pin feathers on male mallards back wings are worth some $. use for tying joe smelts , my favorite spring pattern.
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Speaking of tying… I need to get on it. I have a small gift box of flies to make and mail out. Plus I need to use up some of the squirrel tails I’ve saved from past hunts.
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used to be wood duck the lemon sides and the barred, or really jungle cock and polar bear lol
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What cha got for calls, I used to use nothing but Yentzen double and triple reeded even thou mallardtone was made up there in Moline.
When i worked at a machine shop we made everything but the reed for some champion goose caller cant recall his name.
Got rid of all that stuff after I got popped.
Couple hundred duck decoys, 2 handfuls of calls.
Miss thee fuck out of it, wish I was out there with ya ill show ya how to call those mallards and whistle them woodies.
Wed have a grand ole time.
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Oh fore sure man… I’m taking a guy this year that’s never hunted them and watching woodies zoom by opening day and cracking that Canada has got him hooked lol
For calls, as long as I have a good double reed for ducks I’m good… Screaming on a Primos Wench currently, as far as geese go… I’ve never been able to sound right without a short reed call… My flute calls dont ever break right and sound like a cackler getting strangled haha
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I used to hunt all that starting from Andalusia to Spring Lake that borders the upper Mississippi fish and wildlife refuge.
Wapsi bottoms in iowa
Out lieing area consists of all drainage ditches and cornfieds.
Ah the good ole days.
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point system was always in play
Drakes 25
Suzy 75
Woodies 90
Teal 10
Reds and cans one and done 100 pts.
Pintails 25
Scaup these would come down end of Dec/January. 10 daily bag
Big rafts of them.
Mudchickens you could shoot 10 of them
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Trying to get in a stand w this cold front coming thru this week. Family plans not allowing me to get out this weekend.
Went for 4 days over the opener, only real shot I couldve taken was on a doe, but didnt in hopes of seeing a big buck close by. Did see one about 80 yards in some brush, otherwise just a bunch of youngins.
Was nice to be back in a stand. Can’t wait to get in a blind after some ducks soon. Oh, and I can’t call for shit!
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Sweet ,tie flies myself I like the idea of a bead on the head on the ant and those legs look awesome also!
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prime time down that way for rut is
End week of Oct thru first week of Nov.
Probably won’t see many bucks chasing this early, shouldve took her.
Unless they’re were early fawns from year before.
Late season fawns is why you see a false rut after Dec.
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Yeah 1st deer of the season, caught me off guard. Then all of a sudden a dozen sets of eyes were all around me.
1st week of Nov is so much fun.
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tis the season!
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I came across this on one of the hunting pages im on on Facebook… this guys lucky to be alive. Copy and pasted from his post. I didn’t edit out his face cause, well… its everywhere online now
When you see us hunters constantly saying “know your target and beyond,” Its because one day it could be you in the tree, or your son making a terrible mistake. Please, at the end of the day, we all want to go home to our families.
UPDATE, GOFUNDME in the comments
Here is Wayne’s story
Ok so as promised i’ll try to right the story of my accident but won’t make it to long. First of all I’d like to thank everyone who has supported me in any way even if it was just wishing me well, its been an extremely rough road and ill most likely suffer for the rest of my life.
On September 22 at roughly 7:30 P.M. I was sitting in my hang on stand on a cut line on crown land about a mile behind my house. as light was starting to fade a atv approached but stopped at Roughly 100 yards then proceeded to turn around and takeoff. I thought it was my neighbour not wanting to disturb me, so I wrote him a quick text but evidently he never received it. About ten minutes later a side by side came and stopped at the same place, which I thought was very weird, so I got up and was getting ready to get down to go talk to them but I seen somebody run to the edge of the cutline. so I figured they had seen a bear, since we have loads of them around. Thats when HORROR! struck! A feeling that’s carved into my memory it gives me nightmares I dream that I’m there in that puddle of blood just to wake up in a puddle of sweat shaking like a horrified dog. all I remember is seeing that vapour wave and feeling a thud on my body from a 7mm bullet. At first I didn’t know where I had been hit but I screamed for help and gasped for air because I could just imagine my lungs filling with blood. I lifted my shirt and the blood poured out! then I got dizzy so I clung to the tree. Next thing I knew I woke up on the ground with my neighbour putting pressure on the wound, then I realized my lungs weren’t filling up I think that’s what kept me from blacking out. it took roughly 45 minutes for stars and the rest of the first responders to get there. they made quick work and carried me out by stretcher roughly half a mile. as soon as I was in the chopper they gave me four units of blood, they flew me to Grande Prairie and from there on a Learjet to Edmonton. apparently they flew in a couple of Canadas best doctors and if I understand right they worked on me about six hours, they pulled an artery from my left leg for my shoulder because the bullet hit the main artery to my arm. so the main reason my arm is paralyzed is because it was without blood to ten hours. They say with lots of therapy I might get it back but the chances are slim. so long story short the first quad was the neighbours daughter she thought she saw a cougar, she then went and got her dad and brother. when they got there before the dad even got a chance to look the 14 year old son had pulled the trigger… the Dad ended up saving my life by applying compression and calling emergency. they turned themselves in and I’m happy with how things were dealt. Dear fellow hunters I hope this will be a sharp reminder to use your brains! the only reason I’m alive is because the same caliber bullet that I’ve seen go through a moose didn’t make it through my shoulder. if it would’ve gone through they could have never stopped the bleeding enough. And another thing I want to add is I’ve heard Quite a bit complaints about the police/fish cops lately yes they make there mistakes and even I’ve had some officers that were not considerate. But the police I dealt with was willing to put blood on his hands to save my life and he called my wife almost everyday after just to make sure things were ok. therefore I’m gratefull for them and really they’re humans just like us they will make mistakes but they’re doing there job and they deal with a lot of crappy people!
hopefully I didn’t miss to much or make it to long🤭
Please keep the comments respectful.
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A perfect example of a miracle and at the same time bad sportsmanship on the part of the shooter… Accidents like these never have to happen…NEVER pull a trigger if you are unsure of your target, it could be a person rustling that bush and grunting thinking you’re the same buck that you are mistaking him for…
It’s sad but it does happen… Just be safe out there everyone… follow precautions and return back in one piece with no extra holes
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Yea, the kid should have known better. Being from the country in alberta theres a 99% chance hes a hunter, which means he’s had mandatory hunter education.
Where I’m at its mandatory as well… and I’m about 80% sure I had a gun pointed at me out of a truck window this weekend. Buddy and I were working a patch of bush along a river. Just as we popped put of the woods into a sunken cut block a truck was cruising by above us. I always watch guys with my binoculars in a case like that. At first i could see both his elbows on the window sill as if he was using binoculars too, so i gave a wave. Then he dissapeared and when he showed back up his posture was changed and it was more like he was leaning back at an angle, kind of the way you would if you were shouldering a rifle through a window.
Its not mandatory to wear orange here, which we wernt. BUT I ruined my camo jacket by leaving orange king gloves in once when I washed it, so its an orangy, brown pinkish camo now. Buddy was carrying a blue fold up lawn chair, and we arnt exactly small people. So we moved behind a large tree and I held out my high vis orange rain jacket just to be 100%
Plain and simple if someone shoots at me I’m shooting back, whether its going over their head or into the box of their truck they will at that point know without question that im not a deer lol
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I’m a butcher by trade cut up plenty of game animals for people over the years biggest one yet was an elk
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Yes sir, that sounds like a fair deal. Shoot at me and I am shooting back. I have a bad habit of hitting where I aim as well, so verify your target!!!
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very fuckin fortunate
Orange not mandatory up there, wth?
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Depends on the province. In BC I can be in a full ghillie suit lol
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