Posted By:
Drake26
Guest
Upstate 11-15-2006 10:03
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 45-50 Degrees
Only one week to go, I can’t wait. Seeing plenty of mallards, GWT, gadwalls, a few blacks and some ringers. The opener should be interesting. Good luck to All!!!
Posted By:
Drake26
Guest
Upstate 11-01-2006 15:07
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
3weeks from today!!! Can’t wait!!!!!!
Got a pretty good number of new ducks showing up daily. mallards, teal, gadwalls, wigeons and a lot of ringnecks showed up yesterday.
Posted By:
PJ-Perea
Guest
Delta Waterfowl Events Oct/Nov 10-27-2006 08:48
– – –
Columbia, SC – Midlands
Chairperson: Bill Bennett (803) 532-1026
October 27, 2006 Dinner
Lower Richland County – Belle Grove Plantation – Gate Opens at 6pm
For more information please contact Bill Bennett (803) 767-8246
Conway, SC – Coastal Palmetto
Chairperson: Jason Wallace (843) 248-2609
November 18, 2006 Dinner
Conway, SC – SC National Guard Armory 16th Ave. – Social 5pm Dinner 7pm
For more information please contact Jason Wallace (843) 248-2609
Posted By:
PJ-Perea
Guest
DU Events Oct/Nov 10-27-2006 08:27
– – –
Event Details: Ducks Unlimited SCDU Inshore Fishing Tournament
When: Saturday, October 28, 2006
Event Type: Other
Location: Georgetown
Contact Name: Michael Toemmes
Phone: (843)833-5415
Event Details: Western York Ducks Unlimited Membership Banquet
When: Monday, October 30, 2006 6:00 p.m.
Event Type: Banquet
Location: River Hills Country Club
Contact Name: Joe Johnson
Phone: (803)684-4271
Contact Email: joe@dunlapjohnson.com
Event Details: Ducks Unlimited Marion / Mullins Membership Banquet
When: Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Event Type: Banquet
Location: Marion
Contact Name: Ashley Brady
Phone: (843)423-1212
Event Details: Ducks Unlimited Columbia Membership Banquet
When: Thursday, November 02, 2006
Event Type: Banquet
Location: Columbia – State Fairgrounds
Contact Name: Andy Stevenson
Phone: (803)513-5739
Event Details: Spartanburg Ducks Unlimited Membership Banquet
When: Thursday, November 02, 2006 6:00 p.m.
Event Type: Banquet
Location: Piedmont Interstate Fairgrounds
Contact Name: Jamie Mintz
Phone: (864)809-6111
Contact Email: mintzscrap@charter.net
Event Details: Ducks Unlimited Berkeley County Fall Harvest Banquet
When: Thursday, November 02, 2006
Event Type: Banquet
Location: Moncks Corner
Contact Name: Shea McMakin
Phone: (843)810-9653
Event Details: Ducks Unlimited Grand Strand Membership Banquet
When: Friday, November 03, 2006
Event Type: Banquet
Location: Garden City – SBB 4 Corners
Contact Name: Rick Baumann
Phone: (843)457-8126
Event Details: Ducks Unlimited Kingstree Membership Banquet
When: Thursday, November 09, 2006
Event Type: Banquet
Location: Kingstree
Contact Name: Shannon Coker
Phone: (843)356-9723
Posted By:
PJ-Perea
Guest
Congrats to Mike Prince of Goose Creek SC 10-16-2006 08:53
– – –
Duck & Goose Calling Contest Draws National Competitors
Hanover, Maryland – The air around Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World – Baltimore was saturated with the sounds of ringing duck calls and hailing goose calls when four waterfowl calling contests were held there on September 30.
Mike Prince from Goose Creek, South Carolina and Charles Petty form Harrisburg, Arkansas won First Place in the Chesapeake Bay Regional Open Duck Calling Championship and the Susquehanna Flats Regional Open Duck Calling Championship respectively, to earn a spot in the World’s Championship Duck Calling Contest in Stuttgart, Arkansas on November 25.
The rules for the new Bass Pro Shops RedHead ‘Over/Under’ Team Goose Calling Championship were the same as for any other open contest. The difference was that one contestant must be age 17 or ‘under’; the other contestant must be ‘over’ the age of 17.
The following are the results of the calling contests.
Chesapeake Bay Regional Open Duck Calling Championship – Sanctioned:
1 Mike Prince, Goose Creek, SC – Echo Calls
2 Charles Petty, Harrisburg, AR – RNT Calls
3 Mike Pauley, Ashland City, TN – Echo Calls
Chesapeake Bay Open Goose Calling Championship:
1 Allan Stanley, Dover, DE – Allan Stanley Calls
2 Jacob Stanley, Dover, DE – Allan Stanley Calls
3 Justin Culver, Quantico, MD – Bay Country Calls
Bass Pro Shops RedHead Over/Under Team Goose Calling Championship:
1 John Taylor/Josh Taylor, both of Quantico, MD – Bay Country Calls
2 Allan Stanley/Jacob Stanley, both of Dover, DE – Allan Stanley Calls
3 Josh Neuwiller, Federalsburg, MD/ Edward Roe, Cordova, MD – Sean Mann Outdoors
Susquehanna Flats Regional Open Duck Calling Championship – Sanctioned:
1 Charles Petty, Harrisburg, AR – RNT Calls
2 John Taylor, Quantico, MD – Allan Stanley Calls
3 Scott Bauswell, Salisbury, MD – Allan Stanley Calls
How it works: The scene is a duck or goose blind. A flock has been sighted and the callers’ intent is to attract the birds into gun range.
Callers create a calling routine that begins with ‘hail’ or greeting calls. The purpose of these calls is to attract the attention of distant ducks or geese. Once the imaginary flock turns in the direction of the caller, his next series are called ‘flock’ calls to simulate birds on the ground (the decoys) calling to the overhead flock to keep their attention. In the scenario, something unforeseen happens and the flock turns away. The caller then issues ‘comeback’ calls. The flock is hooked and then called to ground with the ‘laydown’ or landing calls. These calls are required and must be done in order and under a 90-second time limit. Each routine is similar, yet different in tone and volume based on the callers’ ability to create the illusion of one flock (the caller) calling to another. Each contest is judged by unseen waterfowl experts who listen to the quality of the calls and score the calls on a point system. The identities of the callers are unknown to the judges.
Posted By:
PJ-Perea
Guest
Savannah River 09-29-2006 12:21
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
My friend punched his first goose this morning. Very few birds in the air. Mostly mallards mixed with woodies when they do buzz by. Only saw one group of teal all morning.
Posted By:
PJ-Perea
Guest
Moderate drought declared for Savannah River Basin 09-28-2006 08:11
– – –
State and local Drought Response Committee members declared a “moderate” drought for the Savannah River Basin during a meeting Wednesday, Sept. 20 in Columbia based on the hydrologic conditions in the basin. The state agency members of the drought response committee voted to declare a moderate drought in Oconee, Pickens, Anderson, Abbeville, McCormick, Edgefield, Aiken, Barnwell, Allendale, Hampton and Jasper counties. The state agency representatives of the drought response committee declared an incipient drought on Aug. 16. Recent rains have not improved the hydrologic conditions with lake levels continuing to decline. The U.S Army Corps of Engineers upgraded the drought status for the Savannah River Basin to the second stage of drought on Aug. 28. Moderate drought means there is an increasing threat of a drought as demonstrated by drought indices. The primary indices driving this declaration were the sustained decline in reservoir levels and decline in ground water resources. For more information about drought, visit the Office of State Climatology Web site at http://www.dnr.sc.gov/climate/sco/ or contact State Climatologist Hope Mizzell at (803) 734-9100 in Columbia.
Posted By:
PJ-Perea
Guest
South Carolina Teen Takes Shot at Olympic Dream 09-28-2006 08:09
– – –
U.S. OLYMPIC TRAINING CENTER, Colorado Springs, Colo.?Sixteen-year-old shotgunner Aaron Cobb of Moore, S.C., took a step forward in fulfilling his Olympic dream this past week at the U.S. Olympic Training Center.
Cobb, considered among the top talents in the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s (NSSF) Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP), spent last week fine-tuning his shooting skills with U.S. Olympic shotgun coach Lloyd Woodhouse and his staff at this year’s U.S. Junior Olympic Development Camp. The camp concluded Sept. 24.
Cobb was one of only 19 young shotgunners accepted from SCTP, which includes more than 8,300 young trap, skeet and sporting clays shooters nationwide. He was selected through an application and interview process by NSSF, which co-sponsored a portion of the costs. USA Shooting was a major partner.
“I have a goal of one day becoming an Olympian, and this is just one of the stepping-stones,” Cobb said. “It’s been great to learn from the coaches here, learning their tricks of the trade. It’s been a real influence on me and has bettered my shooting.”
As for Cobb’s future plans in the sport, he said: “My goal for the next year or two is to make the Junior Olympic team.”
Daily activities at the Olympic camp start at sunup, with the 19 young shooters assembling for physical training exercises in one of the Olympic facility’s gymnasiums. They then move on to the athletes’ cafeteria for a hearty meal, seated shoulder-to-shoulder with scores of other Olympic hopefuls and a handful of seasoned Olympic veterans from many different sports. The group then heads for the equipment locker room where they pick up their shotguns and begin the 15-minute drive to the U.S. Olympic Shooting Park at Fort Carson.
The young shotgunners spend their entire day at the range firing many hundreds of shells to help perfect their technique under the eye of the U.S. national team’s coaching staff. As the sun goes down, the athletes return to the Olympic training center for a hot shower and a warm meal, followed by classroom work on nutrition, setting goals, maintaining physical training programs and the nuances of mentally preparing for high-level competition. Then it’s off to the visiting athlete dorms for a good night’s sleep.
With more than three decades of top-flight coaching experience, coach Woodhouse knows how to spot emerging talent and bring out the very best in his athletes at the big matches. Six of the last nine U.S. medals in Olympic shooting have come from his shotgun teams.
Woodhouse said he isn’t looking for simply great shooters for the U.S. Olympic team, but is seeking the ones who also have a dream.
“We don’t want people just to make the Olympic team. We want them to have a dream, a dream to medal at the Olympic Games and know along the way what they have to do and how they have to get there in order to achieve those goals,” Woodhouse said.
“This Scholastic Clay Target Program is unbelievable to me,” Woodhouse said. “Some years ago, I started a junior Olympic shotgun team because we didn’t have a resource for young people who wanted to pursue the Olympic dream. And now, my heavens, there are 8,000 people this year in this program. As the national coach, I just can’t think of anything that pleases me more.”
Since its inception six years ago, the popularity of SCTP has skyrocketed. The program has grown to include more than 8,300 youths in 41 states. SCTP has also experienced remarkable growth in female participation. This year, more than 1,000 female youths participated, a 50 percent increase from 2005 and a 178 percent leap from 2004.
The SCTP athletes selected to this year’s U.S. Junior Olympic Development Camp are considered some of the program’s all-around best.
“These young athletes are some of the Scholastic Clay Target Program’s finest, and this week they demonstrated exactly why they were chosen for this opportunity,” said Zach Snow of NSSF. “We are thrilled to be able to provide such a great opportunity for these young talents. And there’s a chance we might see them on the medal stand someday representing our sport and our nation.”
NSSF, formed in 1961, is the non-profit trade association for the firearms industry. NSSF directs a variety of outreach programs to promote greater participation and a better understanding of shooting sports, emphasizing safe and responsible ownership of firearms. For more information, visit www.nssf.org.
Posted By:
PJ-Perea
Guest
Savannah River 09-28-2006 08:04
– – –
My friend went out yesterday. did not fire a shot. Not much flying on SC side. Ga side was sporadically shooting. Pretty quiet otherwise.
Posted By:
PJ-Perea
Guest
Savannah River 09-25-2006 16:00
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Hunted the Teal opener. My buddy and I shot two teal and he blasted a nice monster goose. Not much flying otherwise. A few wood ducks and mallards in the mix. Very slow overall.
