The perfect antidote for July ennui is a trip to Argentina. My friend Russ Bickel, PGCA member Don Horneff and his pal Tom Keller (and 3 Parkers-12,16,20, 2 Winchester M21s 12,20 and 2 Kreighoffs both 20s) spent a week in central Buenos Aires province doing 5 days of duck hunting. Plenty of ducks, plenty of food and wine and first class accomodations just a 2 hour ride from the airport. We took 9 different species of ducks, saw many other magnificent species of bird life (the lines of flamingos passing in the setting sunlight were forever memorable) and had a ball. The worst drought in 83 years in the country seems to have broken as the day before our arrival they had 2 1/2" of rain and the dirt roads were a bit soggy but the Toyotas got us to the blinds. A highly recommended therapy to bridge the hunters gap between January and September. We now begin planning for our week on the St.Lawrence in Quebec in late September (and loading some short 10s for the hammer Parkers) and bracing ourselves to hear Destry's stories...all over again... "When I was a goose guide with dem boys down in Southern Illinois, etc., etc."
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07-23-2009, 03:00 PM
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