An NH duck hunt in NH
 

The tide and temps were right for a morning hunt on the salt water today. My NH 10 bore had not been out on a duck hunt for quite awhile and I thought it was about time it got a turn. It's been a warm fall so far and ducks are rather sparse, geese are a little more plentiful. Not much was flying but around 7:30 I heard a honk and I got a pass shot at some geese, no time to change shells, 35 to 40 yards up and 1 1/4 ounce of bismuth #4 killed one dead fold in the air. I got a dusky duck as well that got a little too close later on. Home now and the work begins.

Not a bad day out

Thanks for the pics

Good hunt Pete. Bud and I are finding more ducks this year compared to the last two. Have had two pretty good hunts on the Great Bay side of Adams Point.

It's a little better than the last two years but far from what it used to be, or should be. Very few ducks moving again today. I was out for 3 1/2 hours and I saw maybe a total of 15 for the day.

In point system days that was a duck and a goose limit in Southern Illinois. Blacks and mallard hens were 100 point birds, and we had a one goose limit in the early 80's.

I have missed your post's on duck hunts this year. This coming cold front may improve things. Has been very slow here as have the last two years.

it was a good hunt pete...them old 10 ga s are the gun of my choice...charlie

Years ago in MI the rules were so complicated you needed an accountant, a lawyer, and an ornithologist to stay out of trouble.

A friend of mine donated a duck shoot to a private club in St. Helen's Mich which was auctioned off at a DU dinner. The folks who bought it were accustomed to the liberal (6 birds, any species) of Canada. They went to the shoot, and shot the first two birds which came over - 2 hen Mallards. They were done for the day, and were mad as hell about it, given the money they had spent.

Wish I had the camera just before dusk tonight. At least a couple hundred ducks and geese dropped into a half-acre pool here on the Shawsheen. Sure was a pretty sight.
WHF used to hunt ducks here along the Shawsheen and makes reference to it in NEGS.






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Hi Pete, how did that Baker 10 ga you picked up at Hausmann's work out, seemed like a really nice gun.