9/19/2023 0 Comments Hunter mountain duck jump![]() ![]() In short, when the folks out in Dakota call a man a pothole shooter they mean he’s a duck hunter, thirty-third degree.Īnd now Doc and Sam, another apostle of pothole shooting, had invited me to go along with them and see for myself. He takes ’em without trickery or subterfuge-or drives back to town without a single bird in the bag. He stalks ducks the way a good deer hunter stalks whitetails. ![]() He matches wits with bluewing teal and mallards and pintails on their terms. He lies in the wild sunflower tangles without blind or decoys and waits for his birds to come in of their own free will. He crawls 100 yards on his belly for a chance at a single. What they mean is he takes his ducks the hard way. They don’t mean pothunter, not by a long shot. When they say that about a man out there in the prairie country they’re paying him a pretty high compliment. We stood there beside the cars and watched the overcast dawn break across the wide and empty South Dakota prairie, and it came over me that I was about to learn a new brand of duck hunting.ĭoc Post, they had told me back in the town of Mitchell, where he lives, is a pothole shooter. “We can sneak through that standing corn and get right up to ’em without any crawling if we’re careful.” “Might as well start here as any place,” he remarked. “Legal shooting in ten minutes,” he announced. “Likely there’s six or eight that didn’t leave. “Flock of thirty or forty pintails got out of that last pothole when I drove past,” he explained. We pulled up beside Doc’s car and stepped down to see what he wanted. Sam Weller and I planned to hunt pheasants later in the day, but Doc had an afternoon appointment-filing down somebody’s bridgework-and would head back to town around noon. We had had to drive two cars that morning. This story, “A Shot at Pothole Ducks,” originally ran in the November 1947 issue of Outdoor Life.ĭOC POST stopped his car, with the duck boat lashed on top, at the crest of a low rise in the prairie road and waited for us. ![]()
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