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C-Bass2mouth · #1 09-11-2015, 01:11 PM

It's true, if a blind comes up for lease there is always a reason for it. No one gets off of a jam up spot voluntarily. But some spots I see people give up, or complain about have potential, and they just assume because there are decoys out and their guns are loaded that they're supposed to limit every hunt. It's not 1983 anymore, brush your blind, put some effort into your spread, maybe listen to a real hen once and a while and practice during the off season. Now don't get me wrong, there are countless scenarios that can make it just a BAD blind (location being the primary reason), but if you have birds in your area, there is ALWAYS room for improvement. Sure it might not be just a rape fest every hunt like the good ol days, but honestly there's not a whole lot of difference between killing a few birds in a hunt, and limiting. Better shooting, better shot calling, better decision making, better dekes, better brush. I tend to think of it how I think of bass fishing, it's a percentage game. You get X amount of casts per day (replace casts with amount of ducks flying close enough to give you a look) the less casts you make, the lower your chance is to catch (or the less ducks you have the less chances you have of killing, duh right?). Improve the efficiency of each cast, and your chances of success go up. Everything else you can do only increases or decreases your chances. My point being, you're not gunna stumble across a blind of a lifetime, just get that out of your head. If you find an average one, be happy with it and put the effort in to squeak out a few more birds per hunt, and over the course of a season it will add up. Some people just get it in their head that they won't change how they've hunted with success in previous years. For example "I ain't using mojos, or buying them fancy decoys, I've been blowing this faulks and killing ducks without all that stuff for years." The same scenario with the guys who didn't want to get on the Alabama rig train just because it was so different than what they were used to or "unfair." I've said it before and I'll say it again, adapt or die bruh. lol

cgoods17 · #2 09-11-2015, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by C-Bass2mouth

It's true, if a blind comes up for lease there is always a reason for it. No one gets off of a jam up spot voluntarily. But some spots I see people give up, or complain about have potential, and they just assume because there are decoys out and their guns are loaded that they're supposed to limit every hunt. It's not 1983 anymore, brush your blind, put some effort into your spread, maybe listen to a real hen once and a while and practice during the off season. Now don't get me wrong, there are countless scenarios that can make it just a BAD blind (location being the primary reason), but if you have birds in your area, there is ALWAYS room for improvement. Sure it might not be just a rape fest every hunt like the good ol days, but honestly there's not a whole lot of difference between killing a few birds in a hunt, and limiting. Better shooting, better shot calling, better decision making, better dekes, better brush. I tend to think of it how I think of bass fishing, it's a percentage game. You get X amount of casts per day (replace casts with amount of ducks flying close enough to give you a look) the less casts you make, the lower your chance is to catch (or the less ducks you have the less chances you have of killing, duh right?). Improve the efficiency of each cast, and your chances of success go up. Everything else you can do only increases or decreases your chances. My point being, you're not gunna stumble across a blind of a lifetime, just get that out of your head. If you find an average one, be happy with it and put the effort in to squeak out a few more birds per hunt, and over the course of a season it will add up. Some people just get it in their head that they won't change how they've hunted with success in previous years. For example "I ain't using mojos, or buying them fancy decoys, I've been blowing this faulks and killing ducks without all that stuff for years." The same scenario with the guys who didn't want to get on the Alabama rig train just because it was so different than what they were used to or "unfair." I've said it before and I'll say it again, adapt or die bruh. lol

how do you improve the efficiency on ducks flying close enough to give you a look?

C-Bass2mouth · #3 09-11-2015, 01:34 PM

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how do you improve the efficiency on ducks flying close enough to give you a look?

Well obviously that's one of the things you can't control. BUT you can do said things to increase the chances of getting the ones that do. I mean everyone knows it's all about location, but when you're confined to one spot do what you can ya know

cgoods17 · #4 09-11-2015, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by C-Bass2mouth

Well obviously that's one of the things you can't control. BUT you can do said things to increase the chances of getting the ones that do. I mean everyone knows it's all about location, but when you're confined to one spot do what you can ya know

well your analogy was not a good one then.

C-Bass2mouth · #5 09-11-2015, 04:02 PM

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well your analogy was not a good one then.

If you think of both of these as chance events, and there are variables that can increase the chance of success / failure for both, then it's not necessarily a bad one. My bad doe. I just meant it can be possible to change a 150 bird/year blind into a 300 bird/year.

Matt G · #6 09-11-2015, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by C-Bass2mouth

Well obviously that's one of the things you can't control. BUT you can do said things to increase the chances of getting the ones that do. I mean everyone knows it's all about location, but when you're confined to one spot do what you can ya know

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