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AvianQuest
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2003 Refuge Gang Hunt Results

Great time! Great Food! Great People!

350+ birds were taken including...

Snow Geese
Ross' Geese
White-fronted Geese
Richardson Canada Geese
Pintails
Redheads

Snow geese were shot as close as 5 yards and at one point they were swarming over us so close you could feel the breeze as they coasted close enough to knock down with your gun barrel...

More later, but here's a few early photos...





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Joe Dirt
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Who are the guys from left to right?

Joe

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daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayum fine hunt from the looks of it. Can't wait to hear all the stories.

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Looks great! Looking forward to see more pics!

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Great pics AQ. I can't wait to hear all the stories and lies....

Get 'em in close,
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Stretch
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Dang AQ, figured it would at least be tomorrow afore anyone posted pics....I hope we do that again last year...Was my first goose hunt and I got my first pintail , will put him on the wall...



and anything j-pac says will be a lie....









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Did you see Billy ???

Nice mess of SOB's

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Ok, back again for a bit...

The pictures I posted was from our group on the Friday hunt. We killed 65 and by agreement of all present, stopped at 9:00 AM to let the geese have it so we would hunt another group in the same field Saturday. As soon as we had the decoys picked up and were leaving the field, the geese started piling in.

I had a bad case of the Mega-Flu but unlike a lesser man, hunted anyway and was feeling better after the first hunt....not well, but better because it's hard to feel bad after a hunt like that.

Friday night the Heavens opened and 4" of rain and lots of lightning set in. By morning it had stopped and had started cooling off with a stiff north wind. Oxbow, Duck Lorange and myself headed out to Seadrift with 'tween_fly_ways and his son following for a bay hunt.



It was a rough run across Espiritu Santo Bay (Holy Spirit) and we had spitting rain and 30 knot cold north winds all morning. Despite what should have been great waterfowling conditions, the clouds of pintails that had been there Friday saw the heavy rain as signal to move inland to the rice fields. But we did have 8 beautiful pintail drakes come in and only inches from landing, we each popped ours and the guide took a 4th one. The longest sprig was a double 5". It was about at that point that I declared myself well. We also got a drake redhead. Meanwhile 'tween_fly_ways and his son got their two pintail drakes and a redhead as well.

Bay Prairie set us up with three guides and their "skinny water" Shoalwater boats even though we hunted in two parties. The 3rd guide set up at one of the other 32 blinds that they built in this public hunting area so that in case he started drawing a lot of birds, we could move to that blind with the decoys already set up. It's really a first class set up with the guides talking to each other by radio to give reports and they are all equipped with GPS so they can run through all the maze of islands and channels at night.

As for the food......typical great Bay Prairie food and they always cook a great variety and twice as much as the group can consume. Now the cook out Friday night was something else as well, with fried alligator, tamales, antelope, deer, all kinks of sausages, and on and on...

Unfortunately (fortunately?) the good folks at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service confiscated the whale and seal meat that Duck Lorange tried to bring us.

As for the 350+ bird body count, it would have been a lot higher if the Mississippi boys had the killing instinct going. They did slip off and kill some farm raised Chukar….but I’m not counting them.

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Originally posted by Joe Dirt

Who are the guys from left to right?




I'll let everyone guess except on the center picture...

LEFT...

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Center...


That's our guide on the left, Mark Biford. Then there's my good friend, World's Champion Goose Caller and owner of Bay Prairie, Mike Ladnier along with Mike's dog "Poncho".

Right...



Dang, should have left the hat on...


Duck Lorange was taking the pictures, but others have photos with him in the mix.

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First pic that's Skack, Matt and AQ's son, I think.

Second pic is Mark Biford,who was the guide, and Mike Ladnier.

Third pic is AQ and Glake on the right with a big ugly dude hovering over them.

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The guy in #3 without a Hat looks like he has the same hair style as ....... Bart Simpson ???

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Bands...

Haus - banded Ross' Goose

MSDuckmen - double banded Ross' Goose

jpac - banded Redhead

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Duck Lorange....

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Finally got to meet the infamous AQ What a great hunt...

Pics of Duck Lorange and the group......

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Here they come.........

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Suppose to be a picture of Duck Lorange with a Texas Grand Slam...however ti looks as if he has dropped the specklebelly. I have a picture of me with them and the speck is there. Oh well you get the drift.......

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Check out this picture of Gmann on Thursday night...

You should have seen his face at 3:30 AM Saturday....I would have taken his pricture, but I feared the flash would have killed him. But after another goose carnage hunt, his color was back.

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By the way, all the Refuge Gang members did a massive sweep of the area and never could locate Tony Dean's underground parking garage....

http://www.refugeforums.com/refuge/showthread.php?s=&threadid=133516

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