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Post by marshallco on Oct 14, 2022 22:08:49 GMT -5
Got 1 kid going in the morning, taking 2 other dads/kids. Ponds are nearly dried up, but that just concentrates the birds that are there. Hope the birds we’ve seen aren’t roosting there, find out in the morning. Good luck to all who are going!
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Post by marshallco on Oct 15, 2022 8:29:58 GMT -5
 3 kids, 8 ducks. 2 mallards and 6 teal. Lots of birds flying, lots of shooting. My kid ran out of shells! |
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Post by marshallco on Oct 15, 2022 8:30:35 GMT -5
 My kid with 2 green wings. |
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Post by bowonlykindofguy1 on Oct 15, 2022 10:12:18 GMT -5
Way to go!
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Post by budd on Oct 15, 2022 10:38:02 GMT -5
Not having fun if you have shells left after the hunt!!!
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Post by esshup on Oct 15, 2022 10:54:09 GMT -5
Good going!! Did you have a dog to go get them or did you have to slog through the mud? I had a flock of woodies land on the pond here last night.
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Post by marshallco on Oct 15, 2022 12:40:35 GMT -5
No dog for anyone. I’m glad I didn’t let him burn a shell on the muskrat we saw before shooting light!
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Post by featherduster on Oct 15, 2022 17:19:22 GMT -5
As a old friend once said "I didn't carry all these shells out here so I could carry them back"!
Great job taking the the youth hunters out.
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Post by budd on Oct 16, 2022 8:01:02 GMT -5
Northern ducks are making a push, lake beside my house sounds like a war zone this morning.
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Post by wadwinger22 on Oct 30, 2022 7:26:26 GMT -5
Some nice youth action in the south zone  |
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Post by featherduster on Oct 30, 2022 9:05:04 GMT -5
NOW there's a kid that looks like he had fun with a Capital "F".
Empty shell belt and fists full of ducks.
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Post by wadwinger22 on Oct 30, 2022 9:31:57 GMT -5
NOW there's a kid that looks like he had fun with a Capital "F". Empty shell belt and fists full of ducks. He was all smiles! He could have got six but he was letting teal land and fly off waiting for a green head that never came lol |
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Post by marshallco on Oct 30, 2022 21:01:55 GMT -5
Those teal are tough coming in, but your boy didn’t seem to have a problem! We’ve been though a box and half of shells in 2 sits. I don’t blame him though to wait for those fat, slow mallards. Bet he had fun!
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Post by esshup on Oct 31, 2022 9:22:39 GMT -5
They are flooding the fields @ Rt 8 and 39 @ Kankakee.
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Post by wadwinger22 on Oct 31, 2022 18:58:16 GMT -5
Those teal are tough coming in, but your boy didn’t seem to have a problem! We’ve been though a box and half of shells in 2 sits. I don’t blame him though to wait for those fat, slow mallards. Bet he had fun! Man we had birds all over but we were about 150 yards off the X. It’s hard to compete with several hundred live birds right next to us! But it was one of the most amazing hunts I’ve ever seen. I’ve hunted Arkansas and even that was hard to compare. |
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Post by marshallco on Oct 31, 2022 21:05:30 GMT -5
That is the neatest but most frustrating thing to have birds working, but not just over you! Never been to Arkansas or any place like that, but Have Featherduster chime in here, I’m sure he had action in the 1980’s here in north central Indiana that was second to none. We hunted in the same general location. I had some good sits then too, but I was only in high school. It’s a really neat thing to have hundreds or thousands of birds working a spread.
This year we’ve had more teal than ever before, and not many woodies. About the same amount of local mallards. Hope we see some northern birds around thanksgiving before things normally freeze. Congrats again to you and your boy, those are fun times!
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Post by marshallco on Oct 31, 2022 21:09:45 GMT -5
BTW, the places I’m talking about is at SR 8 and SR 39, just like Eshup said above. That place still holds birds, but nothing like 30-40 years ago.
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Post by wadwinger22 on Nov 5, 2022 21:40:43 GMT -5
 Early season with the boy again. One of his limit he got today. |
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