LOUISIANA SOLO DUCK HUNT CHALLENGE (It worked!!!)

Ever since I’d heard of people using painted jugs as decoys I’ve wanted to give it a shot and today is finally that day. I picked up some gallon jugs, black paint, lead sinkers, string and got to making my “Decoys”.
Once at the blind I placed them out instead of throwing them like I normally would and immediately lost a couple. I did not tie them correctly 😖. But we still had plenty enough to get the job done.
After getting skirted a few times early in the morning, there being very few birds flying, and missing a few shots my confidence began to dwindle. But finally I had 2 hen dogris work great, and 4 shots and one reload later they were in the water.
The rest of the day went by mostly watching dogris work or skirt my decoys with the occasional mottled duck passing by and me whiffing more shots.
Overall it wasn’t the hunt I wanted, but it was about as expected. I just hoped there would be more big ducks present.
So yes, you can shoot ducks over painted jugs. Do you need to buy the more expensive decoys? Probably not, at least for dogris. Would I recommend against having actual duck decoys? Absolutely not lol. You will likely finish more ducks hunting over actual decoys. Jugs could work for fillers to make your spread bigger though.
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[@fallingtidetv]

Old school stuff right there! Keep on creating and showing the world what Louisiana is all about. Great video 👍🏼

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

For sure bro. I should have went further with the old school camo and wood stock pump while hunting out of the pirogue 😂. Maybe next time.

[@JaredRMorgan]

Now that’s a nice shirt. Lmao. The oldie but goodie. Thanks for reppin’ dat. 🥰

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

I stomp around all over the northshore advertising 🤣.

[@Baroldbean]

Loving seeing someone from South Louisiana doing KZbin duck hunting videos. I hunt Big Branch and Pearl River and I am smashing the like and subscribe button.

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

Right on. Thanks for stopping by. There’s a few of us making good videos right now. I recently moved to the northshore and been wanting to try big branch out. How has your season been so far?

[@Baroldbean]

@@Unchartered_Outdoors pretty slow but hoping it will pick up soon. Trying out the pearl Friday.

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

Good luck! 👍🏻

[@marmar1079]

Surprised to see that worked! Looks like you have some new cost effective decoys.

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

Hell yea!

[@RaztechPowersports]

Old school! Love it 🤘🏻

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

Oh yea. Sometimes the old timers know what they’re talking about 😂.

[@deb_dear]

Love this. Thanks for the jugs

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

Yea it was a fun little experiment.

[@PursueHandcrafted]

This is awesome! Willing to go out there and invest your time in something that may or may not work! Tons of respect to you man! Also funny, I have to look up all the duck species you see and shoot... Up here in Ohio, I have it pretty easy... Mallard, Mallard, and whats that? Oh another Mallard.

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

Lol yea I was a little worried about doing this hunt. It was the last hunt before the seasons split, so if there were ducks and they wouldn’t work I would have been pretty annoyed. Luckily things went well. And we call ducks some crazy things down here in louisiana. So some of the names may not be the normal names you regularly hear. Like a scaup down here is a dogris. We hardly get mallards on our lease. So we get excited seeing a little green lol.

[@scuba9292]

Nice. Glad it worked. I always wanted to try painting 2 liter bottles black and leaving cap white. Kinda resembling a coot

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

Yea I think it would work. Especially if you are just mixing it in with other decoys as a filler.

[@brandonchiasson7491]

We grew up using bottles we always leave 100 out and paint the tip white to look like coots and a lot birds would land in them

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

It’s pretty crazy how we, not you or I specifically but duck hunters as a whole, buy into the marketing of the high end expensive decoys when the birds aren’t actually as smart as we give them credit. Do you hunt Louisiana? I hear a lot of people load Catahoula Lake up with jugs. Thanks for stopping by the channel 🤙🏻.

[@danal9197]

Echo wanted that duck for himself.Come on what was going on with that aim. But it is crazy that jugs actually work.

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

Yea he was walking away with it 😂.

[@WookOutdoors]

We may have to try it out

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

If you do paint the inside of the jugs, not the outside, also I would mix gallons with 2 liters just to get some different sizes in there. Good luck!

[@fannyfisherman1448]

I’m from south Texas so I don’t think we have those here, or at least I’ve never heard of them. But what are dogrey? Is that their real name? Just curious?

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

Dogris is an old Cajun term for scaup or blue bill. Basically everyone in LA calls them dogris.

[@joseduran7368]

I bet these would work so much better when mixed in with other decoys

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

Probably so. I hear a lot of old timers use jugs mixed in with real decoys all the time. I want to retry it with a few twists.

[@jakebasco446]

I’m from Louisiana in my area they have always used black jugs.

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

Yea that’s what I’m hearing. I hear they’re heavily used around Catahoula Lake.

[@jakebasco446]

Lol yes they do. I’m in that area with cat. All this nice cold weather after season

[@hailleybertucci257]

I can't believe the ducks came into jugs!

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

Yep. It actually works!

[@matthewmangelli119]

Me neither! Really good stuff here

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

I was really starting to doubt it would work too.

[@TheKevinwildman]

Does it work for mallards and geese?

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

I’d imagine it will work with mallards. Idk about geese though as I don’t have much experience with them.

[@davidblanchard9514]

I am from St.bernard. I am right by you?

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

Yep. Our lease is in Delacroix.

[@coopernickerson370]

Anything that floats will fool the ducks. Next time try a flag to get their attention.

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

Not a bad idea.

[@brittanymoore2597]

I’m glad that the jugs actually worked for you! Do you think you’ll keep the jugs around to use again?

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

Me too! I was pretty unsure about it

[@mikelavarine5060]

It was interesting to see that you can actually shoot ducks with jugs for decoys. I didn't think it would work.

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

Yea I just wish there were more big duck in the area to try decoying.

[@christianmoore4989]

Dip them in tar . Works way better

[@Unchartered_Outdoors]

I’ll try that next time. I also heard painting the inside is better as well which makes sense.