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Well done DeHo, well done. Went down to the Club this morning to give the new car a run and drop off the newly engraved trophies from last season. You will be amazed at the changes. The old place looks pretty spiffy with its new landscaping and the NRA designed enclosure around the ring takes some getting used to but should eliminate the "problem" of errant mariners
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10-09-2011, 02:24 PM | #4 | ||||||
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Had another surprisingly productive morning on the Mud Hole, guess it knows we're leaving so it's being good to us one last time.
Killed our 6 legal wood ducks (all drakes) in pretty short order and stuck around to see if we couldn't pick up some of the teal we didn't get yesterday. We never saw the first one but they were replaced by the mallards that are normally on that slough for the opener which had been oddly absent yesterday. We managed five of those through the course of the morning to put us a little closer to a limit. We'd thrown out 6 goose floaters just in case, though we really didn't think any of the big birds would decoy into the narrow neck we were hunting. This was proven right away when a nice bunch of 15 worked us hard but then sat down out on the open water. Later a single surprised us by showing strong interest, I did some hard calling and talked him into making a mistake. Told Jim to take the shot, as he'd only killed one goose the day before. Up comes his Citori and down goes the goose with a beautiful one shot kill. A whoop and hollar when he waded out to pick it up let me know it was banded! I told him he should give it to me as I'd called the bird in but he seemed to want to hang on to it oddly enough. Managed pull the same trick with another single goose about an hour later but no jewelry on that one I'm sad to say. We gave it up at 10am when it hit about 80 degrees and the birds really stopped flying. As good a 2nd day as I've ever had on the place, makes me more sorry we're losing it. Destry
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fine story and a mighty good hunt it must have been...im sooy that your loosing those places to hunt but i think the hunters world starting s shrinking about 40 years ago..if you do not own land or belong to a hunting club the old hunters way of hunting is about gone..there is some public land for hunting though...sorry it disturbs me about loosing hunting ground...whens the next big hunt...tommorrow i hope.... charlie
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10-21-2011, 12:42 PM | #6 | ||||||
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And the Mud Hole continues to produce.....
Jim and I hunted an afternoon this past week and only killed one mallard. But, there was evidence that quite a few birds were still using the place, so we figured to give it another try this morning. I managed my limit of four mallards and two wood ducks plus a single goose. We had good working birds and the other two in the party should have had a limit down as well but the barrels on their guns seemed to be crooked. They still picked up a wood duck, four mallards, and a goose between them so not too bad. Though, a heavy fog of powder smoke laid close to the water when their shooting was over due to all the expended cartridges. Shooting the big #3 frame DHE as I have been all season. That gun seems to know where to shoot even if it's current owner is sometimes in question. Destry P.S. My season has been surprisingly productive thus far, though I've really not done that much serious gunning. I've killed 45 ducks and 4 geese as of this morning. If this continues it could be a record year (on ducks) as far as numbers go. I'm not all about numbers but it's nice to see a good tally on the sheet when things wind up, makes you feel like you've had some success for all your time, effort, and expense.
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10-21-2011, 09:34 PM | #7 | ||||||
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hope your tally grows as season progresses...good hunt in the old mud hole...that old big ten is a wonder gun.... charlie
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10-26-2011, 12:43 PM | #8 | ||||||
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Leaving early in the morning to meet up with Kurt Densmore for a few days shooting on Saginaw Bay. The weather doesn't look too promising but I'm sure we'll have fun none the less. I'm taking plenty of cigars and whiskey in case we require other entertainments.
DLH
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smoke one of them fine cigars for me i had to give them up....hope yall fill your limits...im still looking for that red head duck.... charlie
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10-31-2011, 01:30 PM | #10 | ||||||
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Got back Saturday morning after spending two days gunning on Saginaw Bay with Kurt Densmore. We hunted the open water from his layout rig both days and had good shooting.
First day was a special one. We both killed a duck species we'd never shot before, and both sea ducks oddly enough. Kurt got a hen oldsquaw and I got a hen common scoter. Strange, to say the least, there on that inland water. Though they do kill a surprising amount of sea ducks up that way for some reason. We also both killed a greenwing teal, birds I'd never seen shot out of a layout boat before. Kurt did something I was envious of, something I'd never seen happen before. A pair of ducks tolled to the rig, he fired two shots out of his Parker and had a slick double. When I ran the tender boat over to pick them up it was a bull canvasback and a drake redhead. I've seen a lot of both species shot but never a double on a pair of birds both being drakes, definitely a moment to remember. We finished the day with four redheads, a canvasback, two greenwing teal, a bluebill, an oldsquaw, and a common scoter. Second morning we were joined by Mark Oulette and had another good shoot. Conditions weren't the best, sunny with very little wind. But we still managed to make a day of it none the less. And, to make it even more memorable, I killed a pair of whitewing scoters, another first of a species for me. I had a group of three come right in on me and knocked down two with the first barrel, then knocking down the 3rd with my second shot. I broke my gun to reload and check for cripples. Before I could get a shell out of my pocket the 3rd bird rolled back over and took off flying! I was disappointed to say the least but was still glad to have the pair. We finished the day with six redheads, a broadbill, three bluebill, and the two scoters if memory serves. The redheads were thick on both days but with only a two bird limit to kill you had to make a religion out of positive duck identification so you passed a lot of shots you might have otherwise taken. All in all a great couple of days, I'd not doing any serious layout shooting in years so it was nice to get into the coffin again. My thanks to Kurt for his hospitality, I hope we can do it again. Destry
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