Stan, it has been quite a surprise to me that on this site, where people are so passionate about double guns, and clearly love their waterfowling, the participants on this thread have shown no knowledge of the management system that makes their waterfowling possible.

If a flyway council ordered the reduction in Mallard harvest to 2 birds /day, that is evidence of a catastrophic situation.

It's not a grand conspiracy promulgated by entrenched bureaucrats to deny sportsmen their pleasure.

Something has gone wrong in the Atlantic flyway, and the bag reductions are essentially a last ditch (short of outright closure)effort to save the resource.

Out there doing it best I can.