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12-28-2014, 10:08 PM
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Living the Past.......
I've had a day of days, wouldn't trade it for a sack full of money lemme tell you. Hunted this morning for geese over in Missouri, was heading to Anna to visit Gerald Droge and my phone rang. Was my good friend Mr. Russell giving some news. Gerald and I had planned a real old time duck hunt for this week but there just weren't any ducks anywhere we could hunt that wasn't just covered up with people. Mr. Russell had invited us to his place to do it but he just wasn't holding any birds so we'd kind of given up on the idea. Well, the report was that a good number of divers had shown up on the big pond and that we could hunt the afternoon if we could make it. He was heading out of town but gave us the run of the place.
I broke the speed limit getting the rest of the way to Gerald's house. Thankfully I had my sack of wooden Victor decoys in the truck and my Parker hammer 10 gauge under the seat. We quickly loaded up a boat, Gerald's rig of the same decoys, and we burned up the roads heading for the pond. You can see the results of a couple hours shooting in the photo. Limits of canvasback, redhead, and bluebill, all killed like our Great Grandfathers would have done it.
Metal reed duck calls, Gerald using one of his own manufacture and me using a Tiff Roseberry III a third generation call maker from our local area. Canvas stickup geese are 30's era made by Pete Wessinger of Cairo, IL. Duck decoys are Victor Animal Trap Company out of Pascagoula, Miss. This was a mutual rig, I had ten and Gerald had eight, mixed bluebill / mallard / and canvasback.
Gerald was shooting his lifter 10 gauge Parker with brass shells and black powder hand loads of bismuth. I was shooting my D grade top lever hammer 10 gauge with RST NiceShot. Gerald had my envy with the brass shells and he offered half but only had 20 so I stuck with the RST which I knew would do the job.
We killed a pair of canvasback out of bunch of nine that decoyed right in. Then Gerald had a double on bluebills out of the next bunch which came off his side, I didn't have a shot. We barely got reloaded when a big mixed flock of 30 bluebills and redheads started circling, we let them land right in the spread so we could get a better look then jumped them up and went to work. When the literal smoke cleared, we had seven flopping and got to counting ducks pretty close. Thankfully the Red Gods had smiled and we didn't have too many of either. We needed one bluebill to finish up limits and Gerald dusted off a single that came in feet down.
Guess you don't need 100 Greenhead Gear decoys, Benelli autoloaders, and acrylic duck calls to kill em. But of course, Gerald and I already knew that.
P.S. Thanks to my buddy Jeff Pelayo for aging up that first photo for me. He's a wonder with those things, had it done in about four minutes.
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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12-29-2014, 09:29 AM
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