Marc
12-26-2009, 07:13 PM
Well I had my newly fixed 11-87 oiled up and ready to take it for a test drive this morning.
We set up the decoys and waited for legal time to arrive. First birds in to the decoys after legal light where a pair of Mallards. The gun barked and two ducks hit the ground! Yes! The gun is working like it used too!
We had ducks working the spread pretty much all morning in the fog. I even managed a triple on ducks again today. What a feeling to have that happen after struggling to try and get my groove with my standby shotgun which is now broken :-|.
We limited out on Mallards buy about noon and decided to stick around to see if we could manage to get into some more geese. We then sat there and watched flock after flock after flock of ducks work our decoy spread. We had mallards, widgeon, teal, spoon bills and a single drake pintail visit the spread after we had already reached our limit on mallards. Then what had to be the most frustrating thing of all. Field Mashall hollers out Euro widgeon, at first I though he was pulling my leg, no word of a lie it was a full plummed Euro Widgeon and he come right into the spread so we can have a good look. Not just once but it circled well within range 3 times :-|
The geese where flying around but we had a hard time seeing anything in the thick fog. We did have a couple flocks come in to range and we managed to knock six geese out of them and we had another sail about 400 yards where it was found dead in the road and didn't get picked up until after the picture.
The dog had a blast and we had him busy retrieving ducks and geese for the better part of the morning. we had a couple ducks drop onto some ice on a flooded area of the field and the dog was nervous walking on it as it was creaking and breaking underneath him. He did eventually get the birds but it was kind of funny to watch him out there tip toeing to the birds.It was his first time working on frozen water so it was a leaning day for him out there as well.
Had a great day out there and hopefully everyone had a good one out there.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/boxing_day_hunt.jpg
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/boxing_day_birds.jpg
We set up the decoys and waited for legal time to arrive. First birds in to the decoys after legal light where a pair of Mallards. The gun barked and two ducks hit the ground! Yes! The gun is working like it used too!
We had ducks working the spread pretty much all morning in the fog. I even managed a triple on ducks again today. What a feeling to have that happen after struggling to try and get my groove with my standby shotgun which is now broken :-|.
We limited out on Mallards buy about noon and decided to stick around to see if we could manage to get into some more geese. We then sat there and watched flock after flock after flock of ducks work our decoy spread. We had mallards, widgeon, teal, spoon bills and a single drake pintail visit the spread after we had already reached our limit on mallards. Then what had to be the most frustrating thing of all. Field Mashall hollers out Euro widgeon, at first I though he was pulling my leg, no word of a lie it was a full plummed Euro Widgeon and he come right into the spread so we can have a good look. Not just once but it circled well within range 3 times :-|
The geese where flying around but we had a hard time seeing anything in the thick fog. We did have a couple flocks come in to range and we managed to knock six geese out of them and we had another sail about 400 yards where it was found dead in the road and didn't get picked up until after the picture.
The dog had a blast and we had him busy retrieving ducks and geese for the better part of the morning. we had a couple ducks drop onto some ice on a flooded area of the field and the dog was nervous walking on it as it was creaking and breaking underneath him. He did eventually get the birds but it was kind of funny to watch him out there tip toeing to the birds.It was his first time working on frozen water so it was a leaning day for him out there as well.
Had a great day out there and hopefully everyone had a good one out there.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/boxing_day_hunt.jpg
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/boxing_day_birds.jpg