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Post by goonegoosey on Dec 7, 2011 17:40:34 GMT -5
Saw a couple hundred birds come in to the hole last night, so I decided I would get out a little early this morning. It was a good thing I got started out in the boat at 5:00am. Busted ice near my blind for probably 150yds. But well worth it. Ended up with 3 greenheads, a banded honker, and a buffy. Even if I hadn't got to click the safety off it would have been a great day. I saw an estimated 5-7 hundred birds flying high today. You guys in the south ought to be getting some good shooting in the next few days!!!
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Post by featherduster on Dec 8, 2011 5:24:04 GMT -5
I am glad someboby's getting into them because it sure aint been me.
The area around by me has been so void of birds this year its not funny.
I don't even have birds at my bird feeders.
Hoping this cold snap will improve things a bit.......heck if I just see a bird that would be a 100% improvement.
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Post by joeyb on Dec 9, 2011 7:20:11 GMT -5
Been rough here too. We usually put them down around Thanksgiving and up until a week or so before Christmas. It's like it hasn't even started here. Hope it doesn't miss us.
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Post by DDragon47 on Dec 9, 2011 9:11:04 GMT -5
Sat at the Kank all day and shot 1 mallard at 4:16.
Sundown was 4:18 and the 4 blinds around me each got 1 Mallard.
The Season is over around here.
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Post by featherduster on Dec 9, 2011 11:32:25 GMT -5
Last Sunday I hunted the NE corner of SR8 and SR39 and never fired a shot however the SE corner pounded them till 11:00am when they quit shooting for the day.
Hunted my place every day this week and saw (never shot at) but saw about 10 ducks.
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Post by goonegoosey on Dec 9, 2011 16:40:30 GMT -5
Out this morning at 5:15 and stayed until 11:30. Got two honkers and saw maybe 15 ducks total. The front pushed em out. Hope some new birds show up this evening.
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Post by Boilermaker on Dec 9, 2011 16:41:27 GMT -5
Saw a TON of birds last weekend down here south of Indy. Most were high but we had a total of 5 mallards, a merganser and a wood duck. Headed out in the morning on the river CAN'T WAIT!
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Post by hornzilla on Dec 9, 2011 18:16:16 GMT -5
Not much happening here south of Brazil
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Post by goonegoosey on Dec 10, 2011 20:59:54 GMT -5
Got to the boat this morning and was frozen in the water. 1/2 to 3/4 inch 3-4 hundred yards out til I hit open water. Hunting buddies didnt go either so I decided to hit the river. Saw probably 200 plus mallards, a few woodrows, 5 blacks, and couldn't count the geese. Ended up bagging a few. Had 3 bucks bed down less than 50 yards from me on one set. Saw a family of otters playing around. Great hunt even if I wouldn't have gotten to click the safety off!!! Be carefull out there the water is still a tad high
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Post by jordanffemt on Dec 10, 2011 21:53:06 GMT -5
sounds like a good day. headed to patoka lake in the morning
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Post by crisiscowboy on Dec 11, 2011 0:57:19 GMT -5
sounds like a good day. headed to patoka lake in the morning good luck! |
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Post by jordanffemt on Dec 11, 2011 5:15:29 GMT -5
buddy cancelled out at 330 this morning with a sick baby
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Post by DDragon47 on Dec 11, 2011 8:57:01 GMT -5
Last day for the for us up here.
All ice and still not may birds to be seen.
May be buy Christmas Santa will bring us some Mallards.
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Post by esshup on Dec 11, 2011 15:34:11 GMT -5
The farm that we hunt has a LOT of ditches running thru it, and they're all open. We saw maybe 150 Mallards yesterday, and maybe 70 today. Yesterday we limited out on Mallards (3 of us) and I also shot a drake Gadwall. I limited out on one flock, first shot dropped a greenhead, 2nd shot dropped a greenhead and a hen, and the 3rd shot dropped another greenhead. 3 of us shot 7 birds from that flock.
Poor planning and execution today. Even tho we saw all those birds, we only fired 6 shots and really shouldn't have. 0 birds.
It figures, season closes just when the hunting gets good. I really wish they'd open the season up here at least 2 weeks later, if not 3 weeks.
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Post by featherduster on Dec 12, 2011 6:10:14 GMT -5
Went out yesterday morning only because it was the last day and you never know.
About 9:00am I was picking up my stuff when I heard geese coming from the east, what I witnessed was about 4-5 flocks with about 600+ geese with a few snows mixed in.
These flocks were being trailed by several flocks of ducks,all the birds were high and headed west.
This was the largest movement of birds I have seen at one time in many many years.
With all the hype that was written about this years duck season I will say for sure that this was the worst on record for me.
It will be interesting to see what will happen on the second season for those that will hunt on Christmas eve and Christmas day.
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Post by joeyb on Dec 12, 2011 8:23:57 GMT -5
Went out yesterday morning only because it was the last day and you never know. About 9:00am I was picking up my stuff when I heard geese coming from the east, what I witnessed was about 4-5 flocks with about 600+ geese with a few snows mixed in. These flocks were being trailed by several flocks of ducks,all the birds were high and headed west. This was the largest movement of birds I have seen at one time in many many years. With all the hype that was written about this years duck season I will say for sure that this was the worst on record for me. It will be interesting to see what will happen on the second season for those that will hunt on Christmas eve and Christmas day. It's been the same down here. In years past I'd have 40-60 ducks on count by now. And definitely some limits of geese. So far this year I've shot 2 ducks and 2 geese. It's been insanely bad. Lots of hype for this season, but I sure haven't seen this record number of birds they talked about. It's supposed to warm up this week, so I'm hoping it holds the new birds we've received. Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is to get on some birds before January! |
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Post by DDragon47 on Dec 12, 2011 9:20:59 GMT -5
(It figures, season closes just when the hunting gets good. I really wish they'd open the season up here at least 2 weeks later, if not 3 weeks.)
Like I said before hunt the 3rd weekend in Oct. Then start the season on the first Saterday in Nov.
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Post by indianagooseman on Dec 22, 2011 17:39:43 GMT -5
I saw an estimated 5-7 hundred birds flying high today. You guys in the south ought to be getting some good shooting in the next few days!!! We're still waiting. |
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Post by joeyb on Dec 23, 2011 8:06:07 GMT -5
It has been getting better for us here around west and south of Indy. We've been hitting a lot of draw hunts since we can't get in our fields. They've been ok. Did my worst day ever of shooting on Wednesday. But have finally put some meat in the freezer. I really want to be in a field, but I don't want to rut it up and lose my permission. Hope everyone else does well over the holiday weekend.
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