Nothing helps a hangover like more beer! Lets see some pics from this past year to help hold us through the March drought.
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King Eider in NC
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Diver Slam with 4 prime drakes
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Veterans hunt our Delta Chapter hosted for these four vets.
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Swan hunt with my father and grandfather.
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Bird number 200 for the season.
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Youth hunt hosted by our Delta chapter. 16 kids with 32 bluebills. What a day!
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How is Orienteering class?
Nice photos, thanks for sharing them. Looks like you had a great season!
Quote from: the Ward on March 08, 2014, 09:39:00 AM
Nice photos, thanks for sharing them. Looks like you had a great season!
:agreed: Nice pictures!
Season started strong but the weather didn't cooperate too well towards the end of the year. Any season with good friends is a good one though!
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Nice pics guys. Glad you had a good season filled with lots of fun....
Here's a few from my season.
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And my favorite from the year.
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I hunt in the central valley of California in what is referred to as the grasslands. This area consists of close to 200,000 acres of marsh that is primarily duck clubs, with some refuges and private reserves as well.
Teal are our staple bird, but we kill a lot of pintail, widgeon, spoonies, gadwall, and in recent years we kill a lot of canvasbacks as well as redheads. Mallards are not rare, but a mallard in the bag is always a prize as they are far less common than any of the birds mentioned above.
This past year was the worst duck season I can ever remember, probably in large part due to a lack of weather, and thus a lack of migration (we only had about 1/3 to 1/2 of our normal amount of migrating birds this season). Below are some hunts from this past season:
Typical grasslands teal shoot (14 teal):
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Pheasant opener at my duck club with a 2 bird limit of pheasant, and the only duck of the day (we call this the November doldrums):
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Christmas morning hunt with my father (2 cans, 2 redheads, 4 sprig, 6 gw teal and a bonus snow goose):
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Last day of the season 4 mallards, 3 widgeon, 3 honkers (I do not kill many mallards, and honkers are a rare treat for me):
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That last picture is not in the grasslands, and is in fact where I did a considerable amount of my turkey hunting this past season... Hunted that pond for ducks on 2 other occasions without firing a shell... Third time was a charm.