Daisycutter
10-14-2008, 06:38 PM
...of chasing our fine feathered friends around the state. Some thoughts and highlights from the start of the season:
- Forgetting your camera when leaving for several days of duck and goose hunting is a sure way to have many great photo opporunities present themselves, and leave you kicking yourself repeatedly!!:rant:
- 80 degrees in no kind of duck hunting weather!!!!!:rant:
- Having to work very hard to get on the birds in said 80 degree heat, even better!!!:rant:
OK, that's enough :rant:...
- Watching a flock of mallards float down through the tree tops at first light is about as good as it gets.
- Shooting 30 geese in three days is a great way to get young dogs comfortable and proficient with the big birds.
- There is nothing much more fun than dropping multiple birds out of a flock and resending dogs after each retrieve.
- Even after 25 years of doing this, it is still hard to sleep the night before the opener.
- Getting someone on a great shoot, that has never been on one, is better than killing a limit yourself.
- You really do shoot better when you slow down.
I wouldn't say we tore 'em up in the first four days of season, but we were out enjoying it, we did kill some limits, the dogs got good work, a lot of time was spent enjoying friends, and most of all, thank goodness another season is underway. I hope everyone got off to a good start and I look forward to going through the last few days of posts and getting caught up on everyone's opener.
- Forgetting your camera when leaving for several days of duck and goose hunting is a sure way to have many great photo opporunities present themselves, and leave you kicking yourself repeatedly!!:rant:
- 80 degrees in no kind of duck hunting weather!!!!!:rant:
- Having to work very hard to get on the birds in said 80 degree heat, even better!!!:rant:
OK, that's enough :rant:...
- Watching a flock of mallards float down through the tree tops at first light is about as good as it gets.
- Shooting 30 geese in three days is a great way to get young dogs comfortable and proficient with the big birds.
- There is nothing much more fun than dropping multiple birds out of a flock and resending dogs after each retrieve.
- Even after 25 years of doing this, it is still hard to sleep the night before the opener.
- Getting someone on a great shoot, that has never been on one, is better than killing a limit yourself.
- You really do shoot better when you slow down.
I wouldn't say we tore 'em up in the first four days of season, but we were out enjoying it, we did kill some limits, the dogs got good work, a lot of time was spent enjoying friends, and most of all, thank goodness another season is underway. I hope everyone got off to a good start and I look forward to going through the last few days of posts and getting caught up on everyone's opener.