Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 7:44 pm
with all due respect for what you witnessed and were a part of this morning Deadeye...you can do that in the offseason 
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 7:45 pm
NO! I may watch for a little while, but it is only when the season is closed. When the season is open it"s killin time. I've got the rest of the year to watch. Don't get me wrong, I love to watch ducks. They are by far the most graceful creature around. Trying to explain the beauty of ducks dropping from a mile high cupped up all the way to the water is impossible to do unless that person has seen it. When the season is open, I enjoy that beauty all the way to the skillet .
.Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 8:14 pm
You mean you have ducks? No mercy until I have a few good hunts- Its personal now.....
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:03 pm
I hear ya deadeye. I have done that before myself. One morning my father in law and me went duck hunting. We got to the hole only to see that ducks had kept it thawed through the night. I mean this is exactly what you want to see. Right?? So we sat there and waited until daylight. At daylight there were so many ducks coming into that little piece of thawed water that we never thought to shoot. We just sat there and watched. Finally we got up and left.
One of the best hunts I have ever been on.
One of the best hunts I have ever been on.
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 4:24 pm
Deadeye.....I've done that.........'kinda neat just to watch what they do. We've all seen the 'picture' (feet down, reaching for water), but so many times we don't give the birds a chance to show us what they do when they aren't being shot at.
I was scouting during the split and motored into a roost of geese. I figured there might be some honkers using this chute (and it was honker season), but I decoded not to take a gun.......just binoculars. The fog was thick enough that I got within 60yds of them before I saw'em. And normally, they woulda lifted outa there.......but about the time I realized they were there and shut the motor off, the nose of the boat ran=up on a high spot in the trail and it stopped me. The geese weren't real agitated (which surprised me). So, I just sat still and watched'em until 'fly-out'.
They swam around and kept a watchful eye for the next 30-40 minutes. I counted 18 birds several times, but could hear more farther back in the fog.
When they took-off, the whole bunch came over me at between 30-45 feet up. I didn't look right at'em, but from the way they flew toward me, it appeared every one of them was killable. I estimated about 40.
It was worth sitting there and watching them, for the moment they lifted-off and came right over me. Made my whole day.
I've had that happen one other time when I had a gun. But we blocked the only lane they had to leave the roost spot, so i didn't think it was quite 'fair' to take advantage of that situation. It woulda been different if we'd called them to our spread.
Don't get me wrong........I'm pretty trigger happy right now. 'Got a group of gadwalls that have duped us a couple of times, now........I'm trying to figure how to get to'em so I can even the score. I think we're just going to try to be patient........they'll work us next time......but we just have to get in the 'spot'.
Some folks reach a point in their hunting careers (if it ever happens at all), where you realize that killing is just a matter of pulling the trigger.......and it's really the 'hunt' and getting close to the birds, that thrills you.......almost to the point where you derive as much joy from it, when you have the opportunity to pull the trigger......and 'don't'.
I was scouting during the split and motored into a roost of geese. I figured there might be some honkers using this chute (and it was honker season), but I decoded not to take a gun.......just binoculars. The fog was thick enough that I got within 60yds of them before I saw'em. And normally, they woulda lifted outa there.......but about the time I realized they were there and shut the motor off, the nose of the boat ran=up on a high spot in the trail and it stopped me. The geese weren't real agitated (which surprised me). So, I just sat still and watched'em until 'fly-out'.
They swam around and kept a watchful eye for the next 30-40 minutes. I counted 18 birds several times, but could hear more farther back in the fog.
When they took-off, the whole bunch came over me at between 30-45 feet up. I didn't look right at'em, but from the way they flew toward me, it appeared every one of them was killable. I estimated about 40.
It was worth sitting there and watching them, for the moment they lifted-off and came right over me. Made my whole day.
I've had that happen one other time when I had a gun. But we blocked the only lane they had to leave the roost spot, so i didn't think it was quite 'fair' to take advantage of that situation. It woulda been different if we'd called them to our spread.
Don't get me wrong........I'm pretty trigger happy right now. 'Got a group of gadwalls that have duped us a couple of times, now........I'm trying to figure how to get to'em so I can even the score. I think we're just going to try to be patient........they'll work us next time......but we just have to get in the 'spot'.
Some folks reach a point in their hunting careers (if it ever happens at all), where you realize that killing is just a matter of pulling the trigger.......and it's really the 'hunt' and getting close to the birds, that thrills you.......almost to the point where you derive as much joy from it, when you have the opportunity to pull the trigger......and 'don't'.
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 4:37 pm
Sorry but I'll have to admit it. It all about the killin for me.
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:53 am
Don't get me wrong fella's... I enjoy the killin' as much as anyone and Friday monring when I went, there was gonna be some killin. But when it came time for the killin to begin, I just didn't... can't explain it.
Now, part two of the story.. Saturday morning. Went back with the high expectations of smokin their hind ends. I knew the ice would be worse, but my hole was completely locked up. I opened it up enough, threw out 7 decoys and waited. Not the first duck. I didn't work a duck. I had to get up every 20 minutes and open the hole back up.
Now I told you these two stories to tell you this. And it's what my granddaddy told me many a year ago... "bale the hay while the sun's shining!" Period, end of story. When you have ducks, shoot ducks!
Deadeye... has got some makeup baling to do.
Now, part two of the story.. Saturday morning. Went back with the high expectations of smokin their hind ends. I knew the ice would be worse, but my hole was completely locked up. I opened it up enough, threw out 7 decoys and waited. Not the first duck. I didn't work a duck. I had to get up every 20 minutes and open the hole back up.
Now I told you these two stories to tell you this. And it's what my granddaddy told me many a year ago... "bale the hay while the sun's shining!" Period, end of story. When you have ducks, shoot ducks!
Deadeye... has got some makeup baling to do.
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:58 am
Temperance. Good stuff, Todd. Or so I've heard.
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:29 am
Went back this morning to "settle the score" before the rain moved in. Good, stiff southeast wind put the ducks right out in front with their backs to me. I carried a buddy of mine this morning that's only been on a couple of hunts. I told him if everything works like it should, we would shoot 'em in the backs about 20-30 yards out. He said shoot 'em in the back? I said yep, they going to be runnin' from the law! Had a good hunt.
3 mallards, 4 greys
Deadeye... did a little more killin, little less watching this morning.
3 mallards, 4 greys
Deadeye... did a little more killin, little less watching this morning.
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:49 am
We saw the tail ends of them birds the other day
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:55 am
nutten like sum tail end before wurk
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:58 am
dead i
send some our way...
good job...
send some our way...
good job...
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:47 pm
bigwater wrote:dead i
Negro please... it's DEADEYE.. I have a reputation to protect!
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:56 pm
you've got to call them dux..
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 2:05 pm
Good job on the follow up.