The semester is just started; spend more time after school during the week; then you have the whole weekend. that's what I dogotta wait till schools over lol. I've done all my readings and papers so that I can hunt on the President Day weekend. (It might be the last one until summer
Originally Posted by Atwater
Damn Clyde...welcome to JHO!
That Northern Pike in my avitar was caught at Minto Flats. Very cool to see a banded Shoveler from there. We let that shoveler pass...I was taught never to shoot a shot gun at metal, as it might riccoche back atcha'... :)
I just had some luck with the bands this year. I only have 3 duck bands and 1 goose band 1 goose collar. Notice that bird was banded incorrectly. Look how tight the band appears on the ducks leg. It is a size 5 band which is fine if it would have been a hen. (last digit in pre-fix is band size)
come on up. I don't have many people to hunt with and usually go by myself a lot.
You shouldn't be that impressed by the photos because I didn't put pictures up of all the times I got skunked.
Wow congrads on a good season and thanks for sharing your pics
Now i now why there was not many birds down here this year
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We never got a good push of birds. The divers never really showed up for me. I'm a diver hunter at heart and will shoot a scaup any day over mallard I only hunted scoter twice and they were poor hunts the scaup hunting wasn't good until January. I don't think I killed a lesser scaup at all this year. The ringer were not like they usually are the the golden eye never really came through for me either.
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I've never shot a banded bird. That's interesting about the wrong band, but the ducks at Minto have mostly eclipse pinfeathered plumage. Good to see some pics, you've been a busy man.I just had some luck with the bands this year. I only have 3 duck bands and 1 goose band 1 goose collar. Notice that bird was banded incorrectly. Look how tight the band appears on the ducks leg. It is a size 5 band which is fine if it would have been a hen. (last digit in pre-fix is band size)
"Thank God they are not as intellegent as we who kill them, although they are more noble......and more able."
Earnest Hemingway, "The old man and the sea"
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have"-Thomas Jefferson
"I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth." Steve McQueen
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I thought that shoveler looked real good for how early in the year I shot him.
As far as bands go, I have only hunted for 8 years now I've probably only killed 1200 my regular hunting partner is probably good for 1200 and I've seen another3600 killed probably so that is 6000 dead birds and there has been my four bands and my buddy has one and my buddies kid got one last year.
1 in 1000 birds for us is banded.
I have spotted a double silver banded hen mallard last year and a double silver banded westerner this year. both were in 'no hunting' areas. better luck next time. I don't think they were money bands. people have told me that money bands are green or red.
I will see 50 or 60 goose neck collars but that is through a spotting scope. They never seem to be the ones we shoot. I shot my neck collar while duck hunting. It was just a lone flyer real low and she came over my boat and I was by myself and my young dog (pup at time) retrieved it and dropped it when he was coming up the ladder and the SOB dove on me. I wasn't real concerned and I sent my old dog after it. I didn't realize it had a colar on until my old dog brought it in. I was so excited then I saw the leg band. I didn't know they put leg band and neck collar on same bird.
Purt near but not plumb
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He looked great Clyde. He was banded in July of 09, too young to fly, according to the bander. Just saying, hard to sex. Nice work on the divers, I love the seaducks.I thought that shoveler looked real good for how early in the year I shot him.
"Thank God they are not as intellegent as we who kill them, although they are more noble......and more able."
Earnest Hemingway, "The old man and the sea"
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have"-Thomas Jefferson
"I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth." Steve McQueen
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I do miss hunting the wet side. Welcome to JHO!! Would that sand bar be in and around Nehalem Bay? For those of you not in his neck of the woods, that boat is very necessary for hunting a lot of where he goes. Big water, big tides, big chop, big danger in some places. Bit , oh man, the gunning can be, well, you seen the pics.
Judge Gideon J. Tucker, wrote in a 1866 ruling that "No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."
No not nehalem. nehalem is a ghost yard for birds, they are all in Tillamook. The sand bar is in the columbia near aldrige point ramp.
and if you meant the other pic that one is bandon dunes. (should have brought some clubs......) The bad thing about bandon is that we were stuck in a "no hunting" zone. hahaha wouldn't have mattered anyway....
Ok, got you know. Never hunted further north than Sand Lake myself. Spent a LOT of time in Siletz Bay. Great place to go if you ever want to chat with the area warden or sheriff deputy. The deputy is a waterfowler, big guy with a beard. The one warden I met and got to know well before he retired was an avid hunter.
That craft of yours ever get down to Siltcoos or the Siuslaw or even on Takenitch, aka Mergie Capitol of the Pacific Flyway? The lakes are alwatys a treat in Nov when the coho season is going.
Judge Gideon J. Tucker, wrote in a 1866 ruling that "No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."
I haven't been to Tahkenitch but darn near lost the lower end (the jet) in Siltcoos. Siltcoos doesn't have many birds. It is hard to beat the lower columbia.
Very Nice!!!! Love you boat set-up. Looks like you have that place dialed in................nicely done!
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nice Eurasian Wigeon! Still waiting to get my first
Last edited by SporkMaster; 02-12-2012 at 09:39 PM.
Not mine. My buddy shot it. There were several of them that day or maybe the same one kept going back and forth....
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