I Shot A RARE MALLARD! (Limited Out) | SOLO Late Season Duck Hunting 2021

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2 жыл бұрын

Matt is out on an unseasonably warm December day to do some duck hunting with his 28 gauge. He passes on several opportunities early to hold out for mallards and it's a good thing he did. Matt bags one of the weirdest mallards he's ever seen in person. Ducks are stale but Matt made it work and ended with a limit and a crazy looking mallard. Another great day of duck hunting.
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@ernesthercher5193 5 ай бұрын

After 50+ years of hunting in Arkansas timber it’s fun to see a different kind of duck hunting. You shoot that 28 really nice. I may have to look into getting a 28.

@HighPrairieSportsmen 5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@philipmccumbee3624 2 жыл бұрын

You see more ducks in 30 minutes than I do in 30 days. I shoot if it is a good shot. It is hard to believe you pass up so many shots. Be glad you are in an area where there are plenty of ducks. 95% of what I shoot are woodies. I really enjoy your solo hunts. I hunt alone most of the time. Keep the videos coming.

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Phil! Definitely don't take it for granted.

@davewatson3398 2 жыл бұрын

Nice shoot- particularly with the 28ga. The unusual duck looks beautiful; gotta get him mounted. Love your vids👍

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! He was a stud

@carrolldolson2269 2 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest x’s is being set up & ready 30 minutes ahead of shooting x & watching the ducks land in your spread. Great hunt! Thank you.

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it!

@bjorn1235 2 жыл бұрын

Great to watch your movies. You're serious. I'm watching from Sweden. Wish I could sit in the reeds with you.

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Appreciate that!

@chrispolk93 2 жыл бұрын

Wall hanger for sure. Great stuff Matt. These small water spots are my favorite hunts of yours. Just good ole duckin

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris! Hard to beat small water

@Bean_Waterfowl1026 2 жыл бұрын

Another awesome video bro keep them coming !!!

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

@tokeyboswell2286 2 жыл бұрын

Gorgeous mallard. Shot the tail right off that last one! Way to stick it out.

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah, that last one was close

@kraigkaatz6858 2 жыл бұрын

That's a very pretty duck... another fabulous video Matt... wonderful hunt. BLESSINGS

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Kraig!

@coopernickerson370 2 жыл бұрын

That’s a nice white winged mallard, Mr 28. Keep up the good work with the video.

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Cooper!

@SomewhereInWisconsin 2 жыл бұрын

Nice hunt Matt! Cool spot right there.

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks buddy!

@Dieseloutdoors 2 жыл бұрын

Nice hunt dude. Looked like so much fun. That spot rules.

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@ksoutdoorsports 2 жыл бұрын

Love that marsh, and the hide was very effective.

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@RyanMOutdoors 2 жыл бұрын

Cool looking mallard. Yes it has been to warm for new birds.

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely! Need a cold front

@northerntribeoutdoors5938 2 жыл бұрын

Those mallards that spend time in the nuclear power plant cooling cooling ponds do color a bit funny. lol. Nice hunt and you got some wigeon! I have been having a spoonie kind of year. Shot more spoonies than the last few years combined! Season is going well and you are having a great season. Thanks for the great content.

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

😂😂 thanks man! I don't remember the last time I saw a spoonie

@tomwolters214 Жыл бұрын

Great hunt! Much of the time, simpler is better!

@HighPrairieSportsmen Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@twaynerobert8944 2 жыл бұрын

🦆🔥🔥🔥🔥 Nice pile and great hunt!

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@chucksmith5002 2 жыл бұрын

Matt first off great hunt and that one Mallard is a Mounter for sure. Second we need some cold Weather we are still haven 80 deg. weather and we are in our 2nd. week of the last part of the season. Enjoyed it

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chuck! Too warm everywhere this year.

@mikeumphrey-waytogokennels2526 2 жыл бұрын

That's pretty cool! I shot a drake mallard yesterday with white curls on its tail

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I've never even heard of one like that

@seanehmke9208 2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes the most enjoyment is not shooting. Good hunt!

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Nailed it Sean! Just as fun watching them work and taking it all in.

@jackmasters9953 2 жыл бұрын

Great hunt HPS. What state are you in? Keep the videos coming 😃😃😃

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Nebraska

@jacobcasadonte1189 2 жыл бұрын

Worked for a taxidermist skinning birds in Casper wy for a time someone brought in a mallard with frosted tips like that once, really neat. Not quite as nice as that one that’s the only two I’ve ever heard of. Pretty work Matt

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@rossgleason6693 2 жыл бұрын

Great hunt! Wishing for weather in Washington State as well.

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@mvec646 2 жыл бұрын

Look forward to seeing your new 28 in videos.

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

First vid coming next week

@antoinelecat960 2 жыл бұрын

Hello for France again. I'm looking your videos for a thew days. Nice videos and nice shoots. It's interresting to compare the way you hunt ducks in USA with the french methods. Just for fun: the name of some of your ducks comes from old french. Your wingeon is called "whistling duck" in France but in Normandy it's called Vingeon which became Wigeon in english. It's quite the same for your mallard duck which is called "Green head duck" here but the drake is a "maillard", an old french word, which became "mallard" in english.

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! That's super interesting. I'd love to know more of the names if there are any.

@antoinelecat960 2 жыл бұрын

@@HighPrairieSportsmen No more similar to the name used in USA. The most hunted ducks in France are the Green Wing Teal (Sarcelle d'hiver), the mallard (canard colvert), the shoveler (canard souchet), the wingeon (canard siffleur), the gadwall (canard chipeau), the pintail (canard pilet) and the Summer Teal (Sarcelle d'été). We can also hunt other species : the most important group is the diving ducks like your read head (fuligule milouin), the tufted ducks (fuligule morillon), the pochard (fuligule milouinan) and then the sea ducks like the eider (same name), scotts (macreuses noires et brunes) or goldeneye (garrot à oeil d'or) even there are less common.

@gd_gnz 2 жыл бұрын

@@antoinelecat960 thanks for the insight. I love all the history as much as the hunt.

@Bagndux88 2 жыл бұрын

That mallard should be mounted for sure. Great hunt

@jamiesonpetroski8545 2 жыл бұрын

I'd think it should make the wall

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@brannonbryson1048 2 жыл бұрын

Love your videos! Just picked up my first 28gauge, what shot size are you using for your 28 gauge?

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Boss 5s

@stevespoon6163 2 жыл бұрын

Grab yourself a jerk rig for those calm days.... Easy to use and never runs out of battery power!

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, definitely needed one that day

@bigbulls30 2 жыл бұрын

That's a bad ass drake Matt. Putting that one on the wall?

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I saved his wings but he got eaten.

@astakavasta3168 Жыл бұрын

Some sitting ducks! No dog!

@HighPrairieSportsmen Жыл бұрын

I don't have a dog

@4589scott 2 жыл бұрын

Dude, you're a good shot.

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Michelroedeerhunter 2 жыл бұрын

Love your vids! I´m curious though: You take a lot of ducks at pretty close ranges and you said various times that you are a full choke guy. How do you prepare the ducks that got plenty of BB´s? Do you make some kind of soup or stew? I watched a lot of your vids and I thought numerous times: "Oh boy, I would not want to eat that". This is not meant in a bad way, I´m just looking for some recipes.

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I've just been using the full choke in the last few weeks in anticipation of geese. If I'm hunting purely ducks, I'll have a mod or IC in. I have a bunch of recipes and am always trying new ones. Here's a playlist of some of my recipes: kzfaq.info/sun/PL2Vn7fQbYcLBgPbJXkakn24yid7iVXWbs

@Quackk_Addict 2 жыл бұрын

I shot one like that with the frosted tips like that, im about to mount mine and the it's technically a leucistic mallard, just the traits for the leucistic feathers arent all the way... time to add it to my euro wigeon taxidermy

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@jasonwaldon4351 2 жыл бұрын

Is that a new spot you found? It looks new meaning I haven't seen any other videos of you here in past years. Either way that is a hot hole for sure

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

No, just haven't had any videos there before. It takes perfect conditions to be like that, just happened to work out this year.

@jasondean4156 2 жыл бұрын

Great shoot! What part of the country are you in?

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Nebraska

@bobgiles2971 2 жыл бұрын

Nice hunt congrats and definitely would think about hanging the one Mallard on the wall

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bob!

@Rdixon921 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful mallard I'd mount that one 4 sure

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

He was a stud

@jeremy28135 Жыл бұрын

0:53. That is a frameable shot 🌅

@HighPrairieSportsmen Жыл бұрын

For sure!

@gimp6019 2 жыл бұрын

My area of South Dakota is closed already. Still a lot of open water and going to be 50 here tomorrow

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Any cold in the forecast?

@gimp6019 2 жыл бұрын

@@HighPrairieSportsmen Highs still in the 30's, getting rain now, Dec.15 lol

@hardwaterfreaks1828 2 жыл бұрын

Also, next season I want you to do this all with a .22

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@jasonfulcher204 2 жыл бұрын

I would ask Ben peirce on facebook about the color deformation with that one mallard, he is very knowledgeable in hybrid species and deformities in ducks. could have an answer for you about those white wings.

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

I did shortly after getting home. Just a loss of pigment in the some feathers.

@jasonfulcher204 2 жыл бұрын

@@HighPrairieSportsmen darn, I was hoping it would be something cooler. Still a hell of a drake to harvest!

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonfulcher204 me too haha! Still waiting on my mallard/pintail hybrid.

@jasonfulcher204 2 жыл бұрын

@@HighPrairieSportsmen a man can dream haha

@Sageofthedustypage 2 жыл бұрын

I think u need a wading stick make the wading easier when you are collecting birds.

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Haha it would've helped

@capopista 2 жыл бұрын

hello .... it is possible to know what ammunition you use and how you feel with the Benelli Supersport compared to the TriStar ... I don't find this Turkish gun in Italy ... I also go hunting with a Benelli Legacy Cal 28 and it use for all hunts .. really great caliber .. greetings from Italy

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Love the Benelli SuperSport. I use Boss 2 3/4" 5s

@capopista 2 жыл бұрын

@@HighPrairieSportsmen I don't find these Boss2 cartridges .. at what distance can you kill the ducks with 21g cartridges?

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

@@capopista with a 28 gauge, 30 yds and in.

@imahunterdealwithit3486 2 жыл бұрын

Did you mount it?

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

No, I ate him

@fullstrapoutdoors9154 2 жыл бұрын

😎

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

👍🏻

@austinevans3718 2 жыл бұрын

Can you do a patterning video of your 20 and 28 gauge plz

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

I can in the offseason

@austinevans3718 2 жыл бұрын

@@HighPrairieSportsmen thank you

@jasonwaldon4351 2 жыл бұрын

That's leucism in that mallard man. Causes partial pigmentation loss. Ask mid valley mercenaries about it that's where I learned from

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, wasn't sure of it at the time. Pretty cool to see in person

@jamiesonpetroski8545 2 жыл бұрын

Is he gonna make a trip to the taxidermist?

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately not. Saved a wing though.

@devinmiller2179 2 жыл бұрын

I think that it’s a mallard widgeon hybrid

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

No, I talked to a couple waterfowl biologists. They confirmed it's a leucistic trait. A mallard/wigeon hybrid will have a different looking speculum and typically not a solid green head.

@devinmiller2179 2 жыл бұрын

@@HighPrairieSportsmen oh good to know that’s cool that it is leusistic did you mount him

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

@@devinmiller2179 nope, saved the wings and ate it

@deadlysinns9643 2 жыл бұрын

You should mount that bird

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

He was a stud

@ajkulish 2 жыл бұрын

What are your season dates?

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Oct through January if you zone hop

@ajkulish 2 жыл бұрын

@@HighPrairieSportsmen I guess technically same here in Michigan, but it seems like you've been hunting forever haha. Great season and content

@fatazz3177 2 жыл бұрын

Immature drake wigeon before the weird mallard

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

I'm terrible at wigeon ID when they look like that.

@leviayala9810 2 жыл бұрын

Mount that bird!!! could be partly leucistic maybe.

@jamiesonpetroski8545 2 жыл бұрын

He didn't

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

That's what a few said, lack of pigmentation in some feathers.

@duckht183 2 жыл бұрын

Feel free to send some other those ducks out this way.. I’m tired of having to shoot spoons 🤦🏻‍♂️

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

Haha this was a few weeks ago. Most of those birds are in Kanas and Oklahoma now

@duckht183 2 жыл бұрын

@@HighPrairieSportsmen I going to need them to come 1400 miles to the west. Tell them Gavin Newsom’s sanctuary state is a great place to live

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

@@duckht183 😂😂

@minnducker Жыл бұрын

What's with the whispering at the start? We're not in a deer stand, it's duck hunting.

@HighPrairieSportsmen Жыл бұрын

Ducks can hear too...

@Mobbin344 2 жыл бұрын

ive never seen somebody pass on so many good shots and not use all 3 shells when necessary. drives me insane

@jacobsieve9606 2 жыл бұрын

You just never had a really good duck hunt before then, its fun when you can be picky and let birds go

@Mobbin344 2 жыл бұрын

@@jacobsieve9606 yeah you must know all about my hunts lol. It’s just funny to watch him every video pass on so many shots and sit an extra few hours when he could’ve been done in under an hour

@HighPrairieSportsmen 2 жыл бұрын

I love being out hunting. Why would I want that to end quickly?

@Mobbin344 2 жыл бұрын

@@HighPrairieSportsmen if that’s your mindset then good for you I guess. I’ve just never met a waterfowler who would pass up a flock of 50+ under 30 yards or not shoot a second shot after missing the first

@jacobsieve9606 2 жыл бұрын

@@Mobbin344 if youre out there for only the reason of shooting birds, you're doing it all wrong. Watching the birds work and interact the with environment is half the fun. shooting birds is just a plus.