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5 guys, half limits. Shot really well, only let one duck get away. That North wind blew our birds somewhere else. Still had a good flurry early, and my gal came with today to film us. So it was still a good hunt overall. Buddy brought his six year old, and he's hell on them ducks with a bb gun!

Thibby with the take


She might not pick 'em but at least she'll hold 'em...


Had a good time and brought Agduckhumper with us as well. So a good time was had by all, even if we only did half as well as yesterday.

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That damn video camera must have jinxed yall, everytime I would bring a camera I would not shoot crap. Man I heard yall's group flat out took some birds out of there this year.

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Teal were gone but there was a bunch of pintail out there today. Landed several mottleds in the decoys too.

Drake224 killed a big ole stumptail on the way out this morning.

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On the cable gate road by roost pond? We saw a mangled one there. Looked like someone shot it about 6 times...

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Yep .. he ran over it with that Big Red. Must have just wounded it and someone else finished it off ????

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Looks like a good time for all! My girl is the say way. She'll come along but won't shoot. Im still tring to get her to hunters safety as a first step! It was nice back in Kansas though she would do all of the walking but none of the shooting on pheasant hunts

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We may not have had many birds but we were efficient. We bagged the first 5 birds we saw. Drundel and Duckquest didn't hold up there end of the deal on the final three only taking one? Would not have recovered that one if not for the dog. Thought it was a dead kill only to find out it could still walk. Went about 15-20 yards through the salt marsh grass while Drake was duckie and after it. He finally found and brought to hand. Young dog is doing good.

Got a good scare late when 4 birds came right into the dekes locked up. Sailed right in and something didn't appear right on the front bird. I asked TexasWaterfowler to ID before the shot and he did good!!! He called out pintail as they were a couple of feet from the water, saving 4 Pin's and our asses? Damn, that was close?

Mottled in the dekes was cool, at least 3 decoyed. Fell in from high. Would have had pictures but TX lost the camera?

Good early season for our group. Tex please post up our final #'s?

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So how far did the big red make it? Did ya'll really not find the blind this morning? Man, if that's true, then Brad needs a good ass whippin'. He has been to that blind at least 3 times. It's the island on the right!

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116 total, 8 of which were not recovered.

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Big red made it all the way in and back out!!! Mud a Scotts is worst. I made it in there yesterday but tires gummed up on the way out. Good thing its light. Saw another one out there today?

Did not find the blind until after the hunt?

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sounds like fun,
remember,
a bad day in the marsh is still better then a good day at work

( usually anyway )

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We hit the pond and went straight across to the backside. Didn't find the blind so we setup in a spot that looked good. Birds responded well so it was all good.

We'll paint that blind with some orange paint next time out!

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I claim self defense on the ones that got away... I knew I was fine but when Drundel shot over me at his that ported chock made it sound closer than he was. I only got one shot off and had pick out the same bird he shot. We should have shot those birds earlier anyway...

It was still a decent hunt. Nice watching the big ducks decoy.

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Man, Brad, take some iron pills or something dude. You're nav skills are womanlike...

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North wind must have blown your birds to Garwood. We got covered up early. But could not hit crap!!! I have not cleaned my gun since dove season so naturally when the big groups came in it was not feeding the second shell all the way. I was having to slap the side to make it finish loadin

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Man, Brad, take some iron pills or something dude. You're nav skills are womanlike...

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They're surgical gloves, get it right!

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No luck on the camera.

Send me a link to the camera you were talking about.

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Drundel, wasn't a problem...just a surprise

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Sorry ya'll lost your birds. Not like ya'll didn't take advantage while they were there, though.

I had a full crew today. We had 24 teal in less than 30 min. It was probably my best shoot this season. Saw a lot of big ducks and heard some mini canadas on the pond when we first got there. We decoyed one group of about 20-30 pintails. They worked real nice. We coulda put the smackdown on 'em and it woulda been ugly. Excellent day overall.

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