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Well we did it 2 Crane in the box

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    Posted: 15 September 2015 at 05:55

Two week ago the wife and I went scouting in our sand hill crane unit. We got a good lead and got permission to hunt for Sand Hill crane.
My boy and I hit it opening day. 2:30 am and I'm loading the suburban and heading to his house to roll down the highway.
One half hour before the season opened we are standing in neck high grass on the banks of the river with crane in front of us. Darker then But, with no moon we stumbled through the alfalfa field to where we thought we wanted to be.
I'm very glad we did our home work on this on, it turned out we HAD to fill the tags in one day and would not be able to get back, only a three week hunting season and "THE" moose hunt would take up the next few weeks.
The pre scouting, looking at the maps, google earth, and boots on the ground talking with the locals . All put us in a drainage in to the river ,with the wind to our backs and 80 crane in front of us, all waiting for the sun.
When it started IT STARTED. Two minutes after legal shooting time they started to lift off the river in groups of 3 and 4. They headed right over our heads. The first three where just to my side on the right. I took the 870 loaded with my coyote loads and goose loads. I had in two 3 1/2" 1 1/2 oz. of steel BBB and one 1 /5/8 oz. of Lead F for back up. The last two where not needed the crane folded and crashed 30 yards to my right.
My boy pulled up on the next pair and shot, a miss ( very strange for him ) he racked in another or at least tried ,JAMMED...
Now it was pandemonium, there was 80 or so crane in the air only yards over our heads.
He hollered, "DAD give me your gun" which I did with out an explanation. The 870 went off again , the crane hit the ground with an audial thud.
There! minutes in to the season and we are tagged out.
GOD I love it when a plan comes together...
First ever to us crane and back home for lunch.
Six hours driving round trip, half hour out and back and three minutes shooting PERFICT !











    There dark meat. Looks like beef roast ,raw and cooked.
No plucking way to field dress them, rip the breast off with a "Wing slinger " and skin it , skin the legs and where finished in about 3 minutes each.

I BBQ ed one half the breast and a thigh ,after I marinated in milk for an hour or two, for dinner when I got home. Covered it with some bacon onion, and fresh garlic rapped it in tin foil and cooked it like a beef roast for 45 minutes, To long by the way. It was very good with the left over pasta salad we had in the fridge



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Congratulations! Wow they're a big bird. Now you can
concentrate on Moose & coyotes!

They're yippin' all around me these nights.

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"Now you can
concentrate on Moose & coyotes!"

Thanks!

AND building my Mini Aluminum catamaran airboat, The "Airhog"

   The kids are going this weekend and maybe get the moose before I can go with them. Dang not packing a moose will brake my heart...

I know we should have been calling earlier this year I'm getting very busy now...

We are having the heads beadle eaten like a European mount


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Congrats D....another chapter for your BOOK YOU ARE GOING
TO WRITE...SOON
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