Posted By:
Miamonkey
Guest
all over 01-26-2007 15:20
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I agree with Hunterox, in regards to more of you who read this site and never post. In the past this site was a great tool to find out what others are doing and where birds were moving in and out of. This year has benn a banner year for me, it would be nice to know how everyone else is doing.
Posted By:
hunterox
Guest
Northern Nevada 01-21-2007 11:42
– – 35-40 Degrees
Ice, Ice and more Ice, but the birds are still around…
Two of us shot 14 GWT in a couple of hours. The shooting was fast and challenging at the same time. We had a photographer friend of ours with us, so we hope he got some great action shots. Maybe next week, he’ll be using a gun? We had a great time!
Its too bad that more of you that read this site do not post!
Feetdown!
Posted By:
hunterox
Guest
Mason Valley 01-14-2007 20:13
Arctic Blast – 0-10 Degrees – Ice
Extremely cold! Cold enough that I had ice on my eyelashes! We drew the highest number in the draw and got an eastern field. Geese got up to the West and North. We didn’t fire our guns until 3PM, pair of mallards. About 3:30 1 honk. Around 4PM 1 drake mallard and that was it! We did have a good time, but it was freezing!
Sure would be nice if someone else was posting or hunting. Is anyone else hunting?
Feetdown!
It is our responsibility to clean up after ourselves. Please make sure you are doing your part and not littering. The blind we were in had a lot of garbage in it. This has been a disturbing trend in my travels this year to different states for hunting. Hunting is a privilege. Let’s not give any group a reason; especially one we can really control (cleanliness/garbage) to speak out against hunters. Show some respect to God’s great outdoors!
Out!
Posted By:
hunterox
Guest
Stillwater 1/6/07 01-08-2007 10:03
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Hunted the east side of Stillwater on Saturday, 1/6/07. There were a few birds out and quite a few swans out on the flats, but not much moving in my direction. More shooting towards the middle. Scratched out one lone drake spoonie.
There was ice here and there, but it had thawed quite a bit from last week. The warm weather Wednesday and Thursday of last week reduced the amount of ice present. There were still many places that appeared to be locked up with ice, but there was a lot more open water than last week.
Feeddown!
Posted By:
hunterox
Guest
Stillwater 12-23-2006 13:57
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Cool temps. after the light snow…Very limited open water available…And what was open was out in the middle of the ponds. Tough hunting and no shots fired!
Merry Christmas!
God Bless you all and your families!
JESUS IS THE REASON WE CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS!!
Jeremy
Posted By:
hunterox
Guest
Carson Lake 12-11-2006 11:25
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 40-45 Degrees
I scouted Jessup and Toulon and both seemed to be frozen solid where I was. I scouted the SW and N parts of Jessup and did find some open water and a few ducks, honkers, and Swans, but they were a long distance off. Toulon, I looked at the NW, W, and S parts and they were frozen.
So it was on to Carson Lake. I paid my fee and went out to what my dad and I call the death march! Got set up at around 1pm with a stiff south wind. Ended with 2 drake spoons, 1 beautiful bull sprig, and 1 drake widgeon. I should’ve had a limit, there were plenty of opportunities. It was a great hunt, because I don’t measure hunts by numbers of birds!
Feetdown!
Posted By:
Norm-Saake
Web Member
Carson Lake 12-06-2006 19:17
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
I had a great shoot yesterday in the ice. It took me about an hour and a half to break ice and get my boat out. Shot a limit in 1 1/2 hours and then took 45 minutes + to get back to the truck. Didn’t get set up until almost 2 and finished just before 3:30. Lots of ice and not much open water now.
My 28 ga. 1100 has been in the shop since before the season began, so I have been shooting my Ithaca side by side 12 ga. with 28 ga. Chambermates. I didn’t think I’d ever get to use this gun again, but it has worked great and I have killed all my ducks and swans with it this year. I may not be in any hurry to go back to the 1100 when and if it gets fixed. This is the tenth year that I have been shooting the 28 ga. using about a 1/2 oz. of 7’s or 8’s and have been extremely satified with the results. So far I have shot 11 swans with this load and never lost a single bird. Most of my ducks are stone dead and fall within 30 yards. On days were the birds don’t want to work, I have taken them at over 45 yards without any problems. I have the reloading information if anyone is interested in trying it out.
Posted By:
hunterox
Guest
NONE 12-05-2006 12:43
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
shpfvr4,
I tried to PM you and it said this was restricted. Send me an email to hunterox12@yahoo.com with Washoe Lake as the subject.
Hunterx
Posted By:
Norm-Saake
Web Member
Stillwater NWR 12-05-2006 12:10
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
What a change from last week in the weather. This week I had some Pacific Flyway friends down from Oregon for a swan hunt. For three of the four, it was their first swans harvested. The first day out we was the first dfay the ice came in and we managed to take five swans. That day we probably had at least eight flocks of swans into the decoys. On the second day, the ice became thicker and that day we only had two flocks of swans and no duck come in. We did manage to take three birds that day before closing time. On the last day we had fair duck shooting and had one single swan ccome in which finshed out limits of nine birds and had a pretty good duck shoot that day.
The ice appears to be building at about 1/4″ per day, and it is getting hard to get my long-shaft boat out, even though it is armour plated. Guess next year I need to get the airboat ready for the ice.
Swan hunting is expected to be pretty tough until we get some relief from the ice. So far my goups have taken 13 swans this season over the decoys.
Posted By:
Norm-Saake
Web Member
Stillwater NWR 12-05-2006 12:00
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
On the week of NOvemeber the 20th, I took some of my old Pacific Flyway friends out for some swan hunts. The weather was pretty warm, but the swan cooperated well and we managed to take four swans that week. Duck hunting where we were at was slow byu we did manage to take a few birds. The birds were responding well to the decoys and we had lots of fun. Good numbers of birds were all over the area that week.
