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cmgee67 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 9:16 am Ducks are not on a points system anymore.

6 ducks per person per day. Some ducks you can only shoot two or three of. Only a certain amount of hens or drakes. Some you can shoot all hens or all drakes to make your 6. The points system hasn’t been around in a long time.

Get on Texas Paris and wildlife and you will see the limits on different species

As you can tell I don't really duck hunt as others do, so I was unaware the point system had been done away with! The last formal waterfowl hunt I went on was a goose hunt in Hereford Tx, I got two geese and a duck, my dad got two ducks and a goose, if memory serves, I believe we were allowed 2 geese and three ducks, but I might be wrong on that! The single biggest memory was when shooting hour arrived and the first shot fired, the geese coming up off the water blotted out the sun! There were thousands of them!

I have hunted duck but it's more of an opportunistic approach, if you have access to a property with several ponds, the best strategy is to approach the pond with the wind to your back, ducks are fairly heavy birds and have to take off into the wind to gain altitude quickly, if you approach the pond from the windward side they'll have to fly towards you to get airborne! That is your opportunity to bag one! Also duck are on a federal point system, be sure you know how to identify the different ducks and how many points they are worth!
I'm not a huge fan of duck meat but I have found a way that they are good, filet the meat off the breast, pound it flat with a meat tenderizer and then soak it over night in Orange juice in the frig and then chicken fry it like a chicken fried steak! Very good that way!