Oakey and I wrapped up the season with a bang. We got to the marsh on Friday afternoon with only about an hour and a half to hunt and #1 creek which is right out in front of our shack was totally jammed with geese that were trying to stay out of the wind. I have seen them sit in the mouth of this creed a bunch but never pile in all the way up in the marsh like they were this time. We decided to hunt double ought which is the oldest blind in the marsh and named that because my grandfather once dropped a deer with double ought buck shot from the same blind. This was the first time we hunted this blind all season and we were not sorry. We quickly killed our limit of geese and swatted 3 wood ducks which was a total surprise. We usually only see woodies in the first part of the season. I sky busted one goose but everything else had its feet down. The next morning we hunted #4 and it was pretty much the same story. We had a group of about 4o geese do it just right and we dropped our limit out of that one group. We ended up scraping out 4 mallards and probably could have dropped a couple more if we were on our game at first light but I think we were both over served the night before and not firing on all cylinders at first light.
Dex did great as usual but he let one cripple get away that he definitely would have caught up to two years ago. The old man is starting to slow down a little bit but is still no softy as you can tell by the ice in his coat. He still has the fire in his belly
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