Drundel
Elite Refuge
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Registered: Feb
2001
Location: Friendswood, TX
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Ok gonna see
how good, or bad my memory is.
Wen. hunted with cajun
and jason in a nice freshwater pond. I still don't like taco
stands unless there are LOTS of tall grass but it was a nice
looking blind. We took some long shots and passing drivers,
saw some mottleds with O2 masks. That one BB we hit did a
frickin' back flip and then kept flying, never seen that
before. We had one group of what looked like BB to me buzz us,
too fast to get a shot, but they came back to my right and
went behind us where we all got a shot. The crescents were so
bright I could see them at 30 yards, very nice!
That
afternoon we scouted for some mottled areas. Found some but
got stuck many times, the winches still work. So Cajun tell us
about that spot near the poachers blind.
 lets just say no bike
could make that.
Thus morning, started out towards the
area from the day before, start bogging down, tell jason to
get off and try to back up, no luck, with him pushing the ATV,
I get it to hard ground and say, thats it. So I tell jason to
walk that way and I'll get the dekes and meet you there, about
10 yards he says, @#$&*$# this. Not a good start, finally
get to some water where it has a nice hard bottom, put out
about 5 black duck dekes and sit in a grass clump. Get his
drake and got out!
The trip down was fun, about 100
yards back when a 18 wheeler blew a tire, never thought it
would be that loud or blow smoke that much. I bet that would
do some damage if you were right next to the tire.
Get
there that thus. night and meet his brother (Jody), kinda
reminds me of Mick Foley from WWE. Anyways, meet the guide and
Jodys wife. Dinner was.... interesting to saw the least. These
people aren't shy at all, glad they were friends otherwise
someone buddy was gonna get dumped in the gutter
somewhere.
Friday morning came a little early, but we
were at the beach ready to go. Never been on an airboat, but
it was pretty cool. Luckily I had brought my ear plugs so
those and the muffs it wasn't loud at all. We get in the blind
with JUST enough water so the dekes aren't on their side.
First bird was a GWT drake I see come in at a 45 and I get him
on the second shot to my right. Poor Abby chased that sucker down 100 or so
yards. My pintail came in alone and thank god for the third
shot, Jason said I hit it on the second shot, but on the third
it fell dead. The next opportunity was the pintails that jason
passed on. And lastly, I am looking to my right and I see
jason swing and look just in time to see a teal
fall.
Ok, went back, cleaned birds, and got the fishing
poles. I think I have an anti-potlicking gene cause I couldn't
catch jack on dead shrimp and the rest of them boys caught
some reds.
Cleaned fish, ate some of cajuns duck dirty
rice and was about ready for a nab when the guide said load
up, time to go.
Afternoon was on the opposite side of
the bay in a blind that did pretty good in the morning. Don't
remember much from this hunt other than my redhead was a far
40 yard shot overhead, but two rounds of 3" #2 into him with a
WW choke just to watch him flutter 100 yards and land. I kept
an eye on him for the next 30 minutes until he put his head
down. Then I load up with Abby and
start the walk. Jason also had a redhead down there so we
picked them both up and got back.
The next morning was
with jason and jody at this blind near an island. We sure
missed a lot of easy shots and jason proved his luck as a hen
killer. He is the only man who could kill a hen bluebill out
of 35 bluebill drakes.
 I got my first
buffalo head, a hen.
That afternoon with again with
Jason and Jody and I got to see jason get three with one shot.
I was messed with the mojo and I hear freeze, so I just keep
my head down and I hear a smack followed by the sound of the
shot, I look up to see two dead birds and one leaking oil. No
more Hevi-Shot for Jason.
His bro and I made two
great over head shots at redhead drakes. About 100 are flying
over and Jody hits the one on the left and I got the one on
the right. After we finish our redhead limit we are see about
4 birds to jodys right that we call as red heads until they
hit the sun right and I see a pintial, about 50 yards I yell
widgeon but its too far. Right at sundown we cripple a sponnie
that hits the water and goes under.
A great time and
had a blast to try some new style of hunting. Never have I
seen that many birds before. Its more than our marsh has
during teal season, a helluva site.
Thx
Jason
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