2021 Waterfowl Thread
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the spank
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Runningfool;[URL="tel:18455560" said:
fratri;[URL="tel:18455623" said:
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Here is another done with Remali cameras(GoPro knock-offs). Can buy four of them for the price of one GoPro and they have all the same features and work very well.
https://youtu.be/PW9b6v2qhAQ
the spank
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Our snow limit is 15 probably a typo
That makes more sense!
1963beretta
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Awesome video Spank
I thought about strapping on my GoPro on last two duck hunts and Im pissed that I didn’t as I had some great action that would have made great video.
Sadly, my season is likely done. I may be able to squeak in another hunt this Sunday, but that remains to be seen. I think that with this cold weather we’re getting, the swamps will start freezing overnight and most of the mallards and blacks will be gone. If thats the case, I’ll have to start targeting the divers, of which, buffleheads are the only ones I find palatable
I thought about strapping on my GoPro on last two duck hunts and Im pissed that I didn’t as I had some great action that would have made great video.
Sadly, my season is likely done. I may be able to squeak in another hunt this Sunday, but that remains to be seen. I think that with this cold weather we’re getting, the swamps will start freezing overnight and most of the mallards and blacks will be gone. If thats the case, I’ll have to start targeting the divers, of which, buffleheads are the only ones I find palatable
Our snow limit is 15 probably a typo
No typo.
On the North side of the Fraser River, our snow limit is 5. Across on the south side, it is 15.
Makes no sense to me either, but we have only had the snows show up in our Management unit the last 5 years.
the spank
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DFarmer;[URL="tel:18458338" said:
A retired CO that occasionally shoots skeet at our club jokingly told me when they checked a group hunting Snows instead of having to go through taking the time to count every bird it was easier just to measure the pile! Lol
leveractionjunkie
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One day I gotta experience a shoot like that Reddog! Thanks for sharing everyone
fingers284
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And when you do, you want to have a couple cartons of smokes with you to bribe one of the boys at the local Hutterite brethren colony. He'll recruit the ladies needed to process every one of those birds to a table ready state while you join them at their table for a meal that you will never forget.
then , when none of the men are looking you pay the ladies the cash for the work, otherwise they get nothing and the men enjoy the smokes.
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First Goose ever!!!
We were out this morning deer hunting, my wife in the blind with her crossbow for deer and me slightly behind, doing the calling with my shotgun for any incidental geese and ducks. We are less than a click from the Detroit River, so they fly by frequently. We must have seen a thousand snow geese this morning, flying over the next field. All of a sudden my wife tells me there's two geese coming in from the north, I got ready just in time, shot one and missed the second. First Goose down!!! Can't wait to get out there again!!! We had the liver, heart and gizzard for breakfast, I plucked the whole bird (it was a head shot) and that will be Sunday dinner. The bird was a female with two bands, turns out she was a local girl banded in 2019 before she was old enough to fly.
The wife is a hell of a photographer.
We were out this morning deer hunting, my wife in the blind with her crossbow for deer and me slightly behind, doing the calling with my shotgun for any incidental geese and ducks. We are less than a click from the Detroit River, so they fly by frequently. We must have seen a thousand snow geese this morning, flying over the next field. All of a sudden my wife tells me there's two geese coming in from the north, I got ready just in time, shot one and missed the second. First Goose down!!! Can't wait to get out there again!!! We had the liver, heart and gizzard for breakfast, I plucked the whole bird (it was a head shot) and that will be Sunday dinner. The bird was a female with two bands, turns out she was a local girl banded in 2019 before she was old enough to fly.
The wife is a hell of a photographer.
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This was our slowest waterfowl season ever, but we finished it off with the best duck hunt of the season, a seven man limit of greenheads . The ducks came in flocks of 100-200, and in about an hour, we had picked out 56 greenheads, and they kept coming as we packed up and left.
We passed on a lot of shots , with so many birds, we had no problem waiting a little longer, to limit out . We had one instance where birds glided in from two sides, and it looked like a huge vortex, it was so amazing to watch, that nobody fired.
