Opening morning in Shangri-la

[field marshal]

Quite a few birds met their maker again on this opening morning!!!:-D
Probably be knackered later on from processing????:mrgreen:----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??:mrgreen:---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??:mrgreen:---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

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[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/dd1/chessieguy/DSC08624_zpsc79ca059.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

[lorneparker1]

Twice I have heard this ingenuity and kyle in the same sentence today. Not normal. Please elaborate!

Nice shoot boys!

Lorne

[mattchu_19]

Nice shoot boys. Tony no specks around?

[field marshal]

All morning we intensely listened for "Squealers" not a Speck in any of the flocks??:cry: I hope they are not all gone??
You guys seeing any Matt??---Cheers---Field Marshal.

[Island Idiots]

Way to go Tony! Congrats on a great start.

[lorneparker1]

Keith,

Did you take that picture looking backwards through a telescope?

[Chessieguy]

That was Tonys photography work...so as much as I would like to take credit for it I can't!!

Thought it was just me seeing it blurry after pushing a truck out and cleaning a mess of geese.

[Rackem]

That was Tonys photography work...so as much as I would like to take credit for it I can't!!

Thought it was just me seeing it blurry after pushing a truck out and cleaning a mess of geese.

Is there any way to enlarge the photo? So tiny..

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd1/chessieguy/OpeningDay2013_zpsa068d216.jpg

[303Brit]

Nice works lads

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[Tanya]

Well done Tony and crew. Great hunt!

[Chessieguy]

I tried to upload it several ways, and have changed the imbedded pic to a link in hopes that it would help, but no matter what is done its still exceeding the limit...Not sure what is up with it as there is generally not an issue.

[Marc]

Way to go guys! Was there only one snow goose seen? Just curious if it was a loner or part of a flock?

[kyleklassen]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/903133_10202053114147573_1853014405_o.jpg

[kyleklassen]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1402262_10202053068386429_1225706429_o.jpg

[field marshal]

Way to go guys! Was there only one snow goose seen? Just curious if it was a loner or part of a flock?

Only 1 snow was seen by us!! Cheers----Field marshal

[longshot]

Congrats on the snow, seeing more and more every year in cowichan! We saw 4 specks on Saturday but waaaaay up high.

[303Brit]

Those are better pics, again nice work lads

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[kyleklassen]

It was a good morning and yes for the second year in a row k.k. has tripled in the opening volley...last year honkers this year mallards. The snow goose was a single and was also our first goose of the day, so with my ducks and james' snow next shot went to chessie he dumped a low single honker that proceded to fling blood all over one of field marsahlls decoys..it got real hectic for a while the slowed a bit and it was good to have a new(to me) guy in the blind even if he talked funny....some great shots were made along with some epic misses. I damn well better triple again next year or i'm gonna hear about it.

[Duck Buster]

Great job guys looks like you had a great shoot, way to go