Ian F.
01-18-2008, 09:02 AM
I can honestly say I’ve had the best watefowling season of my life and it isn’t done yet! We still have late geese (Snow’s and Canada’s) as well as one of the highlights of the waterfowling year for me, BRANT! It’ll be nice to finish out the season, on my birthday hunting the last day of brant and the last day of the season….
http://partridgecreek.ca/Partridge%20Creek/Gunnin%20pics_files/mewith5.jpg
Last Saturday was my last chance to get out for ducks this year and keep employeed and married, I’ve gunned somewhere between 35 and 40 days this year and only ran skunk once. I thought I would finish out the season on Pintails, quickly moving up in the favorite bird to hunt category and hope was to get a mountable bird. To not drag this out too long, the first bird that came in was a beauty drake pintail that went down in 1 shot. In fact the next 3 birds only took 4 more shots, it was one of those days, perfectly decoy birds, shooting was on, one step short of Nirvana! The rain was full on and the wind was pounding, it was nasty, but the birds coorperated. Ended the morning with a 3 x 2, 3 drake sprig, 2 drake widgeon. The icing on the cake was that all the birds where mountable quality, the red gods where looking down on me this day. I spent quite a bit of time picking which of the 3 would go to the taxidermist and hopefully my choice is the right one!
http://partridgecreek.ca/Partridge%20Creek/Gunnin%20pics_files/5onlog.jpg
http://partridgecreek.ca/Partridge%20Creek/Gunnin%20pics_files/tails.jpg
The longest is still on the bird in the freezer, these are some of the others.
http://partridgecreek.ca/Partridge%20Creek/Gunnin%20pics_files/mewith5.jpg
Last Saturday was my last chance to get out for ducks this year and keep employeed and married, I’ve gunned somewhere between 35 and 40 days this year and only ran skunk once. I thought I would finish out the season on Pintails, quickly moving up in the favorite bird to hunt category and hope was to get a mountable bird. To not drag this out too long, the first bird that came in was a beauty drake pintail that went down in 1 shot. In fact the next 3 birds only took 4 more shots, it was one of those days, perfectly decoy birds, shooting was on, one step short of Nirvana! The rain was full on and the wind was pounding, it was nasty, but the birds coorperated. Ended the morning with a 3 x 2, 3 drake sprig, 2 drake widgeon. The icing on the cake was that all the birds where mountable quality, the red gods where looking down on me this day. I spent quite a bit of time picking which of the 3 would go to the taxidermist and hopefully my choice is the right one!
http://partridgecreek.ca/Partridge%20Creek/Gunnin%20pics_files/5onlog.jpg
http://partridgecreek.ca/Partridge%20Creek/Gunnin%20pics_files/tails.jpg
The longest is still on the bird in the freezer, these are some of the others.