duck hunt
well its been cold in north mississippi for the last few days down to 4 degrees one morning...anyway got up at 4.00 am saturday morning looked at my thermometer it said 14 degrees so went back in and put on another thick shirt...went out and started the truck up took a secound look at things to make sure i had every thing...even thought to get me some of those hand warmers to go in my gloves boy am i glad i thought of them... met my hunting partner at our hunting place it was now 5.20 am..i grabbed the old lc smith and my shell belt and we took off walking to our hunting site we arrived there at 6.00 still dark about 15 minutes to shooting time...we had hoped for the old slew we was hunting on not to be froze over but it was...finally i loaded up the old smith no 2s in the right barrel and bb s in the left... was not long 4 ducks tryed to light on the ice my buddy got a shot off but i did not..in about 2 minutes my hunting partner shot twice i almost shot on his dead duck..that wood hit the ice and slid almost to me i bet it slid 30 foot..after this a pair of woodys came in at about 15 yards they came in so fast and left out so fast i never got a chance to even get my ungloved hand out of the bibs of my waders..i think those ducks had it in high gear...in about 5 minutes a group of about 10 woodys came over they were high but i shot once just could not help my self... well we stayed about 15 more minutes no ducks seen no shots fired any where in that big bottom..i don t think there was a box of shells fired in that bottom this morning..the water being froze we should have hunted over the old river it was running so it did not freeze up...well we walked back to the truck no ducks seen..met up with some fellow hunters they said they had not fired a shot..anyway we had one woody in the bag it was my friend s first duck...it made his day..any way i got home helped my grandson buy a old s 10 pickup then called my loaffering buddy and we went to a gun show only seen i parker hammer gun with a broke stock but it had been fixed with a brass sheeting and some nails looked ok. price 500 dollars..a good day by all means...did see a super nice hopkins and allens old 10 ga single barrel a rolling blck at that at 1200 to rich for me... i tried to trade a nice 20 ga parker for a real nice winchester 32-20 but the fellow ask me 650 to boot. needless to say i took the little parker back home... charlie
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