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Today We Were Pioneers

Ended up hunting a reservoir on the Ranch that was recently drawn down to make it more huntable. We were "volunteered" to be the guinea pigs and it paid off.

Ag, Thib, Drundie, and I hunted in two small patches of cattail grass surrounded by some groceries teeming with seeds. Wind was a factor as was cover but we managed to shoot 12, which I believe was top bird count for the day so I think we did ok. We should have had many more, but a combo of huntig 25 yards apart and trying to allow everyone a shot on numerous occasions ended up costing us a shot alltogher or shooting at inoportune times. We ended up firing 100 rounds between the 4 of us!!

Fun time though. A different hunt but fun!

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I can't wait to see pics after the front, you guys wont be wearing shorts and showing us those white legs.

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100 shots and you killed you some spoonies? dang

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Where are all yalls birds, I thought Halls Bayou was legendary? The so called spoony mecca of the Texas Coast.

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yea thats it, give um hell

I saw the two little pods of cat tails they hid behind, for them to shoot anything besides coots and camorants is pretty amazing in itself..

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Well AM, my group has shot 275 ducks so far this season, so I think we are doing ok...

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How many guys are in your group, I know Brad ain't contributing much. Also is that with or with teal season?

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That includes all ducks for this season. We are at 3.4 birds/hunter which includes teal season in that average. We shot 133 teal during teal season for a 3.3 birds/hunter average.

If we end up the season with 3.4 as the ratio we will have over 550 birds. We are sitting at about 3.8 hunters/hunt.

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and if you dont quite understand what ol' CD is saying...
check out his avatar

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so yall basically kill almost a 1/4 of your ducks during teal season(damn good teal season btw), I'm not trying to be a smart ass it just seems like in the past yall have had more birds.

Right now we've had 6 hunts out of our blind and have harvested 104 birds. 3 of which came straight from hollywood, grinning the whole way by

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Brent you couldnt wait till after the picture.Nice face

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Seeing as how we are only what 16 days into a 74 day season we could very well eclipse 550. I don't know about you dude, but anything over a 3bph average is pretty damn good.

But maybe my expectations are a little different. I guess maybe I trade half a bird per hunter for getting up at 4:30-4:45 and riding to my blind on an atv without fear of someone setting up on top of me or cutting me off... who knows.

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Drundel:

Are those the jamas with little footsies?

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that lodge of yalls is worth at least 1 bph, yeah even though our area is private we still have guys come in, it's fun though calling the GW and then an hour later watching him come cruise up with "The Danger Zone" blaring and seeing the glare off is aviators jj, our GW is a good guy, our old one Justin wasn't worth a coots ass.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Waxed Canvas
Drundel:

Are those the jamas with little footsies?

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I was wondering about those pants. You wont be wearing shorts up here in the morning.


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Yeah...

Notice the sign? That's one of those DU Projects for "Pretty Boys". Bet the parking lot was full of pink Vulva's....er Volvos?

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They all had a glass of the DU innaugural Cabernet upon repairing to the camp men's club for cigars after the day's quarry had been left in the capable hands of " Jones ", head duck plucker.

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More like we raised our cups of re-warmed Cafe Du Monde as we ate breakfast tacos and tamales from Molly the tamale lady. We then breasted our ducks on the tailgate of my truck as the cats circled the wagons waiting for a morsel of duck guts...

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