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Walk in Duck Hunters #4354688 06/30/13 01:29 AM
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What are your tips and tricks with moving gear?

and if you don't have a dog, what is your primary means to retrieve your bird?


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Inflatable decoys, deflated, in a backpack.

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Use a surfrod with a big treble hook for decoys.

Re: Walk in Duck Hunters [Re: Hopedale] #4354692 06/30/13 01:35 AM
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I have a canoe with a catamaran that is removable to move gear.

I have a good retriever now but I used a bass pole and a jitterbug last year....or waited for the wind/wake to wash it ashore. I had a few guys on windless days stop and say "you want my dog to get that bird?"....very cool.

Re: Walk in Duck Hunters [Re: Ben Lilly] #4354762 06/30/13 02:05 AM
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Get a good decoy bag (padded straps and waist strap) for hiking in. I take all the sand out of the keels and make them water keeled decoys to reduce A LOT of weight.

Luckily we live in Texas. Swimming after a bird is always an option......And has been done.

Otherwise what everyone else says.

Re: Walk in Duck Hunters [Re: Duck Buster] #4354784 06/30/13 02:11 AM
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I hate the way hydrilla feels on bare feet.... freaks me out just thinking about it


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Re: Walk in Duck Hunters [Re: SweetTea] #4354793 06/30/13 02:15 AM
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Originally Posted By: SweetTea
I hate the way hydrilla feels on bare feet.... freaks me out just thinking about it


Might as well be a shark as far as I'm concerned

Re: Walk in Duck Hunters [Re: Ben Lilly] #4354807 06/30/13 02:19 AM
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Haha ya my luck I'll be the dummy who gets attacked by an alligator and is never seen again


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Re: Walk in Duck Hunters [Re: SweetTea] #4354901 06/30/13 03:00 AM
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Decoy sled or a good decoy bag. I always just walked out and picked my birds up before I got a dog.

Re: Walk in Duck Hunters [Re: Trout-killer] #4354909 06/30/13 03:05 AM
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Texas rig over the shoulder and start walking, I still don't have a dog so I just walk out and get my birds.


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Re: Walk in Duck Hunters [Re: Beretta] #4355127 06/30/13 05:26 AM
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Two legs and waders.
And hockey backpack full of decoys

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Practice.. Grab your gear and hump it around your neighborhood. I used to get weird looks carrying a decoy bag full of gear and a sledgehammer (simulate a gun) around the neighborhood, but it helped. Get you body used to carrying the weight. Nothing sucks more than not being used to it and halfway through your walk-in and your hating life and then realize you have to go back after you're done. Every hunt you will learn. You'll tweak how you hump your gear, and what you bring every time.


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Originally Posted By: JakeJJ
Practice.. Grab your gear and hump it around your neighborhood. I used to get weird looks carrying a decoy bag full of gear and a sledgehammer (simulate a gun) around the neighborhood, but it helped. Get you body used to carrying the weight. Nothing sucks more than not being used to it and halfway through your walk-in and your hating life and then realize you have to go back after you're done. Every hunt you will learn. You'll tweak how you hump your gear, and what you bring every time.


THIS...

Nothing worse than a "pack in" that's out of shape.

Another tip, get some friends that pack in, usually gear can be split up and lighten everyones load. When I take friends to a public walk in, I carry everything (I think it gives them an idea on how hard the walk is when your only carrying a shotgun)

-Matt

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Texas-rigged decoys on a carabiner (or two) over the shoulder, layout blind over the shoulder, blind bag and gun over the the shoulder. My shoulders get a serious workout. I always keep a fishing rod in the truck with a topwater lure or weighted treble hook tied on for retrieving the ones that get out in the deep water. Or just take a swim. Here's my buddy KentuckyNative drying out after taking a swim for some teal ... and we had a dog that day.


Or a long stick tied together with old pieces of barbed wire ...



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I just bring a gun and some shells and set up 20 yards away from the guy that got there 4 hours before me smile


Re: Walk in Duck Hunters [Re: nogeese] #4358257 07/01/13 10:13 PM
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I pack as Light as possible and distribute the weight evenly in my deke bag.


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Re: Walk in Duck Hunters [Re: 1FowlHntR] #4358682 07/02/13 01:08 AM
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If I'm using my layout, I put about 8 decoys inside the layout and put it on my back with the backpack straps then my gun over my shoulder. If I'm not using my layout I put about 16 texas rigged decoys in a decoy bag with my blind bag and my jacket and sweaters since I'm usually stripping them off about 100 yards from the gate anyways. Then I have my gun over my shoulder. I got really good at walking in last year, there's no close walk in spots where I hunt.

Re: Walk in Duck Hunters [Re: Erichugh22] #4358854 07/02/13 02:20 AM
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Well, a buddy of mine picked up one of these and created the Duckanator Mobile 2005



Do to non-disclosure agreements, I can't show you the real model. But when fully rigged it stores the decoy bag, shot gun, and blind bag.


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Deer cart will save your back bigtime. But...................sometimes the terrian is either too soft and muddy or too rough, that is the only thing that holds me back from using the cart.

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Re: Walk in Duck Hunters [Re: Erichugh22] #4359053 07/02/13 03:37 AM
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I always take way more crap than is needed.


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Re: Walk in Duck Hunters [Re: Fooshman] #4359079 07/02/13 03:44 AM
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I have a tendency to do that too.

Re: Walk in Duck Hunters [Re: Trout-killer] #4359107 07/02/13 03:58 AM
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Back in europe we used live ducks on a yerkstring.
No calls needed, just jerk the rope every once a while.

Its still legal in france.

Frenchies...


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Strange video from the frenchies,

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GwST0pT5sDk


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Loved my 4 inches. Well needed.

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Re: Walk in Duck Hunters [Re: beaversnipe] #4359727 07/02/13 03:02 PM
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Good decoy bag and just wade out to dead to pick up. We have never used dogs, would love to but it's too damn expensive to buy and train those suckers.

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I can't believe someone suggested suiting up for gear hauling practice and someone else came in right behind him and said ^^THIS rofl


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