"Cans gone wild" - Canvasback duck hunting

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[hideawayhollow]

I am located in Wisconsin on the Mississippi River. Yes you can only shoot one canvasback per day here most years but there are lots of other ducks to harvest while on the hunt. I havest 20 or more species a year. From mallards to an occasional sea duck. So quite a bit of shooting takes place during a hunt. The feds counted 450,000 Canvasbacks this year just on a couple miles of River this year. When there are only 650k in the world no where else has the numbers of cans like we have.

[Gbwbaseball]

how many cans can yall shoot each?

[hideawayhollow]

@Gbwbaseball It is 1 per person per day. Probably will have one again this year. It is a fairly rare duck which we have a ton of but the rest of the country they can be few and far between. hence the 1 per person. In 2010 my boat averaged over 10 ducks per hunt for the entire season. So besides cans we get a good variety of ducks to shoot aswell as we view the thousands of cans flying around.

[blazebackwater]

Wow nice! if we get groups of 30 on the Columbia it is a big group, those are flat out massive flocks!

[hideawayhollow]

@blazebackwater I have the largest concentration of canvasbacks in the world during peak migration. This year I believe we peaked at 380,000. So the sky can almost turn black with them. I decoy hundreds if not thousands of canvasbacks most days thoughout November. I probably harvest more Canvasbacks than anyone in the world and like to think of myself as the go to outfitter in the country if people are looking to shoot one.

[SuperHathos]

WHY DO YOU KILL A CAN ON THE WATER???? 1:25????? Because you guys are 6 feet behind them in the air... That's why you shoot a CAN on the water... That's exactly why they went from 20 million to 300 thousand in the 20's because of people like you guys,, give it was a Punt gun,, but nevertheless ON THE WATER... Come on guys you're not hurting for food..

[orangepower88]

WOW



[5jordanoz]

this is absolutely incredible.. it looks like Mallards flying around like we have here in Washington.. or Bluebills for that matter.. what part of the country are you in? this is very, very impressive! We have more this year than normal so that is good, tons and tons of redheads as well this year. It's pretty awesome hunting right now on Cans, Redheads, Bluebills, and Wigeon...

[scfloundergig]

@redneckrider250 Well I'm sure they have a chance of shooting some other species like bluebill or something. Besides that though, how could you deny yourself the opportunity to see something like that live? Must be awesome... It's not all about shooting ducks

[dawgman569]

dang ive never seen so many canvasbacks

[redneckrider250]

im not tryin to be a dick but if theres a 1 per person per day limit why would you even waste your time on them ? i dont think i could see myself goin out there and settin up to shoot one bird and leave

[MrGuitars8]

@hideawayhollow Where are you located ? I'd love to hunt some of them and what shot size works best on them ? I've never used faststeel is that the best shell out there or that blackcloud ?

[MrGuitars8]

Well I'd love to get one of those also , what gun/shot setup works best on these ? I see that they have some size and are fast while flying . Blaze where you located I'd love to hunt some of them .

[limbwalker7]

You might say you have the largest concentrations of Cans in the world but obviously you've never been to Lake St Clair on the Ontario/Michigan border, because we too get those type of numbers during peak migration..Good video..