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" Local Bucks For Local Ducks "

Regular Monthly Meetings

If you are interested in joining us at our monthly meetings, Click Here for more information and directions to the Sportsmen's Club.

 

2008 Work Parties
     Work Parties have started for the 2008 nesting season. Members started to gather at Mr. John Jelinek's home to build new goose nesting platforms, wood duck houses, and mallard nests. Work party detail includes a controlled burn at the D. Thomas Sporre Marsh and the Jerry Allen Marsh, and cutting some small willows down at the Jerry Allen Marsh, and to check the status on existing nesting structures. Work Parties are planned for every Saturday in January of 2008.

If you would like to help at any of our work parties, please call Don Roberts (219) 322-1545 or John Jelinek (219) 465-7039 for more information.
Detailed information will be posted here on the dates, times, and places of the work parties as they become available. Please check back in the near future for our listing of the work parties, or fell free to contact the chapter by E-Mail or you can Click Here to use our Contact Us form.
 

Wood Duck Houses

Wood Duck House   Would you like to build your own Wood Duck House? Click Here to view plans on constructing a wood duck house. Requires Adobe Reader or you can contact us by E-Mail and request a copy of the plans. If you would like to purchase a wood duck house or make donations for the construction of one of our nesting projects please call John Jelinek (219) 465-7039.

 

 

 

2008 Banquet
     The Northwest Indiana Chapter of Waterfowl U.S.A. will hosting their 21st  Annual Banquet on Saturday April 05, 2008. Social hour begins at 5:00 p.m. Dinner served at 7:00 p.m.
    

Event Location:

Halls of St. George
905 E. Joliet St., Schererville, IN 46375
Just east of Broad St.


Ticket Prices
Sponsor with 2 Dinner Tickets….........$275.00
Membership with 2 Dinner Tickets.....$95.00
Membership with Dinner....................$55.00
Guest Dinner Ticket............................$40.00
Youth Membership with Dinner...........$30.00


Activities Include:
●Cash Bar ● Live Auction ● Raffles
●Door Prizes ● Ladies Table ● Prints
●Bouillet Decoys ● Hunt Trips
●10 Gun Raffle
 

For more information please contact Don Roberts (219) 322-1545 or John Jelinek (219) 465-7039.  Or Click Here to contact us.

 

 

2008 Fall Fun Shoot



     The Northwest Indiana Chapter of Waterfowl U.S.A. will host the Annual Fall Fun Shoot on August 10, 2008 at the Oakwood Gun Club, located in Wheatfield Indiana.

     For more information on this event, please contact Don Roberts (219) 322-1545 or John Jelinek (219) 465-7039. Or you can contact us about this event by e-mail or Click Here to  Contact Us

Event Location:

Oakwood Gun Club
One Mile South of Rt. 10 on Rt. 49
Wheatfield, Indiana
 

Sporting Clays:
Duck Shoot
Low Tower
High Tower
 

Ticket Prices:
Early Tickets…….…..$35.00
Day of Shoot………...$40.00
Includes Food, Pop, Beer

Click Here for a slide show of the 2007 Trap shoot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Horicon Hunters, Rich and Mike Harris

 

2008
HORICON MARSH
GOOSE HUNT

 

Three Day Hunt On Sat., Oct. 11, Sun., Oct. 12, & Mon., Oct. 13, 2008

 

Provided By
WATERFOWL USA
Northwest Indiana Chapter

Click Here  for further details about the 2008
Horicon Marsh Goose Hunt.
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Come join us at the 2008 " Horicon Marsh Goose Hunt" provided by the Northwest Indiana Chapter of Waterfowl U.S.A.

You Can Also Contact
Don E. Roberts (219) 322-1545
Paul Mazerik (219) 644-8409

Email to:info@nwiwusa.org
for more information about this event

 

   

2008 Waterfowl Hunts
Provided by Waterfowl U.S.A.
Northwest Indiana Chapter

The Northwest Indiana Chapter of Waterfowl U.S.A. will be raffling off Waterfowl Hunts for the 2008 Indiana Waterfowl Season. Raffle tickets for the waterfowl hunts will be sold at all chapter events, meetings, and gun shows. Or Click Here to contact us. You may also request information about this event by sending e-mail to info@nwiwusa.org.

     For more details, contact Don Roberts at (219) 322-1545 or John Jelinek at (219) 465-7039.

2008 Deer Hunts
Provided by Waterfowl U.S.A.
Northwest Indiana Chapter


Deer hunting will be allowed at the Don and Mary Roberts Wildlife Area by permit only. A raffle ticket will be sold again this year for hunting the property. Tickets will be sold at all of our events, meetings, gun and sports shows. Or Click Here to contact us. You may also request information about this event by sending e-mail to info@nwiwusa.org.

For Detailed information on the 2007 Deer Hunt Raffle, contact Don Roberts (219) 322-1545 or John Jelinek (219) 465-7039

 

 

2008 Dove Hunting
Dove Hunting Provided at The
Don and Mary Roberts Wildlife Area

 Dove Hunting at the The Don & Mary Roberts Wildlife Area will also be provided for members during the 2008 Indiana Dove Season. Raffle tickets will be sold again this year and if you would like to participate in a dove hunt at The Don and Mary Roberts Wildlife Area, please call Don Roberts (219) 322-1545 or John Jelinek (219) 465-7039 for more information. Or Click Here to contact us. You may also request information about this event by sending e-mail to info@nwiwusa.org.

 

 

 Youth Hunts


Jerry Allen Marsh
Boone Grove, IN

Youth Hunt Information

The Northwest Indiana Chapter is proud to announce our "Expand Our Youth" program. We strongly encourage the youth in our area to get involved with our organization and our conservation activities. To encourage their involvement, we are offering a special youth waterfowl hunt at the Jerry Allen Waterfowl Management Unit. "This special hunt is available only to the Youth Members of the Northwest Indiana Chapter". All of our Youth Members will be placed in a special drawing for this hunt and the drawing will take place at our Fall Fun Shoot on August 10, 2008 at the Oakwood Gun Club, located in Wheatfield, Indiana. If you would like more information, please click here and request information about the Northwest Indiana Chapter's Youth Program. Or, contact Don E. Roberts at (219) 322-1545 or John Jelinek at (219) 465-7039 for more information.

Click Here to read an article written by the 2001 Youth Hunter  Steve McWhorter. This file requires Adobe Acrobat Reader

If you would like more information about Indiana's Youth Waterfowl Weekends, Click Here to visit the Indiana D.N.R. Website.

 

Interested in becoming a member of the Northwest Indiana Chapter of Waterfowl USA? Click Here to join today.

Where to
Hunt and Fish in Indiana

Need somewhere to go hunting or fishing?
Click Here to view Indiana's Public Hunting Areas by county

 

 

 

 


 

  

 

 Statement Of Purpose

Waterfowl U.S.A. is a national, non-profit, waterfowl conservation organization dedicated to using funds in the areas in which they are raised for local and state waterfowl habitat projects.

 

Youth Education Programs

  The Northwest Indiana Chapter of Waterfowl U.S.A. realizes that the youth of today will be our leaders of tomorrow. With this in mind, we are working diligently to educate our youth in sound conservation practices. Today's youth needs to be taught and understand that while our waterfowl resource is a renewable resource, our wetlands are a resource that must be protected.

Click Here to browse the website for the  National Chapter of Waterfowl USA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Wood Duck, (Aix sponsa) is a medium-sized perching duck. A typical adult is about 19 inches in length with an average wingspan of 29 inches. This is about three-quarters of the length of an adult Mallard. It shares its genus with the Asian Mandarin Duck.

The adult male has distinctive multi-colored iridescent plumage and red eyes. The female, less colorful, has a white eye-ring and a whitish throat. Both adults have crested heads. When swimming, wood ducks bob their head back and forth in a jerking motion, which makes them easy to spot.
 

 

Mallard Nest

The above picture shows a mallard nest that was constructed by Chapter Members. Each year the nests are stuffed with straw to prepare the nest for the hen mallard to lay her eggs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About Trap Shooting

Trap shooting is one of the three major forms of competitive clay pigeon shooting (shotgun shooting at clay target). The others are Skeet shooting and sporting clays). There are many versions including Olympic Trap, Double Trap (which is also an Olympic event), Down-The-Line, and Nordic Trap. American Trap is most popular in the United States and Canada, primarily as sanctioned by the Amateur Trapshooting Association.

The sport is in some ways a replacement for a game where the targets were live pigeons. Indeed, one of the names for the clay targets used in shooting games is clay pigeons. The layout of modern trap shooting is different from skeet shooting in that there is only one house that releases targets and the shooters only move through 5 different positions.

Trap shooting has been a sport since at least 1793 when it used real birds, usually the then-extremely abundant Passenger Pigeon. Fake birds were introduced around the time of the American Civil War as the Passenger Pigeon was nearing extinction and sufficient numbers were not reliably available. Clay targets were introduced in the 1880's.
 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
 

 

 

 

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