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Second brief duck season opens today
Normally, a three-inch rain similar to the one that hit Mississippi on Monday and Tuesday this week would have a dramatic impact on duck habitat in the Delta. […]
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Saturday is youth duck day
Duck season returns Saturday for one more day of hunting, and while shooting is limited to hunters aged 15 and under, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks encourages participation by licensed adults. […]
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Delta doubleheader — Duck hunting in the morning plus deer hunting in the evenings
Whistling wings buzzed directly overhead an instant before a flock of ducks suddenly crashed into our decoy spread in the pre-dawn darkness. An old lone Susie who was now swimming amongst the decoys called out to a group of mallards flying overhead. […]
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State has 60-day duck season
As expected after federal officials last month reported another above-average count in its annual waterfowl population surveys, Mississippi has set a 2015-16 duck season that gives hunters 60 days and a six-bird daily limit. […]
Bobby C's Outdoors
Ducks came south early, now headed north
If ever a biblical verse has fit a hunting season, it is Job 1:21 and the start of the 2014 Mississippi Duck season. […]
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Top 5 mistakes duck hunters make
Here are some steps to take that have helped Louisiana duck hunters work ahead of hunts to prevent headaches in the blind. […]
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Duck hunters had great season
Drew Burton and fellow hunters at the Cole Lake Hunting Club in Isola decided not to hunt on Sunday, the final day of the best duck season in Mississippi in his lifetime. […]
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Tallahatchie’s “secret” public ducks
There’s a good reason why most Mississippi duck hunters residing outside of the Delta don’t know about some pretty darn good public waterfowl opportunities in the Tallahatchie region. It’s probably because Delta hunters try to keep it secret. […]
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Ducks keep coming
Any thoughts that Mississippi duck hunters had that the early migration brought on by freakish November cold fronts would be short lived … forget about it. […]
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How to clean ducks using paraffin wax
Both Pat Bordelon and Mike Branton love to eat ducks. They eat them roasted. They eat them smoked. They eat them in gumbo. They eat them as bacon-wrapped roll-ups. […]
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Youths get early shot at ducks Saturday
A change in Mississippi’s waterfowl seasons give youngsters aged 15 and under an early shot at ducks on Saturday (Nov. 16) during a statewide one-day youth season. […]
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Ducks show slight decrease in last year
Despite an across-the-board decrease that biologists call insignificant, the annual count of duck populations has plenty of good news for waterfowl hunters. […]