Welp.....I was bored....so I counted up the acreage on the 18 managed Waterfowl Ca's in the state....my head started hurting so I didn't look long or hard enough to find infor for Fellows Lake, Settle's Ford, or Little River. I've seen Settle's Ford and Little River in person but I'm not sure how much ground they have....Little River is fairly.....well.....little. Settle's Ford has quite a bit of ground, I have no idea about Fellow's lake. It doesn't really matter....not many people hunted these areas on Dec. 20th so I'm more then happy to just leave them off the total acreage.....call them a bonus if you want.

Anyway.....the remaining 15 areas contain 81,123 acres. Here.....let me spell that out.....EIGHTY ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THREE ACRES!!!!!

On Dec. 20....a day in the prime of Missouri dcuk season, and a day typical of most days during the season on Monday - Friday.....604 people were ALLOWED to hunt that ground. I'm giving a HUGE benefit of the doubt when I call it 300 parties.....but I like round numbers and it really doesn't make any difference because whether it's 200 or 300 parties it's still goddamn rediculous.

At 300 parties that leaves 270 acres PER PARTY of publicly managed waterfowl ground in Missouri hunted on that day.

Does anyone here have any idea how many parties can safely hunt on TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY ACRES???? Hell, I know private clubs that have 3 blinds every 40 acres....that's TWENTY ONE parties in the 270 acres that Mostly Duck Control hunts one party.

Yeah....I know this is over simplified....and I realize that some of the ground is refuge....WAY TOO MUCH OF IT!!!

Given Mostly Duck Controls self-imposed rule of 200 yards between parties.....does someone with even more time to waste then I do have any idea how many 200 yard "zones" you can have on 81,000 forking acres??????

Yeah.....it's overly simple.....but the fact is....no one is ever going to convince me that the State's Duck Park's will be overcrowded by opening them up....afterall....we hunt 300 parties on EIGHTY ONE THOUSAND ACRES!!!!!

griffin