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Skack
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Refuge Gang Hunt 2003 hunt pics plus......

Folks.....had an absolute awesome two days of goose hunting with Bay Prairie Outfitters on the Refuge Gang Hunt 2003...

It was a pleasure putting a lot of new faces to names......There are too many to list here but we had a great Texas turnout. The boys from Mississippi, Oklahoma, Alabama and Pennsylvania definitely made the weeknd interesting. Almost forgot.....we also got to meet the infamous Duck Lorange who came all the way from Iceland to hunt again.

As Coastal Ducks said in a previous thread we had some unbelievable wing shooting. I have never seen so many geese in all my life. The first day brought wave after wave of large numbers of geese including a tornado of thousands directly over our heads. I wish I had my camera at that point but I didn't want to screw anything up by taking pics. No words can describe the amount of geese we had above us and drop in our spread in that instance. It literally felt like we were in a dome of geese. Saturday was a different story with the birds coming in consistent groups of 1-5 with a fewer big groups all morning long.

Our guide Mark was top notch and a hard working dude for sure. We were lucky enough to get him in the same field both days . Friday the field was dry as a bone and easy setting up. Saturday was a water-logged mess as you will see in the pics.


This pic is a dinner Thursday evening after we arrived. I can't remember the name of the restaurant but it was some good food except for the golf ball hard hush puppies.

Starting on the left and working back is: jpac (OK), Quackinator (TX), waterrat (OK), Half Breed, txduckcaller, limbshot (OK), primeduck, Mudmann (OK), duckhunt 4 (MS), MSDuckmen (MS), Stretch, Gmann (nice face) and Auto. Side table on right is duckhunt_4 (MS) and MBDux.

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Day 1 .....65 birds......Texas Grand Slam.........snows, specks, blues, Ross and canadas.

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Day 1 hunting party..65 birds...l to r Matt, Oxbow, Glake's buddy Jay, Duck Lorange, the infamous Avian Quest, Glake and Skack.

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Duck Lorange and an eagle head blue he shot and is mounting.

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A chitload of geese rising to come land in our spread.

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Here they come again

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Texas Grand Slam

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Another Big group working it's way in.

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Glake taking a breather during one of the few lulls.....

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Jay, Matt, Avian Quest (still covered up), Oxbow taking a break while Duck Lorange was trying to get the peecoy working.

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Our guide Mark and the owner of Bay Prairie Mike Ladneir with our day 1 take.

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Matt and a slam

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Day 2 whacking......total change from Friday...rainy, wet and mud. The geese sat early but then started coming up in constant groups of 1-10 birds......slow and true.

Matt, Jay, Glake, and I had Gmann, waterrat, jpac and the PA boys, (djbowman, haus, doerner, and northup), join us........

Great hunt...68 birds with some real "in your face" shots.

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Day 2 bird pic

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AWESOME!!!

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Forgot to mention that Haus took a banded Ross, MSDuckmen shot a double banded Ross and jpac shot a banded redhead.

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nice carnage

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Great pics fellas, but I have a couple questions....

Why the waders in the field on the first day? To keep warm, or was the ground wet?

And did y'all shoot all the black bars off those specklebellies?

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Why the waders in the field on the first day? To keep warm, or was the ground wet?


The forecast was for rain but it never showed....most people didn't have waterproof pants. I chose to bring mine out there and put them on if needed. needless to say it was a very comfortable hunt with no waders on.



quote:
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And did y'all shoot all the black bars off those specklebellies?


All specks we saw and shot were juvies......I would have mounted a barred mature speck or an eagle headed blue if given the chance. Duck Lorange dumped the only eagle head worth mounting, but I was surely happy for him.

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Forgive my typing and misspellings fellas...I'm working on 22 hours without sleep.

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