A Slow DE Morning (pics)

[DropEmInDE]

Had a Slow one this morning but none the less we had fun, and got some bird to boot lol..2Canadians, 1 Mallard Drake, and One Bufflehead Drake...heres a couple pics from the hunt....hope you all enjoy as much as i did.....

Sunrise in the boat......lookin over the Dekes...
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nother one caught some grass in it..
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r223/spinitfast/HPIM0453.jpg
nother morning from my boys cam
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r223/spinitfast/morning2.jpg
and another....
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r223/spinitfast/mornin1.jpg
Shadow On Retrieve 4 the Bufflehead...
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r223/spinitfast/ShadowBuffl.jpg
Shadow on her way back...
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r223/spinitfast/shadowbuffle2.jpgMy Partner in Crime Chris with his Bufflehead Drake...
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The Buffle Up Close....( that little red spot is the only place he got hit, right in the Temple lol....)
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r223/spinitfast/Bufflehead-1.jpg
And Last But Not Least the Hero Shot...( Left ME, Right Chris )
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r223/spinitfast/Hero1.jpg

[wpritchett]

Where were you? Nice pics.

[HRK]

DAMN BRO
yer finally killin somethin !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! great job justin!

[DropEmInDE]

Woodland Beach Delaware, secret location lol

[wpritchett]

headed to bombay tomorrow, hopin we get lucky. none the less, sue=re beats work.

[DropEmInDE]

HELLLLLLLLLLLLLZ yeah lol......thats what i did today took a vacation day, my boy Charlie will be in Bombay tomorrow....i wanna go but i gotta werk :: pouts :: :(

[wpritchett]

I think you sound a little ill to me. :lol: must have gooseititis. were gonna give it a try, first time on public this year. i will probaly over sleep the lottery :shock:

[DropEmInDE]

HAHA, yeah, i hate that crap, but we got picked first this morning it was awesome, but hey, Question for Everyone, my boy want to get that bufflehead mounted, what should he do to make sure its ok till it goes to the Tax... and what are some good possitions to really show off that awesomely colored head .....

[wpritchett]

preening.

[Gooseblitz]

Dude if you keep shooting Canadians and braggin about it online our neighbors to the north are going to get pissed!
now if you are shooting canadas or Canada Geese then you should be OK :D

[deerslayer]

Good Job, nice looking birds! I have yet to kill a bird this season but hopefully come this saturday that will change! Looking like a nice light rain all day saturday WOOOHOOO cant wait!!!

[Gary Crafton]

Nice pics I lost you on your instant message, don't know if you got booted off or what, Keep killing , but remember we need a few to get thru , so we have something to shoot at farther down south here.

[Hecht08]

you should enter those in the free call contest, those are some awesome sunrise pics!

[njhonker]

wish I could see the pics....lol

my web blocker at work is working overtime.... :cry:

[mlgorecki]

what should he do to make sure its ok till it goes to the Tax... and what are some good possitions to really show off that awesomely colored head .....

Dry it off as best as you can, then roll the bird into a plastic garbage bag and place it in the freezer. Any type pf paper product will cause the eyes to dry out. If, at the end of the season, you still want to do the mount, the bird will be fine. That's what my taxidermist told me to do.

As for accentuating the head, I would mount it sitting on a piece of driftwood. Good luck.

[des24391]

Myself and two friends have a pit leased off of Big Woods Rd, just E of Smyrna Leipsic Rd, on the Snow Farm. We had a decent first Season; we shot about 25 Canadas and like 6 Snows. The second season has been somewhat of a bust, however. We've only killed like 6 since Dec 14th. If there are any other DE hunters on here, how has your hunting season gone in relation to Canadians? Secondly, is it just the warm weather that has been affecting the hunt, or are the bird numbers just way down? We've even tried hunting in the evening and in some pretty nasty weather, and the results just aren't there!

I would also like to say that myself and my two friends call with foiles migrators brand for the most part and are very happy with the results.

[DropEmInDE]

Its a combination of both, i think its the weather, i was at Cedar Swamp this morning Sweating in the drizzle, saw prolly 150,00 snows, and maybe 5 small groups of canadians, they just arent here....hey where you at in M-town, maybe we could hook up and do some callin or get out and shoot something ....lemme know....

[wpritchett]

if you're on one of Snow's farms and you are not killin birds, then nobody is. i think the weather has screwed things up royaly. just think how many birds were here last year and how many are here now. no where near the amount of birds and the ones that are here are not as stupid=== a not so good season. :cry:

[DropEmInDE]

Well the snows are here in HUGE #rs...but the canadians are few and faw between, hunted all morning this and only saw maybe 5 small groups, and only had three of them work the spread...

[des24391]

Yeh, we were out this morning too. Snows started Flying as usual, thousands just too high to shoot. We thought the morning was gonna turn out right with the cloud cover and drizzle, but only shot 1 Canada at 11'ish. What we've been noticing is that the small amount of birds we've been seeing, probably 300 today, are already under a lot of pressure and have been heading over us just out of range. Then they drop in the fields behind us not being hunted in; and once they started flooding a field, the other birds seem to have radar and follow. We hunt over winter wheat and when I left I noticed about 100 or so sitting in corn just West of us. We were out yesterday in the nasty stuff as well. We changed up to hunt evenings and set up at 1 and stayed till 4:40. I bet we saw like 50 all afternoon. We aren't giving up though and are praying for cold weather to get here!

[DropEmInDE]

Yeah same situation this morning watched the few i did see fly to a field full of them right behind me where you couldnt hunt, but i did get a couple small groups to werk, that had come from another field where they were skybusted at.....i unno i thought that front that came in was a cold front and i was so hype about going out, if i would have known it was a warm front i wouldnt have put on 4 layer this morning, i was sweating bullets packing everything in, made like 3 trips to the car, the Drizzle was my only relief...kinda glad too tho cause i had my pup with me, and there was 3 inches of water in the bottom of the pit, so she was wet early, i was worried about her being cold till i seen the steam comming off of her, and she was just sitting there, i wish i coulda gotten a pic of that i was crackin up...

[Max4hdmatt]

man guess u guys need to do something. im from delaware and hunt in Northeast and there is literally thousands of birds there. we didnt go hunting saturday morning and there was over 1000 brids in our field in front of both of our blinds. we kill hundreds of birds every year from the same 2 blinds. of course our 2 fields are where they feed at every year. same field when the migrators come down.

Matt