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Thanks Destry! The bands went a long ways in cheering me up after expending so much ammunition for so few ducks! I seemed to make the hard 50+ yd shots and miss the ones that came right over me at 25yds...go figure... Tom would say of some incomers, "they're way too high" and not shoot.... I'd shoot and down one would come.... or he might shoot twice and miss and I'd swing on a bird way the hell out and down it would go.... maybe it's the F/F chokes....
She was banded Aug 8, 2009 on Minto Lake, not far from where I got her..... and the check's in the mail....! |
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That thumb gets pretty painful after a weekend in camp if I don't drink enough liquids and isn't bad at all here; it gets way worse. After last night's plucking session out in the back woods it's my plucking thumb on the right hand that's really hurtin' today; good thing I have a good in-house pharmacy.... Shooting Hevi shot Classic Doubles, KTM, and Bismuth, mostly all in 4 shot as much as I can, with some #3 an #5 mixed in there. The old bismuth shells are the dirtiest burning shells I have ever seen - terrible!. The bbls look like I've been shooting black powder. The KTM and Classic Doubles hit pretty hard and kill well. Pic shows where the "fat meets the road"... or the Food Saver as it were... I swear I'm going to show some serious respect and have a moment of silence when I roast and stick a fork to ole' Bonnie... what a fighter! I actually feel a little bad about taking her. She obviously had good genes to pass on. I will pick her bones absolutely clean out of respect and in hopes of taking on some of her tenacious spirit We all better hope that ducks like her don't discover some long lost scattergun in a marsh and start toying with it and figure out how it works...
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10-10-2011, 04:48 PM | #6 | ||||||
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what a fine storey about bonnie...she just didnt want to give up did she...still about 6 weeks till us in mississippi get to shoot any of them big ducks...if any any of them get by them big parkers... charlie
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10-10-2011, 11:16 PM | #7 | ||||||
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Cool picture with the ducks strung over the log. I remember catching a few ducks in muskrat traps when ran a trapline in the late fifties and early sixties. Ususlly just had to cut the leg off at the first joint above the foot if the trap broke the bone. One particular black duck I did that with lived for five more years.
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He may have lived for 5 more years but I bet he was pissed.....
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10-11-2011, 08:05 AM | #9 | ||||||
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Richard, crazy glue works great on cracks but make sure the infection is out of it if it is infected may not be. But me and Dad use it all winter.
Dave, Dean, I caught a greenhead on a beaver drownder rig he drounded. |
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10-12-2011, 11:27 PM | #10 | ||||||
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I've done the glue thing in the past Calvin but this thumb wasn't bad enough to bother. You should see the other thumb.... much much worse. Sometimes you can just duct tape the cracks shut if that's all you have.
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