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bnow0707
Joined: 25 Aug 2003
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Location: Alabama
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:03 pm Post subject: "Dam" good time!! |
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I took off the the Tallapoosa River on monday and floated about five miles. We jumped about 20 wood ducks and I took one drake wood duck. About 1/3 of the way through the float a big ol' beaver came swimming up the side of the bank so, seeing as how he was eatin up a bunch of trees I let him have it. I had to shoot 5 times with a 12ga to get him( 3 times with number 4's and 2 times with my buddies gun shooting number 3's) Anyways we took him to the taxidermists and weighed him in at 44lbs. I skinned him last night and have the plet drying. So all in all it wasn't bad day to hunt
I'll post pic a soon as I can. |
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Serious Hunter
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Location: Idaho
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Gulp ... 44 lb sounds huge. |
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bnow0707
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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| It was huge. It's body alone, no head, legs, or tail was about as big as a large daypack or bookbag. |
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ChesterGolf
Joined: 17 Aug 2002
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Location: Nova Scotia
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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| I got one about 10 years ago around that weight and was 2 miles back in the woods. 44lbs dead weight feels like 300 by the time you get out. |
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Serious Hunter
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Location: Idaho
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:25 am Post subject: |
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| Three wood duck drakes is a cool way to start your duck hunting odyssey. I'm not sure what category the beaver falls under. Float / jump shooting is a good way to start. Decoy shooting is fun, but can also be extremely boring if nothin' is flying. There is also potentially significant investment in calls, decoys, etc. In earlier years most of my hunting was decoying / calling - and we had a `blast'. The spots I hunted this year didn't really present themselves with good decoy situations (at least during the times I could hunt), so I adapted to `spot and stalk' methods. It's been a lot of fun. |
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bnow0707
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Location: Alabama
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Finally got the pic shrunk. He was kinda flat after ridning in the boat for three hours then in the truck for another hour. |
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Serious Hunter
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Location: Idaho
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Cool ! |
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Serious Hunter
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Location: Idaho
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| Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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... well, it's over. Our waterfowl season ended 17 minutes ago. In the last minutes of season I went out to a couple spots that have been good off and on through the season. I was sloppy and noisy on approach to the first spot, and not paying good attention - a pair mallards clued in to my approach - swam out to where they could look - and I was busted about 80 yards out. Argh. I had two more spots to check in the time of one - and the one I picked was void of quacks. In retro - seeing it was my last time out - I should have taken the first spot slower, obviously. It leaves me bitter sweet. Bitter that the last evening ended empty ... sweet, though, thinking of other times when I scored. But also reminded that no wild creature is a slam dunk to get into the freezer.
Now withdrawal will start ... |
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bnow0707
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Location: Alabama
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| Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Tell me bout those withdrawls!! I've started running with a friend out at a local park and there are mallards everywhere, even a occasional wooduck pair or two. It's hard not to set up a blind right alongside the runnning track. Still hittin' the deer woods found likely late season spot but no deer yet. Still got 9 duck days left and 11 deer days. |
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Serious Hunter
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Location: Idaho
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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| To assuage the withdrawals we started climbing-hiking today - in prep of fall hunts in nasty terrain (hopefully some bighorn sheep hunts). Saw about 50 deer. Also saw three mallards probably poached from the road and shooter too lazy to go thru fence and wade into 4 in. deep water to retrieve them. Sick. |
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bnow0707
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Location: Alabama
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| Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 9:18 am Post subject: |
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| Well I got a deer Saturday the 21st so I should get some more duck huntin' in before season ends. I post the story and pics in the whitetail forum. |
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Serious Hunter
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Location: Idaho
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| Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 10:22 am Post subject: |
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| Congrats!!! :thumbsup1: |
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Serious Hunter
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Location: Idaho
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| Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:02 am Post subject: |
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On withdrawal ...
Before the season actually ends - withdrawal is more imagined - essentially pre-felt. Once season truly ends and you're into it a few days, or weeks - the withdrawal is REAL.
But the days are slowly getting longer - in promise of the seasons ahead. |
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hunter777
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| Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Do you guy's in Idaho have turkeys to hunt? Spring bear is just around the corner too! :thumbsup1: |
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Serious Hunter
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Location: Idaho
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| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:14 am Post subject: |
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| Twenty or thirty years ago to my recollection there were essentially zilch turkeys in the state ... now there are oodles. Turkey hunting (spring especially) has become a big deal. I see them from time to time hunting or biking - but have not hunted them myself. In some places they are a pest, and there are even predation turkey hunts. |
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