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Yesterday afternoon we had a group of 5 mallards and a black duck work us 3 times, they would come in but wanted nothing to do with the blind. They'd come in and sail, looking everything over go off and come back again. Finally they left for good. In all that the black kept his distance from the mallards but still hung with them, at no time did he mingle in the group. I don't get to see blacks much and that was the first time I got to see a show like that. With the sun out and low plus a clear sky I could see the colors etc. perfectly. That little episode confirmed stuff I'd read about blacks.
Y'all ever notice the same when you've seen them with other dux?
 
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Killed a true black a few days ago that was hooked up with a pintail. Thought it was over before it started but ended up getting her after the pintail did pintail things and flew off.
 
Growing up in ETN, we had a bunch of black ducks on the lakes I hunted. They were terrible about "leading off" a group of mallards wanting to commit. I made a point of shooting one every chance I got (until the point system years) as payback for the times they screwed me.
 
Never known them to be more wary than mallards as they say. I see them mixed with mallards on the water and the air regular. Right in there amongst them.

I usualy put a pair with my mallards, together but in with the mallards.
 
Was lucky enough to get this one.
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I bought a half dozen G and H black duck decoys a few years back when I duck hunted a lot. Like SCN said, in East Tn we tend to get a few blacks in here, so I always carried some. I always put the black duck decoys away from my mallard decoys. They would be maybe 20 yards away. Never mixed them in with mallard decoys and if there was a black duck in the group you could assure it would peel off to the black duck decoys. I'm pretty sure the limit back then was 1 so we always felt good about not killing one by mistake
 
I've seen a few, they definitely favor the Atlantic of course. I hunt a lot with folks from northeast TN and CKY and they have all killed a few. Never had one in range but see them occasionally. Bought a half dozen decoys that have been in the spread since 2017.

I've killed surf scoters, black scoters, white winged scoters, canvasback, redhead, gwt, bwt, woodies, mallard, pintail, wigeon, lesser scaup, greater scaup, ruddy duck, goldeneye, common merganser, red breasted merganser, hooded merganser, bufflehead, shoveler, gadwall, ringneck, Barrow's goldeneye, and a old squaw in ETN. Don't see them much south of Knoxville.

Really want one
 

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