This season was the toughest that I have had in a long time. Even though it was colder than last year we did not have any ducks or geese show up until after Christmas. We can normally count on killing geese but this year they seemed to stay in the fields and not move to the creek until later in the day.
This was the take on the last day of the season. This was 4 guns and we hunted till almost 3pm. We had to break a whole in the ice and we ended up fighting the ice all day. We also had some gapers show up 30 minutes after shooting time that pretty much made it impossible to kill anything until they left. Dad and I should have limited out but neither of us were shooting straight except for on this one mallard that I sky busted. I got a go pro for x-mas and I am trying to figure out how to get good footage. I need some tips from my buddy Will James with the Gar Hole Crew.
Lil Kelly and I hunted the second to last weekend of the season and had a decent hunt. We hunted #3 with a south wind that was steady. We spent half the day scouting a spot further up the creek. Check out the wing feathers on that spec black duck.
I ran down to SC to team up with Huston, Ragsdale, and Fairy and the Ragsdale's treated us to two spectacular hunts. The first morning we hunted the impoundment closest to the house and limited out quickly on wood ducks. As you can see H-dog did more whiskey killing than he did duck killing. The picture below is from our Sunday morning hunt. We had approximately 15 guns and we all limited out on ring necks.
Bob, Uncle Kelly, Dad, and I all hunted the first weekend in January and it was really slow. It was a bluebird day and we managed to scrape out 1 greenhead, 1 black duck, and one goo.
Mase and I joined Uncle Kelly and Greg on their post x-mas hunt and managed to scrape a few out in mediocre conditions. Mase and I spent more time fighting motors than we did hunting. The birds we killed decoyed perfectly.
On opening day Vlad, Gordon, and I managed to smack 4 geese all of which did it right. It was bluebird and we barely saw any ducks.
I hunted a handful of other times with Oakey and the Kings but the results were pretty mediocre and I have no pics to share. We did pretty well at the Kings. We had a group of ten geese do it and they all died. I think Will has dome decent footage of that, he will have up on his blog. Here is some footage of two geese going down. Notice all I have to do is point my gun at them and they fold. If I had pulled the trigger Carrington's ear's would still be ringing.
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