Mount worthy?

[meaux fishing]

Originally Posted by AubreyLaHaye458

Purple feet means they've been in the desert.


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I thought it meant they just flew down from Saskatchewan... Their feet are still frozen

[redspeck82]

Originally Posted by meaux fishing

I thought it meant they just flew down from Saskatchewan... Their feet are still frozen

Kinda my thoughts on it also. If the feet r black and blue it could mean they're artic mallards with frostbite.

[AubreyLaHaye458]

Originally Posted by redspeck82

Kinda my thoughts on it also. If the feet r black and blue it could mean they're artic mallards with frostbite.

Yeah, black and blue from the great north. Purple from the desert. They turn purple when they dry out.


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[bgizzle]

Cool deal guys. Just a thought. But that's a cool fact. If it weren't for SC Ida never known that cool duck info. Thanks again for all the great posts on the topic. I killed a pin with a tramp stamp today.... Should I mount it?


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[Kenner18]

Pics or it didn't happen

[bgizzle]

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Can't see it that well from this angle but it's there....

I believe it says 25 or bust....


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[swamp snorkler]

Lots of win in this thread.

[hankscke123]

Purple feet means they chasing the females getting close but not sealing deal hence blue feet lol.

[AubreyLaHaye458]

Originally Posted by hankscke123

Purple feet means they chasing the females getting close but not sealing deal hence blue feet lol.

Well which is it? Purple or blue?


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[swamp snorkler]

Originally Posted by AubreyLaHaye458

Well which is it? Purple or blue?


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you know what he thought he to type

[SaltERedneck]

All of Gizzle's threads turn out to be classic...




toooo funny.

[AubreyLaHaye458]

Originally Posted by swamp snorkler

you know what he thought he to type

I don't know what you thought you to type either though.


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[swamp snorkler]

Originally Posted by AubreyLaHaye458

I don't know what you thought you to type either though.


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if you remove the "he" it kinds makes since

[Gerenemo]

Nice. Two ways to mount him on the wall or between some onion and potatoes...

[bgizzle]

Originally Posted by SaltERedneck

All of Gizzle's threads turn out to be classic...




toooo funny.

I like it that way! Been hunting every day and this keeps me interested while I sit in blind till 1030. Well, when hormone injected mallards aren't in the decoys.... Or pins with tramp stamps


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[SULPHITE]

hell you should be able to mount anything with a tramp stamp....

[DUCKGOGETTER]

Originally Posted by sulphite

hell you should be able to mount anything with a tramp stamp....

especially you with that sweet hat you was wearing at patricks camp in the pic i got last weekend. Lol!!!!!!!!

[bgizzle]

I was told by old timers that the "red legged" mallards were northerners that migrated and that's how you knew they were new arrivals. Seems I was wrong but after doing research seems it's confused more often than you think. But I was wrong and never afraid to admit it. I thank you guys for teaching me the right thing about them.

Have you ever heard that you can tell where a mallard is from by the color of its feet? As the story goes, the legs and feet of northern mallards are redder than their southern cohorts because low temperatures in higher latitudes cause more blood to flow to the birds’ extremities. These mallards are also thought to be larger and hardier than mallards raised in southern parts of the species’ range. Old-timers called these big, late-migrating mallards “redlegs.”

You can read the rest of article at this link

http://www.ducks.org/conservation/wa...webbed-wonders


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[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by bgizzle

I was told by old timers that the "red legged" mallards were northerners that migrated and that's how you knew they were new arrivals. Seems I was wrong but after doing research seems it's confused more often than you think. But I was wrong and never afraid to admit it. I thank you guys for teaching me the right thing about them.

Have you ever heard that you can tell where a mallard is from by the color of its feet? As the story goes, the legs and feet of northern mallards are redder than their southern cohorts because low temperatures in higher latitudes cause more blood to flow to the birds’ extremities. These mallards are also thought to be larger and hardier than mallards raised in southern parts of the species’ range. Old-timers called these big, late-migrating mallards “redlegs.”

You can read the rest of article at this link

http://www.ducks.org/conservation/wa...webbed-wonders


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I was told the same thing as well. Ducks would come in and someone would inevitably say 'them there is flight ducks, look at them red legs', well they are surely flight ducks because they didn't swim in right?
But yes, the feet and bill and even eye rings of some ducks get more coloration closer to mating season. A wood duck drake in November is a pretty bird no doubt, but much prettier in March.

Keep it in the freezer and if you kill one later in the year thats 'prettier' mount that one and use that other for dog training - unless you have a rock dog

[bgizzle]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

I was told the same thing as well. Ducks would come in and someone would inevitably say 'them there is flight ducks, look at them red legs', well they are surely flight ducks because they didn't swim in right?
But yes, the feet and bill and even eye rings of some ducks get more coloration closer to mating season. A wood duck drake in November is a pretty bird no doubt, but much prettier in March.

Keep it in the freezer and if you kill one later in the year thats 'prettier' mount that one and use that other for dog training - unless you have a rock dog

Yea. I hear ya. I like to share my opinion. But I'll be the first one to say I'm wrong if I am. No big deal. I've killed more since and they were the same way.


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