys

10 pts

11-1-09

Widgeon hen = -1 pnt

Shot a double and got the drake, but he got away somehow..

I got 1 Spoonie drake and two coots on Sunday... = 0 points

...forgive me for not having pics...

oct. 31 opener

Drake Mallard 4 points
Drake woody 5 points
Hen woody not pictured -1 point

Total 8 points

Woodie drake- 5
2 woodie hens- (-2)
Total- 3

Season total- 27

11-3 hunt with Roofer



1 GWT = 3 pts

Season Total = 17 pts

03 Nov 09

First redhead



Redhead - 3pts
Robber - 4pts
Redhead Hen - -1

Total- 6pts

10. Please reserve this thread for your hunting reports and scores. The moderators have told me they will delete "chit chat" posts. If you want to debate the merits of this use a different thread.

11-04-09

Gadwall Drake 4 pts
Season Total 4 pts

Whoops



-1

Season Total =16 pts

Totals to this point

ishootspoonies 27
duckstroyer 24
Guy 18
Cable 16
TreeBass 8
Duck Slayer 8
hunt-n-agg 6
TexasEd 4
ishootspoonies gf 2
Beer_Slayer 0
WhiskeyandMe ??


If you all keep a running total in your posts when you put them up it helps. Thanks.

Only duck this season its been a rough one...
1 - wood duck drake = 5 pts.

11-4-09
1 Hooded Meganser - 2
1 Ringneck Drake - 1
1 GW Hen - (-1)
1 Ringneck Hen - (-1)

Total - 1