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Unread 12-31-2016, 07:44 PM   #1
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A bunch of my friends and family have a tradition of having a hunt on a local preserve on New Years Eve. We have been doing this for many years and it is a great time to get together and celebrate. This is a picture of my good friend Larry and my son Doug, we had 9 in our group. OK so it is pen raised birds but still a wonderful time and the labs don't care. My son's 6 month old lab Roxie made her first flush and retieve. How do you celebrate the New Year in the great outdoors???
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Unread 12-31-2016, 07:50 PM   #2
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nice day out guys

I'll bet Lucy did not complain once about them being pen raised
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A lot of us go to Major Waldron's in Barrington, NH to ogle other people's fine Parkers and burn some serious powder.

We do have a bunch o' fun!!






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I walked some ditches today for ducks. After three failed attempts, I was able to get two mallards. Tomorrow is the last day, so back out to chase the ducks.
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We usually eat Oysters at a friend's place a little down the coast from us
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At the stroke of 12:00 my grandfather would shoot his shotgun off the back porch.
And if the neighbor did beat him to it, he would yell "Damn it Roy, you jumped the gun again"!

Happy New Year
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As Dean said, A new years day shoot here in barrington ,but before that it was a duck hunt if we could get out,
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This afternoon I will load up the dog and head to L.A. ( lower Alabama ) Pine Apple it has A stop sign. Will visit friends and deer hunt 3 or 4 days. Will give them a peak before turkey season at the GH 10 that found me in a gun shop while bird hunting in Montana this past Oct. Would love to kill ( I do not harvest ) wild turkey 100 using a wing bone call that I made and a Parker.
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This is the last day of our late season antlerless deer season. I will be in the blind this pm with a fine custom rifle probably in 257R. Not just any doe will do as we have instituted a Trophy Doe theme on the property. I'm looking for that long nosed gray faced old biddy with the sway back. There out there and an old doe is way smarter than a young buck. The problem lies in that the bucks are shedding their antlers so you have to be careful at what your shooting at so you don't accidently kill an antlerless buck. I found a shed while walking to the blind last week.
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Years ago my skeet shooting two man team partner and I would go Grouse hunting in the Rapidan Wildlife Management Area this borders the Shennendoah National Park so for Virginia the grouse population is pretty decent but rather VERTICAL !

Now any more I just go out and sit in a treestand and watch the sun come up hoping a deer will walk by .

Biggest difference between now and then is the partying . When we'd go after grouse I was usually hung over and lacking sleep . Now not so much LOL's !

Was out this morning about half an hour before legal shooting time and stayed up the tree until noon . No deer but a very pleasant morning mid 30's and virtually no wind !
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