Sorry to steal the thread-
A game warden friend of mine talked me into a 6x18 Bushnell with BDC turrets on my 22-250 Remington 788; We shot ducks on ponds at 500-600 yds. with no problem; even at 18x, sometimes the water evaperation woul give me problems in the afternoon
Hey brother, you should really watch what you post on the internet, Game Warden buddy or not! That's a FEDERAL Migratory Bird...straight off the AGFC website:
Legal Hunting Equipment
Legal Weapons
Waterfowl may be taken only with shotguns 10-gauge and smaller that are rendered incapable of holding more than three shells, archery equipment and muzzleloading shotguns.
Legal Shot
While waterfowl hunting, the only type of shot that may be in the hunter's possession are: steel, tungsten-iron (Hevi-Steel), tungsten-polymer, tungsten-matrix, tungsten-iron-nickel-tin (TINT), tungsten-nickel-iron (Hevi-Shot), tungsten-bronze-iron (TBI), tungsten-tin-bismuth (TTB) or bismuth-tin or such shot approved as nontoxic by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Hunters may use only nontoxic shot size T (.2-inch diameter) and smaller when hunting waterfowl and coots. Other migratory birds (doves, rails, woodcock, snipe, moorhens and gallinules) may be taken with size T and smaller nontoxic shot or size BB (.18-inch diameter) and smaller lead shot.
I think what you meant to say is you were shooting your own domestic ducks.
And yes I know most COPs /Wardens are hypocrites, so we'll leave it at that.