28 Apr Pheasant/DuckFinally sent these in as we were just sitting around looking over all the pictures from last season. Had a great year. Didn't push it too hard with dad recovering like he was. Found plenty of birds and did so in areas we would not have expected to, again more caused by dad. The tall grass was just too tough for him. The deer picture will probably make the hunter who lost it sick to see it. The picture of me and the dog we threw in as it by luck was just right before where we found the deer. Dad took the pictures this time as snow is something we don't get to see that much. I think he wanted mom to see how tough we were to be out hunting in such conditions. Ducks were good too. About half the days we had enough flights to make for some good calling. The dog worked great. We don't get to hunt from blinds where we duck hunt. Dad liked it more going after ducks so we did more of that than birds. Probably cause he could sit down. Had two great mornings, those once in a season kind of days twice on one trip. We still talk about those days. We were just on and the ducks came early, came fast and all were drake mallards. That's why we come back to get what we can't hunt at home. Thanks for your help, wish there was something like the association down here. We just don't have all that you do up there. Buddy
Thanks guys for the pictures and the season account. We had heard about your duck days and it was good to know you all had a good time.
Non-Resident Hunter
John I wanted to get these photos to you as soon as I could. After our pre season conversation concerning the bad weather, I held off to schedule this year's hunt. Upon my mid-morning arrival in [location deleted] I drove into a light rain, 40 degree temp and 12 MPH winds. After a morning call to the office, we discussed my options of hunting the farm that I reserved for my first hunt with the association.
After reaching the farm I was disappointed on finding the adjoining landowner put his property into walk-in-hunting and also burned off a 1/4 section of CRP grass to the south of my hunt site. By mid-afternoon I started scouting the property creek edges and by 5:30 I located 13 hens and 2 gobblers feeding and strutting in an alfalfa field and watching their travel pattern picked out my blind location. Friday A.M. was calm with a heavy dew. The toms were gobbling by 6:15 and the hens were more vocal than any previous season. With toms calling to the west and south of my setup the dekes and a little calling on my part brought the birds back into the alfalfa field. The hens would approach the setup and back off into the timber, then return, this continued for over an hour. And finally they brought 2 toms with them and with a little more calling and patients this tom came into range, and it is now 9:15 and I'm heading back to the truck to take a nap. Gary [last name deleted]
Thanks Gary for coming by and visiting. Sharing your hunting account of how the birds worked is always interesting reading to see how hunts went for others.
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