Crazy_Farmer
11-26-2011, 12:17 PM
As much as corn fields and mallards go hand in hand, there's something to be said for a flooded timber hunt.
After enough time in a field shooting mallard after mallard, greenhead after greenhead, come december its time to move onto the water. The river, sloughs, ponds and sheetwater. We cut our teeth on duck ponds growing up and there's just a better sense of substance to a duck hunt over water. Dont get me wrong, field shootings great, but give me a duck over water or over land I'll take the water. They are "water"fowl now arent they?
All the mallards had moved from our fields to another no shoot zone but Dad saw just a couple mallards in our flooded timber spot. And with a forecast of 50mm+ today we figured we didnt want to be a laydown getting soaked.
The thing with this spot, is once a duck comes down and commits, they are roughly 10 feet from the blind as they like to cut close to a tree near the blind before they decoy. This gives for some excellent shooting........and excellent misses hahahahah. And you also know if a duck comes through the treeline it is a certain yardage to the canopy and you can take em then too. I want to get a 20" barrel for my A5 becuase they're in so tight.
And it was nice to see multiple flocks of wigeon flying around, buzzing into the decoys. Even got a gadwall to cut off a flock of wigeon and come in. I've seen enough mallards hit the dirt the month of november its time to see the "other" ducks start to fall.
The front of the famous "Wood(he) Miss" blind.
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f52/Crazy_Farmer/2-16.jpg
Hank has his own corner of the blind with ramp.
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f52/Crazy_Farmer/1-18.jpg
This duck salami is great, been having it in sandwiches everyday for work. Fry it up on the pan too. The honey garlic pepperoni is pretty good too.
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f52/Crazy_Farmer/P1050110.jpg
After enough time in a field shooting mallard after mallard, greenhead after greenhead, come december its time to move onto the water. The river, sloughs, ponds and sheetwater. We cut our teeth on duck ponds growing up and there's just a better sense of substance to a duck hunt over water. Dont get me wrong, field shootings great, but give me a duck over water or over land I'll take the water. They are "water"fowl now arent they?
All the mallards had moved from our fields to another no shoot zone but Dad saw just a couple mallards in our flooded timber spot. And with a forecast of 50mm+ today we figured we didnt want to be a laydown getting soaked.
The thing with this spot, is once a duck comes down and commits, they are roughly 10 feet from the blind as they like to cut close to a tree near the blind before they decoy. This gives for some excellent shooting........and excellent misses hahahahah. And you also know if a duck comes through the treeline it is a certain yardage to the canopy and you can take em then too. I want to get a 20" barrel for my A5 becuase they're in so tight.
And it was nice to see multiple flocks of wigeon flying around, buzzing into the decoys. Even got a gadwall to cut off a flock of wigeon and come in. I've seen enough mallards hit the dirt the month of november its time to see the "other" ducks start to fall.
The front of the famous "Wood(he) Miss" blind.
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f52/Crazy_Farmer/2-16.jpg
Hank has his own corner of the blind with ramp.
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f52/Crazy_Farmer/1-18.jpg
This duck salami is great, been having it in sandwiches everyday for work. Fry it up on the pan too. The honey garlic pepperoni is pretty good too.
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f52/Crazy_Farmer/P1050110.jpg