Northern zone NY opener - Doc reaches out
Craig (Doc) Larter and I started the 2021 season up in the northern zone this past weekend. We hunted a marsh about 1 mile north of Oneida lake - wood ducks only - (although we did see a group of mallards flying high)
Anyway we shot our birds.
The highlight of the morning was Doc reaching out to 50+ yards on a pair of drakes and giving them the tumbleweed treatment with one shot!!
What a site to witness! He watched the gap close and timed it perfect!
Nelly of course made the retrieves at 60+ and we were all smiles!
Just when I thought I had seen it all in a duck blind.
Big Fun! Can't wait till Saturday and we try them again!
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“I never wrote a poem in my life. But if I ever do, it will be about ducks.”
– Gordon MacQuarrie, The Last Stories of the Old Duck Hunters, 1985
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