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BlacktailStalker
09-16-2006, 11:01 AM
Up at 5 and out to the field with a buddy and his choc lab Grizzly. Found a nice point of grass edging the cut stuff with a huge backdrop of standing corn and cut corn about 1/2 a km behind that where they have been feeding in ridiculous numbers. Built a beauty blind, got the decoys all set up prime and the waiting game began. About an hour after light had a few dozen go up the river, in view but far out of range. This happened so many more times, all heading out to Black Creek and Dove creek area, must have found some freshly mowed corn fields... Anyways finally a huge flock came over Comox hill a good km away and we called them in unbelieveably, I thought for sure they were headeed to the estuary to digest. Anyways they liked our spread and circled wide and behind us to land about 60 yards away! We could hammered em behind us but I was thinking they'd do the half loop and come in down wind of our 'coys. They settled in and tripled our number of decoys for us lol. 10 mins later a couple stragglers came off the estuary and right into us, 2 shots, s birds. Git em Grizz!! Well he was a bit surprised when he realized how big they were, he didnt know what to do with them. He sure wanted to get em in though, (he's only 6 months old) in time he'll get it. Anyways aside form a couple high flyers that was it. Whoever was behind us in the next field shooting at flocks that were far to high and were veering towards our decoys need to get a life. They definitely caused a few flocks to pass up our spread making htem flare in all directions... Video taped the whole thing. I might head out again tonight with the camera. Gotta get em before they wisen up to all the shots, then they ALL go up the river. Most were coming back from feeding this morning so this afternoon/evening should be a shooting fest when the tide pushes them off the sand bars.

BlacktailStalker
09-16-2006, 07:22 PM
Back out again tonight, and after the cops came to give us a hard time because the property we hunt is so close to city limits but is NOT in the limits, we hammered 6 more. Grizz brought his first one in with a lot of encouragement, pretty cool to see the lil guy comin along. Every year as long as I can remember the cops are always out opening day, and always new officers that dont realize how it works here, its pretty annoying as we lost two opportunities at flocks that were coming in to our decoys and flared because of us standing in the field talking to them. Oh well, not bad for opening day.

BlacktailStalker
09-16-2006, 07:58 PM
Grizzly with his evening prizeshttp://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f314/BlacktailStalker/Gooseopener2006004.jpg (http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f314/BlacktailStalker/?start=#imgAnch2)

Our blind
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f314/BlacktailStalker/Gooseopener2006002.jpg (http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f314/BlacktailStalker/?start=#imgAnch1)