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calavera Offline
#1 Posted: Sun, Sep 22 2002, 3:16 AM EST
Joined: 01-26-2002
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Yesterday was opening day for ducks, geese, snipe, and cranes here in ND. Nothing like the alarm going off at 4:30 am. Drag yourself out of bed, make a big pot of coffee. Load up the decoys, waders etc and head out to the hills. It was a perfect day. Partly to mostly cloudy and cool (temps in the 30's early, 50's later). Plenty of ducks, and I managed to get a limit (not going to mention how many shells it took me to do it). Even got the bonus giant Canada goose. The dog performed like a pro. She is a pointer and really prefers to hunt pheasants, but decided to humor me and find and retreive ducks for me. She even retreived a goose for another guy that I was with whose own dog, a golden retreiver, would not. Made me feel proud. Finished off the day with a Dominican Cohiba that I had been saving for 6 months. Mild, but very flavourful. Perfect wrapper and construction. Draw was good and it burned as evenly as any cigar that I have ever smoked. All in all a great day.
CJBully Offline
#2 Posted: Sun, Sep 22 2002, 4:25 AM EST
Joined: 07-31-2002
Posts: 753
ahhhhh, the smell of burnt gunpowder and tobacco!
BMW Offline
#3 Posted: Sun, Sep 22 2002, 6:31 AM EST
Joined: 10-21-2000
Posts: 3,010
I love it when hunting season starts. All of my favorite fishing holes suddenly become vacant. LoL.
Barry
RobertParrott Offline
#4 Posted: Sun, Sep 22 2002, 6:39 AM EST
Joined: 06-27-2001
Posts: 344
Waterfowl hunting is one of the things that I miss about living in CT. The goose hunting there is great, it's more fun than people should be allowed to have with a shot gun. We had the perfect spot at the corner of 2 60 acre fields that had been planted with feed corn. The blind was set in the inside corner of the L shape the fields made, it was perfect. We would limit out (10 per day, per person) every day that we hunted.
,br> One morning during a break in the flocks the 5 of us were standing around smoking cigars when a herd of deer(15 or so) went walking into the middle of the decoys 75 feet from the blind. While we were talking about how funny it was that after an hour of non stop shooting and 5 guys standing in plain sight smoking cigars that these deer just come walking out and stand there feeding and looking at us, some holding guns, some not. The game warden that walked up 2 minutes later scared the herd off, he said it was a test to see if we were pochers. He checked our guns, ammo and left, and warned us about his trained deer herd, just in case we had any ideas.
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