FROZEN - Last call

[MARK KIRCHER]

I got the call. My good friend DEMPS. "We have to go - we have to give it a try. we can break through ice to the channel. There are going to be birds". it was and easy sale - No dogs. We have to time our shots right.

We broke ice for 1/2 hour got to the small open water. Set up and started calling. We had quite a hunt. I believe it will be our last chance for a long time in the marsh.

[Angel Cruz]

Man, I got cold just looking at the pictures. Very nice Mark!! Thanks!!

[Rick Losey]

it has been chilly here Angel. But nothing like it will get later - only 6 inches of snow and never got below the upper teens in the temp :rotf:

Mark, somewhere I have a vhs of a last of the season hunt on Tonawanda several years ago, the tape is labeled THE ICE HUNT

we broke ice in the channel, got set up, and were swarmed by mallards, the three of us had a but one short of the then 3 apiece limit in minutes. It was so cold that the guy who needed a bird took the next hen over just to get out and get warm.

those are the hunts you remember for years.

thanks for the post

[charlie cleveland]

when your young you can get out and tough the ice and cold but when youth has passed you by then you like to set around and talk about them hunts you use to do...thanks for the memorys this morning i m setting by a nice warm heater at the moment im giving the birds and animals a day off maybe longer if it dont warm up...charlie

[Angel Cruz]

Well, somebody left the back door open and it was in the 40s this morning.
Rick, close the door!!!

[charlie cleveland]

was 22 here in ole miss yore right angel somebody s gota close that door up north you reckon richard flanders a cleaning the outhouse out... charlie

[Destry L. Hoffard]

You boys certainly had better luck than I did. Hunted with the Horn Brothers (my friend Tom Horn's sons) at their family camp this morning. It was 17 degrees when we took to the field and it never got above 30. Nothing moved till about 9am and then what we saw was sky high. The boys that hunted the impoundment killed one greenwing teal. Tom's oldest boy and I hunted the hill, we never fired a shot. Didn't matter though, we had a fine visit and I enjoyed myself a lot.


Destry

[David Dwyer]

I went out with my 40 yo son this morning: 26 degrees, lots of ducks in the rice field, good shooting and a limit after 2 hours. We saw grays, mallards, teal,ringnecks and shovelers. A great time right up until sinking the pirogue in the 10 foot deep ditch!! All in All still a good morning with my youngest son. We will be back out Sat.
David

[Steve Cambria]

Hey Mark....... where oh where was the "Duke of Damascus??" Was Larter poling the boat....LOL???:rotf:

[Rich Anderson]

17 degrees in the deer blind this am. Took a nice custom 257R with me and enjoyed the rich walnut and case colors. No deer moved but the light snow and a dead calm morning was enjoyable.

[charlie cleveland]

what a good day you boys have had..i m gona go in the morning gona squirl hunt with the dog first then mix in a little deer hunt that evening..gona take the 20 vh in the morning...charlie

[Destry L. Hoffard]

I'm guessing that sinking a pea hull boat in 26 degree weather was a little bit on the bracing side. I thought I was cold standing in a metal pit blind......

DLH

[MARK KIRCHER]

Steve - He was home nursing an injured back. If he was not on the DL we would have had him in the boat with us. 10 bore in one hand and the double reed daisy cutter in the other. With the season cut short, I did not get the opportunity to hunt with him this year. I wish I had.

Here are a few more pictures from my season

First is DEMPS fetching up our birds on frozen Wednesday.
Second Is Doug and his dog Hanna after he doubled on greenheads -
And third another of DEMPS with a mallard sneaking up behind him.:)

[charlie cleveland]

really good pictures..i like the snow falling seenbut the ducksneaking up is truly a good one. charlie

[Frank Srebro]

Mark, a great story and thanks for sharing with the pics. Please say hello to Demps for me. That sure sounds like him.... "we have to go, they'll be there". Frank

[Steve Cambria]

Geeeze Mark.....Go-Devils, fieldstone fireplaces, green-headed wait staff, you W. NY boys bring new meaning to "roughing it!!":bowdown: I'm sure those big, fat red-legs are breathing a sigh of relief with "C-Note" on the DL......LOL!! Great pics and happy holidays to you and the rest of The Dirty Dozen.-----S

[MARK KIRCHER]

Frank & Steve - will do - missed you all at the shows this year. hopefully back to Hussman's next summer. see you then!