03-28-2005, 05:00 PM
The one piece of advice that I can give...go out and mark off 40 yards. Make sure you memorize exactly how far it is. Then, NEVER fire at a duck that is out farther. Some people claim that they can kill birds at 80 yards and I guess sometimes they get a lucky BB to the head, but you will RARELY knock down anything past 50 yards (with steel shot) and if you do, it will still be very much alive. If you need a good example of exactly not what to do, go out to the main dike between units 1 and 2 at Farmington Bay on any given day during the season (Saturdays are comical). 98% of the birds tht get shot at are WAY out of range and you'll have prime examples of the kind of duck hunter that you don't want to be.
Personally, if its more than 35 yards out, I don't shoot.
***DISCLAIMER...I realize that not all people that hunt the dikes are skybusting idiots...just most of them are. I even occationally hunt the dikes when the divers are in thick. If you wait, you can get some good shots.
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Personally, if its more than 35 yards out, I don't shoot.
***DISCLAIMER...I realize that not all people that hunt the dikes are skybusting idiots...just most of them are. I even occationally hunt the dikes when the divers are in thick. If you wait, you can get some good shots.
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