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I again see I see people wanting their equipment to make up for hunting skill, as we've seen in archery(compounds and sights), muzzle loading(inlines and scopes), modern rifle big game(insanely powerful cartridges, lazer range finders even lazer scopes). Waterfowling, 3.5" heavier than steel, semi autos to really reach out there.

Learning to hunt ducks and put them on the "X" dropping them at 20 yrds DEAD is so much more rewarding than banging away at 50 yrds and seeing them rock and keep going or fall,swim away or dive and and spend the next 20min chasing them around and trying to swat them on the water.

I HUNT NOTHING BUT PUBLIC LAND, but I've spent a lot of time finding "X" where no one else is hunting. Back corners, skinny water that only holds a couple of decoys, areas you can't get to in a 16ft jon boats, decoy rigs that no one else uses, rivers near big public areas that ducks escape to, willing to pack a bag of decoys a long way, hunting on days nobody is there and on and on.

Taking longer and longer shots just makes ducks fly higher and farther from the shore. I have a spot that I hunt that is just a couple of hundred yards from a very popular point that I'm constantly going to and picking up all the spent hulls. when the ducks fly the shoreline you can see the swing way out around the point even when no one is there, yet where I'm at with no blind just sitting on the open shore without even any grass to hide in and y dog laying along side me the duck have no problem sailing into the decoys.

I shoot 13/16 oz of ITX 4's or6's out of a very old hammer sxs or a 20ga sxs with steel 4's. I do very well and have a lot of fun and very little frustration. I seldom stay long enough to limit out but rarely come home empty handed, once I've got a few ducks in the bag for dinner it's time to rest the area. Limits are those days that they go nuts trying to get into the decoys in a short period of time.