A Good Day

[Duck Buster]

Field Marshal and I headed out for a quick hunt today. It turned out to be one of those good days where everything works, set up well befor shooting light, birds working well into the decoys, good work by the dogs, and some nice shooting. Both of us conected on a few doubles, and Feild Marshal even took two with one shot.... pretty nice shooting if I do say so. We ended with 16 nice fat Mallards and proof that #4's can kill ducks !


http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/Dec_6_2012_Limit.jpg

And Adam this pic is for you....

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/First_BC_Band.jpg


This is my first B.C band after I can't even count how many birds.. I will post the band particulars when I get them.

[nano]

Nice shooting!

[BiG Boar]

Nice work! Good to see that number 4's do actually work. I was starting to think that The ducks I shoot were all thin skinned.

Nice band. I'd buy a pretty short call lanyard to put it on so you might fill it up in a lifetime.

[naes]

Nice work looks like I missed a good day. The wife owes me big time :evil:.

[swamper]

Way to go. All my years of hunting ducks have not netted me a band. Congrats.

[lorneparker1]

Love the band!!! Was that 2 with one shot in the air? :D

[Chessieguy]

Was that 2 with one shot in the air?:-D

I wondered the same thing....

Well done gents, you seem a lot cleaner than our last outing :mrgreen:

Seems to be a few bands around this year, might be hope yet!!!

[Duck Buster]

Unlike you guys up Island Lorne all our birds die in the air...... It was a great shot.

[Sako 75]

Look like you guys got mostly Northern mallards, I still getting some local mallards here.....smaller in size and light orange feet. By away, looks like the greenie crap himself when you shot him....congrats. on band.

[Angus]

Looks like a great day. Good stuff on the bling!

[Foxton Gundogs]

Nice shoot guys, Happy Happy Happy dogs, was FM using his 20??

[Discoverer]

Congrats on your first bling! Nice shooting, fellas.

[field marshal]

Nice shoot guys, Happy Happy Happy dogs, was FM using his 20??

Thats all I use for ducks now , Jim! Really happy with the Black Cloud close range.The singles and doubles were pitching in right on top of us
just like it's supposed to be!!:-D----Cheers----Field Marshal.

[lorneparker1]

Unlike you guys up Island Lorne all our birds die in the air...... It was a great shot.

Thats good to hear! Unlike you guys down south, we shoot more then a handful of ducks a year!

Lorne

[field marshal]

The new "Butterball" king of Ontario Is doing lots of "chirping" lately!! Ha Ha!! You better come home to "Gods Country" and maybe someting will land
in your decoys for you to "dry-gulch???:mrgreen:-----Cheers----Field Marshal.

[lorneparker1]

Hahahaha I'm hoping!

Lorne

[yamadirt 426]

Thats all I use for ducks now , Jim! Really happy with the Black Cloud close range.The singles and doubles were pitching in right on top of us
just like it's supposed to be!!:-D----Cheers----Field Marshal.

I had a box of these in my hand yesterday but put them bAck over the Kent's. Now kinda wished I didnt

[Crazy_Farmer]

A drake too tony!!

Congrats guys

[Foxton Gundogs]

Thats all I use for ducks now , Jim! Really happy with the Black Cloud close range.The singles and doubles were pitching in right on top of us
just like it's supposed to be!!:-D----Cheers----Field Marshal.

Have to pick up a couple of boxes and give em a try very happy with the 'Bee so far we'll have to get together for a 20 ga jihad on the mallard population before to long :mrgreen: sure makes the work easy for the dogs.

[Freshtracks]

Congrats on a good shoot lads. Nice to see the #4's working. :razz: Hey DB ... congrats on the band ... get ready ... took over 25 years to get my first ... then in 1 week, had 4. :shock:

[Tanya]

Nice shoot guys! Congrats on the bling drake.

Field Marshall, what kind of 20g are you using? My 12 HATES Blackcloud, jams every single shell. Don't have that with WinX or Fed.

[HuntNHookSports]

#4's for me too. Using remington sportsman steel this year and very happy with it

[Duck Buster]

#4's for me too. Using remington sportsman steel this year and very happy with it


I love those shells as well, I am still using up some winchesters that I got a couple of seasons back at a good price, but as soon as they are gone I will be back to the Sportsmans.

[tomahawk]

Nice setup, are they good eatin birds?

[field marshal]

First of all to answer Tanya! I've got an older Rem.1100 autoloader 20ga. It also likes Win.#4 steel 1oz. loads as well as the new Black Cloud close
range 1oz loads. They have to be 1oz. loads or it won't cycle properly! Also you have to keep the gun squeaky clean for reliable functioning.
As far as table fare goes, the only finer eating birds would be Prairie ducks!---Cheers---Field Marshal.

[Viper]

Good looking birds guys plus a bonus bling drake very cool.

[Duck Buster]

Thats good to hear! Unlike you guys down south, we shoot more then a handful of ducks a year!

Lorne

Hey Lorne, my 4 yr old daughter was wondering if she could head up and throw some bread crumbs for you so you can really get in on those park ducks you guys shoot. She also has a large bag of popcorn to help with your deer hunting. You choose, just let us know and she can help.....

[lorneparker1]

Hahahahaha woooo! The smack talk is heating up! Hahah I love it

[Duck Buster]

Here is the info on the banded bird. I was suprised to see it was banded in Merritt and is only 1 1/2 yrs old. But pretty cool.

Banding Data
Band Number 1797-81624 Banded 08/20/2011
Species MALLARD Sex MALE
Age of Bird HATCHED IN 2011
Location
NEAR MERRITT, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
Bander
ANDRE BREAULT
BC-CWS-WATERFOWL
PACIFIC WILDLIFE RES CENTRE
RR 1 5421 ROBERTSON
DELTA BC V4K 3N2
Encounter Data
Location 6 mi E of DUNCAN, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Encountered 12/06/2012
CANADA

[Crazy_Farmer]

Our only mallard band we have my dad shot a few years back at that same Merritt location.