Great pictures and hunt. I take it a "willy" is like a "Scotch Double", two birds with one shot. I have had a few of those and it is always a surprise and it is something you will always remember, especially the gun, dog and place. I did a triple on dove with a 20 gauge hammered Parker. Dropped a dove with the right barrel and a Scotch Double with the left, Bene, my last little Boykin Spaniel, retrieved and I was in the field where I was introduced to dove hunting. Got a Scotch Double with a 28 gauge Woodland Zephyr in a different field with the Bene. Another story, but I sold the 28 gauge that had been my great uncles to a friend for his daughter. I saw her shoot a pheasant with that little gun 11 years ago on a brisk and cold snowy day when she was 14. I was a proud as her father.

Thanks Harry, yep a willy is the same as a Scotch Double. The two drake mallards landed in the water so it was an easy pick up for my dog. The third bird shot dropped into the cattails and I thought it was a hen mallard which would have been a limit of mallards (3 total and I had 1 in the boat). Lucy came back and it was a Black so I had room for one more mallard. A group came in about 10 minutes later and I picked a Drake and it was over by 8:15 am. You can appreciate my excitement, a new gun and 4 greenhead studs and a Black.

My tail wags for you.

Craig, that's great the duckin is so good in your neck of the woods. Here in New Hampshire we are suffering from very warm temps and not much duck movement. Our inland season is open until the 13th, but its hard to find a duck as all the water on the big lake ( Winnipesaukee) is still completely open as are the back ponds. Hope it cools off soon or we are in for a repeat of last years lousy season.

Steve: Believe me the hunting has been difficult here also due to the warm weather but I just hit it right and a push of new birds came into our area. Most days 1 or 2 ducks and I have been hunting hard. Our second season opens 12/26 and I am hoping our marsh is still unfrozen which is becoming much more common in recent years.

We had gators out in force when I went to the Santee River. Hot weather stinks this time of year.

Craig, our second season opens next Tuesday 12/15. For once ALL our blinds are brushed and ready. Lots of ducks coming into the Chesapeake Bay in small to medium sized flocks every few days, mostly small divers and a few mallards and blacks - no "Northern red legs" yet. Sorting out my longline diver rig day after tomorrow with an in-the-water test to get ready for the 'Big Boys' - Cans and Readheads, which are reported to be filling up the mainstem of the lower Bay near Hoopers Island and the Honga River. Tic-tock..Tic-tock.....

Craig, well for all my complaining about the inland duck season here, my buddy and I took the Duck Boat down to the salt today and had a pretty good day. Two Geese, should have been four, and blew it on some Mallards, but all and all a good day.