Duck Camp Dinners

[Hugo Drax]

I don't know how many of y'all like hunting and fishing shows, but I generally do not, or rather I'm constantly searching for a good one. They seem to either be hosted by some arrogant hillbilly true American or, worse yet, some ultrafit yuppie with 300k worth of gear on a quest to find his Johnson through trophy hunting. Neither of these two types of hosts ever makes a mistake hiking in, gets skunked, misses a shot, or pierces a gut bag. Am I the only guy who hunts in old blue jeans?

No. Check out Duck Camp Dinners on the Outdoor Channel or YouTube. Good hunting and fishing, good cooking, and good camaraderie in between Chef Jean-Paul Bourgeois and his hunting buddies. Good ol fellers without an ounce of pretension and really beautifully filmed. It's a keeper.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled wordle, inane politics, and Del v Wosbald Adventures in Obscurely Esoteric Catholic Trivia threads.

[sweetandsour]

Thanks for the heads up, I very very rarely will look at these type shows/videos for longer than a few minutes. Many of us old duck hunters blamed Duck Dynasty for many ills, including the large uptick in numbers of want-to-be, or so-called, duck hunters. Most were idiots, with long beards and face paint.

Anyway I took a glance at one youtube episode to see where they are. I'd not heard of Klondyke LA; it appears to be a small community just south of Houma, so I'm sure I've been through there one time or another. Most of my time was spent way west of there, near Vermillion Bay. Anyway, I'll have to watch a couple of episodes.

[Hugo Drax]

Thanks for the heads up, I very very rarely will look at these type shows/videos for longer than a few minutes. Many of us old duck hunters blamed Duck Dynasty for many ills, including the large uptick in numbers of want-to-be, or so-called, duck hunters. Most were idiots, with long beards and face paint.

Anyway I took a glance at one youtube episode to see where they are. I'd not heard of Klondyke LA; it appears to be a small community just south of Houma, so I'm sure I've been through there one time or another. Most of my time was spent way west of there, near Vermillion Bay. Anyway, I'll have to watch a couple of episodes.

That's funny. Beards-as-manliness-indicators is worth a hearty guffaw. As my kids would say, "fatherless behavior." Guess we're lucky here on the Atlantic Flyway, thank goodness, probably because it's cold, cold when it's duck time here.

That's actually what keeps me out of your neck of the woods, sweetandsour. I'm sure it's infested with yups and back-to-the-land types right about now. The one wants to kill anything and the other wants to be maudlin and spiritual over every quacker.

[sweetandsour]

Thanks for the heads up, I very very rarely will look at these type shows/videos for longer than a few minutes. Many of us old duck hunters blamed Duck Dynasty for many ills, including the large uptick in numbers of want-to-be, or so-called, duck hunters. Most were idiots, with long beards and face paint.

Anyway I took a glance at one youtube episode to see where they are. I'd not heard of Klondyke LA; it appears to be a small community just south of Houma, so I'm sure I've been through there one time or another. Most of my time was spent way west of there, near Vermillion Bay. Anyway, I'll have to watch a couple of episodes.

That's funny. Beards-as-manliness-indicators is worth a hearty guffaw. As my kids would say, "fatherless behavior." Guess we're lucky here on the Atlantic Flyway, thank goodness, probably because it's cold, cold when it's duck time here.

That's actually what keeps me out of your neck of the woods, sweetandsour. I'm sure it's infested with yups and back-to-the-land types right about now. The one wants to kill anything and the other wants to be maudlin and spiritual over every quacker.

Yeah. What's the fly fishing English profs' name? Lived or still lives in Durango. Nice guy. If he were on here he would be calling me glib and facile. I can hear him now.
I know that some of the young new hunters are well meaning, but just ill informed and unknowledgeable. Friends of mine here would call them clueless. A certain Britt, good friend of mine would say that they don't appear to be deep thinkers, nor ones to be bothered with details. Those are the 32 young hunters that the game wardens wrote up on opening morning at one of the public marshes here a few years ago when Duck Dynasty was all the rage. Charges ranged from using lead shot rather than steel shot, having no duck stamp, shooting non-game birds, to name a few. Just basic nuisances. Many of these guys come here from Houston.
We fished a guy out of borrow ditch at McFaddin's a couple of years ago, in icy 35° weather, over his waders and stuck in mud, trying to retrieve a coot that he'd shot. We gave him hot coffee and told him not to undress or remove the waders until he got to his vehicle, which was only abt 1/4 mile away.
I saw a few of this sort on the east coast when we lived near Charleston, but not as many as here.

[FredS]

. . . Many of us old duck hunters blamed Duck Dynasty for many ills, including the large uptick in numbers of want-to-be, or so-called, duck hunters. Most were idiots, with long beards and face paint. . .

"A River Runs Through It" did the same thing for fly fishing for trout. Instead of idiots with long beards and face paint we have Tacoma's with soft toppers and water bottles plastered with stickers. Damn Texan's.

[EDIT] This is not a jab at any of my Taco-driving friends, like, say, oh I don't know, Bloodhound? The comment about Texan's stands though.

[sweetandsour]

. . . Many of us old duck hunters blamed Duck Dynasty for many ills, including the large uptick in numbers of want-to-be, or so-called, duck hunters. Most were idiots, with long beards and face paint. . .

"A River Runs Through It" did the same thing for fly fishing for trout. Instead of idiots, with long beards and face paint we have Tacoma's with soft toppers and water bottles plastered with stickers. Damn Texan's.

[EDIT] This is not a jab at any of my Taco-driving friends, like, say, oh I don't know, Bloodhound? The comment about Texan's stands though.

I know one or two of the Texans you're jabbing at.

BTW, on another forum I'm looking at today there's a guy from Idaho commenting on a pic that I posted of fried okra we had for dinner a couple of nights ago, and making fun of our paper plates. It's always something.

[Hugo Drax]

Good stuff in this thread. The older generation pokes a little fun at me, and you know, I'm pretty sure I deserve some of it. I drive the General Ree, a blaze orange 4Runner Trd Pro, fair game for any Taco owner's mirth. But if I see one more Salt Life or Bone Collector sticker on a rig up here, I'm going to scream.

That said, some of the younger guys drive me nuts. We had a group of deer hunters walk through my parents back yard last year. They live deep in the woods on unposted land. In the old days, hunters knocked on the door and asked permission. Theyd come back at the end of the day and thank them and let them know they were leaving, maybe even share a little of what they'd shot. We're overrun with deer and turkey and could use the help and its vitally important to a landowner to know there are hunters in the woods and we've never refused permission. These days, hunters feel free to just do what they please and that doesn't sit well with me.

There doesn't seem to be any studying anymore, either. Who reads George Bird Evans? Who's noticed woodcock fly in to the clearing from the north? Waterfowlers bounce around up here and never seem to notice that weather conditions affect everything and the western PA deer hunter is just a lout in a tree. Beer cans in the woods.

I know a lot of them are coming into this later in life and I'm 3/4 of a numbnuts, too. Im no Tim, Phred, or Bloodhound and Im a dilettant compared to DurangoPipe. There's hope for us all but for the love of all that is holy, there's more to hunting than a 4 door short bed, a 5k dollar shotgun, and a yeti cooler!

Harrumph.

[FredS]

Regarding Salt Life stickers - I know right?
There should be some rules. If you live more than eighty miles from the beach you shouldn't have them. If you used to live close to the beach but have moved you have two months to remove them. You shouldn't put them on a Porsche Cayenne. If you live in Kansas and buy a Salt Life shirt in Cabo, you should give it to a homeless dude in San Diego or burn it when you return home.

Don't even get me started on Ron Jon Surf Shop stickers.

[Hugo Drax]

I don't care if you're a vagabond surf hippie on the North Shore of Oahu, you have no business with a Salt Life or Ron Jon decal on your vehicle. Will freely admit to accepting a quiet Ducks Unlimited decal.

[FredS]

A DU sticker or even a Bone Collector sticker is fine in my book if you're a hunter who's representin'. One that shows a half-dozen ducks dropping in and says "Whack 'Em" might be over the line.

I watched a Duck Camp Dinners episode last night. Pretty entertaining. They talk like Tim.