Post by esshup on Dec 29, 2012 19:28:36 GMT -5
A few fell anyway.
My shooting buddy took his son on his first waterfowl hunt. We were hunting in a chopped and chiseled cornfield. We had maybe 100+ Mallards land 400 yds away, and the main body of geese landed out more towards the center of the field, 150 yds away.
Here's his first Drake Mallard:
His first goose:
Here's a big goose that I dropped:
Todays bag, minus one goose. We picked it up on the way out as it sailed a LONG ways:
Birds and gun:
And one with the mutt after I got home:
We had a pair of Pintails circling early in the day, but they wouldn't get low enough. I've been shooting too much with 1200 fps lead shot at clay birds and was over leading the birds by a bunch. If I would have been on my game I would have had a limit of Mallards too.
Not a bad morning for not even being on the "X". The geese didn't want to commit to the dekes for some reason. But, enough gave them a close enough look to knock down a few. Typically the landing gear was down, then retracted.....
My shooting buddy took his son on his first waterfowl hunt. We were hunting in a chopped and chiseled cornfield. We had maybe 100+ Mallards land 400 yds away, and the main body of geese landed out more towards the center of the field, 150 yds away.
Here's his first Drake Mallard:
His first goose:
Here's a big goose that I dropped:
Todays bag, minus one goose. We picked it up on the way out as it sailed a LONG ways:
Birds and gun:
And one with the mutt after I got home:
We had a pair of Pintails circling early in the day, but they wouldn't get low enough. I've been shooting too much with 1200 fps lead shot at clay birds and was over leading the birds by a bunch. If I would have been on my game I would have had a limit of Mallards too.
Not a bad morning for not even being on the "X". The geese didn't want to commit to the dekes for some reason. But, enough gave them a close enough look to knock down a few. Typically the landing gear was down, then retracted.....
