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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Account Deleted" data-source="post: 81441" data-attributes="member: 886">Several pieces to the puzzle John. First a history lesson. Minnesota used to be the Mecca of duck hunting. If you were a duck hunter, MN is where you wanted to live. The current state of MN is complete shit. They screwed up all their wetlands and it's tough to find a duck let alone a limit. So where does the MN duck hunter turn? To the state with no trespass law. SD has a trespass law and you have to apply for a lottery. The other central flyway states start to be a bit of a drive. Now, waterfowl are nothing like pheasants. They are highly concentrated in comparison. In a given township let's say, there may be 5 huntable fields while a pheasant or two can be found in just about every patch of cattails or fence line. So, competition becomes pretty damn fierce. In about 2001 if I remember right, the number of NR duck hunters started to rise in jumps. If you graph it, it looks like exponential growth. The numbers have plateaued and holds somewhere around 25 - 30 thousand (I'd have to check the numbers again). Resident numbers are about the same. To sum up, it is a titty sprinkling mess. The answer is less hunters (both resident and non resident, about 25-40% total) and get hunters to spread out more geographically and over the course of the season. Neither of which will happen because people come here the opener and when the migration hits hard. Both very predictable. The legislature sets the units, which they have no business doing because they have no clue why they even did it.</blockquote>

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