Opening morning in Shangri-la

[field marshal]

Quite a few birds met their maker again on this opening morning!!!
Probably be knackered later on from processing????----Cheers----Field Marshal.

[lorneparker1]

Thata boy sir! Cant wait for the pics! or did you bring longshots camera?

[Weatherby Fan]

Good work Field Marshal......did that grandson get out with you ?

[field marshal]

Yup, Chessie guy will do a story later with pics, and Jamesy was on fire this morning getting his first Snow goose
and generally making his Poppa look old and slow??---Cheers---Field Marshal.

[Marc]

Sounds like a great opening day! Can't wait to see the story and pictures.

[Fella]

Glad you had success!

[Weatherby Fan]

Yup, Chessie guy will do a story later with pics, and Jamesy was on fire this morning getting his first Snow goose
and generally making his Poppa look old and slow??---Cheers---Field Marshal.

Good on you Tony for spending time afield with your grandson........he's a lucky young lad.
Looking forward to the story and pictures.
WF

[303Brit]

C'mon Chessie, solid work Tony

303

[Chessieguy]

Had a great morning sharing a blind with Field Marshal, kyleklasen,and James...
Kyle set the bar quite high with a triple on ducks just after first light and then James connected with his first snow goose shortly after, things were a little slow for a little bit but when the birds came there were some good numbers, we also had a fair number of pairs drop in. Our shooting was not spectacular, but we manager 30 large Canada's, 2 Cacklers, 1 Snow and 6 mallards, the day ended with a respectable 8 bird flock of which only 1 bird exited, oddly enough it was the lead bird and each of us expected the others were going to target it,it's lucky day I guess.
The field was a little soft and we managed to get Kyle's truck "lightly stuck" but with a little ingenuity an we managed to get it out and on our way.
All in all a fantastic opening, many of the geese were impressively large and it made for lots of work once we returned home.

For some reason I can not get the picture to re-size corretly so I have here is the link...hopefully the size and quality is better...
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/d...psc79ca059.jpg

[f350ps]

Wow, way to go guys and congrats to the young fella on his first Snow, sounds like he's turning into a real shooting machine! K