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Barriehie said:
We used to have a gator, named Charles, that came around the duck hunting camp in the swamps out of Lake Charles. To get the feathers off we'd rub the ducks in boiling water and wax and then put them on a stringer in the swamp. When the wax hardened you could crack it off and it'd pull the feathers out. Well, Charles would come along and eat a few of the ducks off the stringer! We'd throw him a few when we pulled the pirogues in. He'd learned the boat sounds meant ducks in the water.
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My last remaining aunt (by marriage to my mom's youngest brother) has a sister who lives in Lake Charles.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
My last remaining aunt (by marriage to my mom's youngest brother) has a sister who lives in Lake Charles.
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We only went there for duck hunting and I hated it. Wild ones are not like the store bought. Small and busting teeth on shot... Up at 3 AM, freezing rain, snow, hail, whatever. Hell the dogs wouldn't even get in the water and they were retrievers! Place is loaded with gators and venemous snakes, mud so deep if you stopped moving you're stuck. I don't mind hunting but deer are a bigger pay off...
 
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Barriehie said:
We only went there for duck hunting and I hated it. Wild ones are not like the store bought. Small and busting teeth on shot... Up at 3 AM, freezing rain, snow, hail, whatever. Hell the dogs wouldn't even get in the water and they were retrievers! Place is loaded with gators and poisonous snakes, mud so deep if you stopped moving you're stuck. I don't mind hunting but deer are a bigger pay off...
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Lake Charles stinks worse than Port Arthur, Texas. And it's just as ugly. I'm surprised the ducks had any feathers.
 
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