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d4570
.416 Rigby Joined: 27 January 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 9403 |
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Posted: 27 September 2013 at 10:43 |
Thats the sound any Duck/goose hunter longs to hear. Thousands of geese and ducks winging there way in state from the far north.
We had a Cold front move in this week, it dropped a lot of snow in the high mountains and it pushed wave after wave of geese and ducks in. Just in time for the season opener this Saturday. The first time in 36 years I'm able to go on opening DAY, the second day is the worst day of the season. BUT , Yup cant make it, not because of work this time but I've got things slated to do with the Wife. WAT UP WIT DAT !!! Well the boy is on a moose hunt anyway so I'll just have to hit hard later. Really I'd just as soon go bear/wolf hunting anyway. |
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samchap
.416 Rigby Honor, Integrity Joined: 12 August 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1781 |
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Ahhhhhh.....the sight of the sun's edge crawling across
the marsh, the old smell of marsh gas from the rotting vegetation, the chatter of ducks working the shoreline several hundred yards to the left and my lab 100% alert as she sits and vibrates against my leg. The woosh...splash as ducks land right in front of the blind. The black streak of my lab as she makes a hole out through the blind because she still thinks that is the way to get a duck. I've only seen flocks of migrating snow geese [I presume] flying high overhead on a bluebird day once in my life. Many, many large V-formations so high I could just barely make out individual geese. I truly envy your one day opportunity. The very best to you. |
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samchap - Waldoboro, ME
Be careful what you decide to not like. Your wife may wear one. Your son may ride one. Your daughter may bring one home. You may have to have one someday. |
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Irish Bird Dog
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damn geese wake me up nearly every morning in the fall....there is a state refuge about 8 goose air miles from house and they fly down to the grain/corn fields to feed each day and head back each evening. There is a corn field at the back edge of my property here and after they chopped the corn the geese flocked (pun intended) in for the feed of the spilled stuff. Really tho it is a neat sound to hear the geese honking most days lately in the early morning....& again evenings.....music to a hunters ears....don't need to shoot them to appreciate/enjoy them....
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Ursus Major
Administrator Joined: 28 May 2013 Location: Letchworth Park Status: Offline Points: 4925 |
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nothing like dawn and seeing the ducks drop their legs down as they get 3 foot above the decoys. makes the pain of getting up at 2 am, loading the car, driving to the swamp, unloading, paddling into the black jungle, setting deks..........worthwhile
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samchap
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2 AM...Is everything oiled, packaged, hanging and ready to go? Or is that when you start getting stuff ready? Hmmmmm.....where did I leave the .....Uh Oh, need to gas up too. |
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samchap - Waldoboro, ME
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gas up the day before. most packed....but still thermos etc and a 1:30 hour drive to waters edge. usually I don't even try to sleep and get in and deks set an hour or 3 early
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samchap
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Bear, don't you remember being 11-12-13? Were you as
organized then? I can remember thinking as I went to bed that I knew where everything I was going to need was so why spend time tonight getting it out. Then in the early hours rushing around trying to locate those things that weren't where I remembered them to be. Everything always somehow worked out but I do remember the panic and fear until I was out the door and it was still almost dark. After that everything was located on the clothes rack and in the corner behind the door in the entry way. |
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samchap - Waldoboro, ME
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Ursus Major
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Actually, my dad died when I was 10 years old, mom sold the farm (for next to nothing), and we moved into the inner city. I went on a real hunt when I was about 15, borrowed a double barrel 12 ga fox from an older kid. Still remember that day. I walked throw the city streets with the double in two pieces, placed in a paper old used handled shopping bag; barrels protruding. couldn't do that today. Met some other guys, and hunted the 'wild' hillsides of the inner city for rabbits (no dogs). I remember seeing two sets of bunny tracks in the snow. Never saw a rabbit, and as they say "rabbit tracks make very thin soup." I probably couldn't have got the gun up fast enough or hit any think if I tried. Fired at a rock, bruising my shoulder and almost breaking a finger with a slam of the double triggers. Walked home "Happy", hide the gun under a porch rug (it was a no gun house). Yep, I remember that day and most of my other 'first' hunts. Within 5 years, I bought that double and a bow, was shooting DCM 30 Cal and hunting every chance I got. Haven't stopped yet...but I am slowing down. Actually, I owe my hunting and fishing to Outdoor Life and Field and stream. I use to buy those two mags used at a used book store for 5 cents each. I use to buy 4 mags a week and read every word and every ad; then return them for half price 2.5 cents in credit which I used by adding a dime and getting 4 more. Great reading back then, especially Cory Ford. |
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samchap
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samchap - Waldoboro, ME
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I read every Lower 40 column he wrote. really a homespun hunting fishing that is gone today. Loved the hunting "hearse" and "olde stump blower". I have an old bottle that once held burbon, but I put a label on it that says "Olde Stum Blower".
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