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Glad you boys got some on the second day, I heard the reports the first day and felt big time bad for you guys.

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Don't feel bad...Poncho figured the rest of the gang wasn't worth ****ing on.

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AQ.....That's the most you said to me on the whole trip!!!! And the sad part is we are home already!!! I don't get it.....I tried like hell to talk to you on 2 different ocassions, I felt like I was bothering you or something. Maybe the PA boys were just to obnoxious for you!!

Hey Ramsey...I got the scoop form MSDuckmen on you!!!!!! When are you coming up for black ducks???

Skack.....you know what the real deal was....and by the way...I picked up all the empty hulls where you were laying....how many shells did you go through that day???? I stopped counting at about 75!!!!

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by djbowman2
[B]Skack, here was our take on Saturday...we could have had more but my gun got screwed up as soon as we got there and it would not shoot, and we left the guides gun in the boat by accident .
We were head hunting for good mounts..1 redhead, 2 pintails, and 2 widgeon. [QUOTE]

Does the widgeon have blood on its eye stripe? It looks a little pruple to me.......

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Half-Breed,

I don't talk too much........... I just will not be IGNORED I really had a great time and wish I could have hunted with all of you. What a great bunch of guy's.

To the people who didn't go:

A hand full of us had a less than perfect hunt the first day. And the other 2 groups slaughtered 'em. EVERY single one of them felt truly bad for us, and told us how sorry they were. Each and every one of them is a true SPORTSMAN as far as I am concerned. These are the kind of people you meet here on the refuge. I look fwd to next time.............jpac

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I felt like I was bothering you or something.

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AQ.....That's the most you said to me on the whole trip!!!! And the sad part is we are home already!!! I don't get it.....I tried like hell to talk to you on 2 different ocassions, I felt like I was bothering you or something. Maybe the PA boys were just to obnoxious for you!!

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No, I had a bad case of the flu and didn't want to give it to anyone, plus I was tired and run down. Even so, I'm not a real talkative guy most of the time but my mind is usually running on warp speed.

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Duckwinger...that is just the coloring on his head...that's why he is getting mounted....an absolutely beautiful bird!!!!

AQ...That makes a little more sense now...even so, I still would have liked the idea that we were to obnoxious for you!!

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Glad all you boys had a good time at the Refuge hunt. I enjoyed meeting each and everyone of you boys and only wish I had been able to make the rounds more and maybe got to know you a little better. Two days is not enough time to spend with such a large group.

The best part of the entire trip for me was finally putting some faces with the names and I’m the first to admit that only a few stuck. I see the pictures you guys are posting and can’t remember who they are or how they log on to the refuge. None the less you were a great bunch of people.
We came back from our morning Duck blind sitting to people I felt were truly sorry that we didn’t have an opportunity to take birds. (Well birds we thought worthy of shooting)
I was most upset when I found my friends from the north had been the only group not to kill many geese the first day but was real glad to see that they rebounded well.

Below is a picture of our first morning duck hunt. Our guide informed us that we were hunting public land and that he had not scouted the day before because he was with another group. (We knew we were in for trouble) Look close at the first pictures it is simply amazing at the amount of birds that were moving that morning.



This is a picture of the guide picking up what is left of his spinner…. Hehehe best $40.00 I ever spent.


More Ducks in real numbers……WOW!


So much Action the dog fell out….


Afternoon hunt was another story …
We thought we were going to a preserve to hunt Pheasant/quail/Chuckar like the ad said only to find out that it was not a Preserve but a planting of birds and that it was only Chuckar…OH MY GOD!

Wes and Duckhunt4 at their finest.

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Next Day we had a Goose hunt planned and was the highlight of the weekend.





Thanks for a great time boys. Even with all I felt was wrong it was worth it to meet the Mob.

The Birds are finally moving in here in real numbers and I’m glad to be home hunting the way I know how. I have had mallard limits everyday since I got back home but I’m having trouble getting the third party birds to work our area.

For you PA boys I talked to Ramsey on the Cell Phone yesterday and he said we are on for next season…… Be there..

I’ll check back in the day before Christmas…

Dan

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We thought we were going to a preserve to hunt Pheasant/quail/Chuckar like the ad said only to find out that it was not a Preserve but a planting of birds and that it was only Chuckar…OH MY GOD!

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Hey DJ........this one of friday's "pile" came out ok..Friday's near skunk.....

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Mississippi meets Iceland...

Mississippi meets Pennsylvania.....

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Victor...great pictures!!! I t was great to hunt with you, wish you could have been there on Saturday.

MSDuckmen...it was a pleasure meeting you and I can't wait till next year. You are the first southerner that actually didn't think that this yankee talked to fast!!!! I really am a country boy!!!

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I really enjoyed meeting all of the folks there, an outstanding group of guys. Hope we cross paths again. Thanks again to the PA guys for bringing my shell box.

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Originally posted by djbowman2
Skack.....you know what the real deal was....and by the way...I picked up all the empty hulls where you were laying....how many shells did you go through that day???? I stopped counting at about 75!!!!

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It's called cleaning up PA cripples...

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nice picks like the redhead, would like to get one mounted for new house

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Best quote from the hunt....

On Friday, our party of 7 killed 65 geese and stopped hunting at 9:00.

Mike Ladnier, the owner of Bay Prairie, was laying down on the left side of the spread behind Duck Lorange, Oxbow and myself, and he said if the guys on the right side had shot like us there would have been 100 geese on the ground

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Mike Ladnier, the owner of Bay Prairie, was laying down on the left side of the spread behind Duck Lorange, Oxbow and myself, and he said if the guys on the right side had shot like us there would have been 100 geese on the ground

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Funny thing is he said the same thing when he was on the right side of the spread about the left hand side.

Funny how Mike could tell who shot which goose when he spent most of the time 200 yards from the spread walking his "retriever" out to each downed bird.

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hahaha!!!!

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Thought I'd post a pic of where ole AQ was in the spread .....he is the third guy in completely laying down and covered up. Seems to me he was 15 yards from me with two people in between us...this would put "dead eye" about 5-6 yards from the "right" side of the spread.

Glad you shot so well for a guy with the flu.

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