B.M. Barrelcooker
12 pointer
Details on banding?
Here We Go Again (22-23)
- Thread starter Bowfinger
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Capttrae
12 pointer
- Apr 2, 2012
- 4,735
Banded 7-13-22 in Freemont OH, hatched 2021 or earlier
Tman6493
8 pointer
Shellback
6 pointer
That is an awesome name for a dog!
WMAallDAY
6 pointer
Would y’all shoot the roost or hunt the field you spotted birds in at 5pm?
littletom
8 pointer
field
DH13
12 pointer
I have never shot a roost pond or field in my years of hunting. So id say NO I wouldnt.
Bowfinger
10 pointer
This close to the end of season…..ROOST!
B.M. Barrelcooker
12 pointer
Play the field.
Still a crap shoot though.
Still a crap shoot though.
HuntressOfLight
12 pointer
^...<DING DING DING>
Winning answer
I left two already thinking about nesting last night 🌙
And discovered at least seven to eight this morning...
WMAallDAY
6 pointer
I decided on the field mainly because my knees and feet had only marginally recovered from the previous days death march through ice early, button bush in the afternoon, and soggy waders from trying to recover a bufflehead in a creek. Glad my laziness paid off for once. Just after shooting light Saturday morning, a cloud of almost 2 dozen birds came flying right to me out of a nearby slough. Maybe 10 big birds, the rest smaller. They circled me, swung out 100 yards downwind of me, banked back. (Heck yeah, it’s gonna happen.) Don’t Move. Don’t move. Here they come. Half the group is locked. Then they all bank and crashed down about 150 yards from where I was set up on Fridays “X”. WTF?!?! Another pair drops in over there. Single dives in with the party over there.
Not ready to accept defeat and still being early, I made the call the grab my 3 decoys and move to bump those birds and set up on their spot, hoping they might fragment and return or have another group would come through before the sun comes up. Imagine that! That didn’t work either. I pulled anchor after an hour, and left.
Sums up my late season. I’m only going to sky blast next year.
Not ready to accept defeat and still being early, I made the call the grab my 3 decoys and move to bump those birds and set up on their spot, hoping they might fragment and return or have another group would come through before the sun comes up. Imagine that! That didn’t work either. I pulled anchor after an hour, and left.
Sums up my late season. I’m only going to sky blast next year.
HuntressOfLight
12 pointer
Well, if it makes you feel any better, illiterate axe man scared off eleven not long ago, via taking his loud truck off road and clear down to the other end of the pond, getting himself stuck upon the hill in the process and almost sliding off into the pond, like the moron he happens to be. I heard it all clear over here at my cottage, even knew beforehand that it would occur, as I heard him driving over there. I counted them, as they flew over my head and then became angry enough to drive over there, myself, chasing him and his little fishing pole off, in turn. He could have easily walked over there with it. He just drove that hill for the very last time.
Capttrae
12 pointer
- Apr 2, 2012
- 4,735
Ended my duck season this morning, decided to hunt the cow pond again instead of taking the boat and going to the lake and fighting the crowd basically because I could duck hunt then go jump in my tree stand and wait on a deer. Few woodies and mergs dropped in about daylight, watched them swim around until one got close enough water swatted a drake woodie of course all the other birds left. Let Coal get in one last retrieve for the season. Got in my tree by 7:15 about 7:45 a young what should’ve been 6 stepped out and he just looked too delicious to let pass so the next step he took was straight down. After a few pics got to skinnin. By 10:00 everything skinned iced even made it to church on time.
DH13
12 pointer
GOOD JOB Capt. Real good way to end the season.
Feedman
Cyber-Hunter
Great day, Capt.
