How rice industry might be influencing duck hunting. When I first started reading this article, I thought it was about how well rice pairs with duck, leading to more duck hunting. Ironically, it’s about how rice drives away the main course. That’s the Buzz from americanpress.com:
“I talk to hunters every day and from them I’m finding out that the number of ducks in our area is just not what they used to be,” Buzzy Brunot (above) said. “I can remember shooting mallards in a pond where Memorial Hospital stands right now. And one of the area’s biggest rice mills was on the northwest corner of Sallier and Ryan streets.
Turns out Buzzy’s uniquely qualified to offer an explanation for LA’s great duck disappearance.
Buzzy Brunot was renowned as one of the area’s top fast-pitch softball players during those decades and is a member of the state Hall of Fame.
No, not that.
He was also a rice inspector for the federal government for 30 years and was often called to Washington D.C. and other areas in the USA for his expert opinion on anything dealing with the grain.
That, along with his many years as a hunter, he feels, qualifies him to offer an opinion.
“When I first started with the grain division (1954), the rice that farmers in the area were planting were short grain and medium grain,” he said. “Later, farmers found that they could get a better yield with long-grain rice.”
Rice facts ahead!
Statistics show that in the state in the 1980s, short and medium grains accounted for 65 percent of the rice grown in Louisiana while just two years ago long-grain rice made up 85 percent of the rice grown. Also, different varieties of the long-grain rice have been developed that gives a better yield and works better in the state’s climate. Louisiana is listed as the third-largest producer of rice in the USA.
And ducks’ dinner preference is . . .
Brunot said mallards, as well as other ducks, prefer the short- and medium-grain rice.
“The long-grain rice, when it is in the rough stage, has a hull on it that has a sharp point,” he said. “This point gets into the ducks’ craw (opening part of its digestive system) and sticks.
“Ducks don’t like that so they begin to eat other food.”
Like the food found in . . .
Brunot noted that Arkansas farmers have continued to plant short- and medium-grain rice, and therein lies his theory.
“I think that this is helping Arkansas keep the ducks up there because we’re just not getting near the number that we used to.”
Ducks prefer the food in its natural state [sic] rather than risking a meal in sportsman’s paradise. Who knew? Besides Buzzy.
Points for firearms ignorami. 1. Guns don’t kill people. 2 Apes with guns kill people.3 Ignore Rami and anyone else who tells you different
1) Guns don’t shoot themselves. They require a human operator, regardless how many times you read the lie, “the firearm discharged” in a police report of a negligent discharge.
2) “Military style” guns are no more dangerous or deadly than grandpa’s hunting rifle. Sometimes less so.
3) People with government-issued permits to carry guns have proven to be less dangerous than the rest of the population.
Two Kimber reviews in about a week’s time – nice! My Kimber Pro Carry II Two tone 9mm’s instruction manual has break-in instructions. I would imagine this isn’t any different, which is probably why after enough rounds for break-in you were seeing a noticeable improvement. My Kimber only had 1 malfunction during the break-in process. None with the factory supplied mag (the one malf. was w/ a MecGar mag on its first use). Been flawless since. As I think I said in your other Kimber K6S review – I love my Kimber and want to buy another one someday – possibly this 10mm Camp guard if I find myself camping or out in the woods more frequently than I have been the last few years.
My only question is. Who the hell is she? I’ve never seen or heard of her before this !
With that many competing interests involved, this won’t be duck soup to solve.
Meanwhile the next time I have a hankering for a Bloomin’ Onion I’ll eat there with my customary armament. They can discourage exercise of my personal rights, and I can personally flout their discouragement. It is a very convenient arrangement that harms no one except the one who deigns to take advantage of the gun-free/rob-everyone zone the company so self-righteously established.
Vote another socialist into office you dumb asses! What did you expect? That Democrat Government you wanted, you got!
I don’t understand you people! Democrats take your guns, they couldn’t care less about the Constitution unless it benefits them! They think they are so smart! Chicago, no gun zone, most murders there than anywhere! Common sense escapes democrats! That government you have in New York City is Communist! Don’t come south because we don’t want the same dumbass people down here, that voted in those communists! Bang-Bang! Practice that with your finger in the mirror you idiots!
Eh, if someone can walk off getting stabbed with a big-ass knife like that, I doubt 6 rounds of .22 short would do much to wreck his day, either.
If that does end up happening, though, make sure to get his Cyberdyne model number before he puts his fist through your torso.
Every school should be a hard target. Feelings be damned.
The whole election was so ironic. Hillary would have beaten just about anybody except Donald Trump. On the other hand just about anybody else on the national stage could have beaten Donald.