Last Day Eiders 2017

[George M. Purtill]

Charlie Purple had a great day retrieving 11 of our 16 Eiders on our last day of the season this morning.
Cape Cod- Pleasant Bay side of Nauset Beach National Seashore.

[George M. Purtill]

I shot two doubles today.
First double was with my 10 gauge Parker Grade 1 32 inch Twist Steel barrel hammer gun using RST #2 Bismuth loads.
That's the gun in my hands.
Second double was with my Repro SSS with a single shot from the IC right barrel. #2 Fasteel 3 inch loads. Charlie retrieved the hen first and then went back for the drake that was trying to dive away.

[jerrybucci]

Good stuff...eiders .. Always been a dream hunt for me

[George M. Purtill]

It was a dream last day. They just kept coming. And Charlie was busy.

[jerrybucci]

Wonderful..Good stuff

[Daryl Corona]

Nice shooting buddy. I spied the ever present cigar which I'm sure was'nt there shooting the doubles. Who are the other two gents in the pic?

[Dean Romig]

Is that a weight on that guy's auto or is it the magazine?





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[George M. Purtill]

[QUOTE=Dean Romig;210557]Is that a weight on that guy's auto or is it the magazine?

Dean I have no idea. I offered my sss to each of them when their guns jammed. They were too shy to take the offer.

[Dean Romig]

I offered my sss to each of them when their guns jammed. They were too shy to take the offer.

Or didn't want to admit the fact that you had a far superior gun.





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[George M. Purtill]

I honestly believe they were unsure of what to do with a double.

[Kevin McCormack]

George, I had very mixed emotions and struggled through the narrative(s) in your post and the accompanying pictures. What would the PETA people who recently help close down the Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey circus think about you and your cronies slaughtering those defenseless Eiders on the last day of the season, or your sending that cuddly 'Marley' dog out in the frigid surf without even a neoprene vest or a Filson retriever body stocking on?!!!

On the other hand, I and others of the frigid cloth of diehard waterfowl gunners must surely anoint you and your buddies as :"HardCore"! Like you, I mixed Kent TM and Black Cloud steel on my last duck hunt, and had no trouble at all figuring what to do with a SxS. So far as the cigar getting in the way, remind me to give you an Arturo Fuentes Sun Grown Double Chateau when you come to the MACA show at Timonium in March. And if you bring that great barrel-chested Yellow Dog, I'll go out to the truck to hug him as well. Well done!!

[Dean Romig]

Or you sending that cuddly 'Marley' dog out in the frigid surf without even a neoprene vest or a Filson retriever body stocking on?!!!


Kevin - You should see the video of "that cuddly 'Marley' dog" making the retrieve of champions through the churning surf, then proudly delivering a fat drake Eider, pure white breast speckled in crimson, to hand. What a Dog!!






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[Victor Wasylyna]

Kevin - You should see the video of "that cuddly 'Marley' dog" making the retrieve of champions through the churning surf, then proudly delivering a fat drake Eider, pure white breast speckled in crimson, to hand. What a Dog!!






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We all should see the video. Post it!

[Destry L. Hoffard]

Excellent

[Dean Romig]

I just received my new issue of Massachusetts Wildlife published by the MA Div. of Fish & Wildlife. In this issue is a lengthy article on the Eider Virus which is killing numbers of Eider in the North Cape area, specifically the Jeremy Point area of Wellfleet, MA. I haven't read the article yet but I will this morning then I'll mail it to Brother Purtill.





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[George M. Purtill]

We all should see the video. Post it!

I wish that I was savvy enough to do that!!!

[Mike Franzen]

Great hunt fellas! Good shooting too.

[Larry Stauch]

Outstanding George!