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Two buddies hunted Camden Bottoms yesterday with all the snow, they killed 7 and they are in one of the top blinds there. I sure thought they would have done better but they said the ducks just were not there. Very few came in that got back out.

Hunted Reelfoot Lake Sat, Sun and Mon.

Saturday - Weather was cold and wind was 8-10 mph and overcast. Never heard so much shooting in my life and saw hundreds and hundreds of birds high in the sky. Buddies and I ended up with 30 ducks.
Sunday - Cold and heavy rain. Most of the shooting was before 10 am, but some after 1 pm. Birds were really tough to work, but still ended up with 20 in the boat.
Monday - Started off at 21 degrees with light ice everywhere. Temp got up into the low 40's pretty quick with full sun. Beautiful day weather wise. Only ended up with 6 and left at 1 pm. Ran into a few guys that didn't ever see a duck.

All and all it was a good trip.

Final Note. Made it to Final Flight in Union City TN to look around. They had some steel shot in stock, but it was pricey. #6 shot was $35 a box and everything else was over $50 a box. Heavy Shot Brand.

One of my buddies picked up a new Franchi semi auto 12 GA. He had nothing but trouble with it, but finally got it to cycle. Few of the guys were using the Herter's branded shells and had good luck with them. Walmart in Hickman, KY had a bunch of 308, 30-30, 30-06 and dove 12 GA loads in stock, but limit 1 box per caliber.

Walmart in Union City had a bunch of 12 GA dove loads in stock. $8.67 for winchester and $29.99 for the 100 packs. They also had 308 and bricks of 22 lr if anyone is looking with no limit.

good deal, I have some buddies going down tomorrow.
Will let you know how they do

Guided at reelfoot?

I need to get there one day.

yes guided.

just talked to my buddies, they only killed 4. Said they saw a lot but they would not work. They were right on the KY line about 100 yards from the refuge.

Hate to hear that I figured with the weather change it would be better than that. With the rain I was hearing the ducks were in the back water, but typically after a few days they move out.

Figured the Cold Front would help the duck hunters. Spoke to a guy hunting Reelfoot the last few days and they didn't even fire their shotguns two days this past week. Hunting is super slow.