Posted By:
rmarci
Guest
01-18-2007 21:37
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headed out this a.m. with one thing in mind…..ducks. well after one heck of a long wasted trip we found some birds on the way home. 3 guys 18 mixed ducks and 1 honker. i am beat.
Posted By:
NMDuckaholic
Guest
South 01-18-2007 15:22
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
Yes sir… we had a blast this past week! DB, congrats on your banded Pin tail….:-) we got a lil bling of our own this week! season is coming to an end soon .. 🙁 Hope everyone get’s to get out!!!
NMDuckaholic
Posted By:
seeker28
Guest
The River 01-17-2007 22:10
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Headed out again with the posse +1. Slow day today. Nickel and dimed our way to 23 ducks and 3 honkers. Honkers came in on a string to calling. Nice sized flock. Not many Mallards moving or Widgeon. Shot a bunch of grey ducks, teal, some Pinnies, a couple Mallards and a drake Merg.
Another good time and the dog is worn out. Hope this storm coming doesn’t move out a bunch of birds.
Call’em, Kill’em, Let the Dog Get’em.
Posted By:
Greenhound
Web Member
01-16-2007 18:58
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MLK day I tried my luck at some banded canadas this weekend but to no avail. Did a morning hunt on one of my fields. The canadas definitely showed up but I wasn’t where they wanted to be. I only had out two dozen shells, had about 40-50 birds fly over me about 60 yds. up in several different groups. First group I let pass, thinking they would hook around and land into the wind–they didn’t even give me a second look. Second group same scenario, but I figurd out their pattern so I shot and took one out. Next group, I feathered one. And that was it. I waited until about 0800 and split for the afternoon to go see what field they were sitting on.
I also checked on one of my blinds that I haven’t hunted since opening day and the road in and the blind itself have been heavily used and abused. That blind produced a lot of ducks and cranes the four years that I hunted it. But word got out and the slobs showed up. It truly amazes me the lack of care some hunters show. The blind was trashed, I counted about 100 spent hulls, the fence was cut, and the frame on the blind was destroyed. But there is nothing I can do. Sucks. And hunters wonder why other hunters are so tight lipped about their spots. I’ve been a member of this website since 1999 and actively since 2002. I never post where I hunt.
I found the canadas, a few thousand were right out in the middle of a barley field about 5 miles south of where I was hunting. I know the farmer and he doesn’t let anyone else hunt his fields. He lets the birds pile up then a firing line of about 10-15 guys go out and unload. In the meantime no one else gets a shot at the birds on adjacent fields because he does not hunt them on a consistent basis. Nice game plan, real considerate:(
Anyway checked out my woodie hole and it’s holding a lot of squealers and mallards. I plan to get back over there this weekend. No one hunts this spot so it should be great!
Finished the day with another canada back on my field. The birds just were not interested in this usually consistent field.
DB glad to hear about your banded pintail. That is one I’m waiting on. Dbercier I’m also waiting to shoot a banded crane! Congrats.
Know Your Birds–Greenhound
Posted By:
rmarci
Guest
01-16-2007 17:28
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Duckbag, sounds like a nice time. i’m headed that way on thursday, so i’ll let you know if the birds are back around. that blue phase ross is considered by the smithsonian to be 1 in 1,000,000. they took a buddy of mines 2 years ago and actually paid to have it mounted just to get the carcas for study purposes. congrats to all on the recent bling and ………’holic and dq, your welcome 😉
Posted By:
duckbag
Web Member
all over 01-16-2007 15:59
– – 0-10 Degrees – Ice
FRI and SAT, field goose hunting at our spot out East. 12 honkers, 7 ross’s, and 7 mallards. My buddy shot a mature blue-phase ross on FRI, after it had been cleaned we find out that this is a very rare bird?
I hunted SUN and MON down south at the lake and it’s still all teal and pintails with a few mallards around. Shot my first banded pintail ever and it had nasty “rice breast”
Had a great hunt on Sunday with Desert Drake and Chile at there private club. One of these days I’m gonna have a private club!!!
Congrats to the honker virgins! and bling to go with it??? Your all hooked forever!
I believe this weather has pushed out some of our fowl. Most of our geese left on Fri afternoon. We only saw a 1/4 of them on Sat and the rancher called me today and told me there are none there right now. Hopefully it’s only a few day thing and they’ll come back.
Sampsom, I never said anything about giving out the location of your SPOT. I just said this state site was dragging ass, with only a few of us posting. It’s looks like it’s on the road to recovery right now. There are a bunch of mallards somewhere in our state and we now have 12 days to find them.
SHOOT EM IN THE FACE#!!!
Posted By:
John-Prentice
Field Editor
New Mexico 01-16-2007 12:50
Arctic Blast – Froze Out
Ditto! rmarci hit it on the head. I was one of the first New Mexico Field Editors. I faithfully posted places to hunt ducks and the next time I went out there would be a ton of guys taking over that place. I innocently took a guy I considered a close friend to one of my favorite spots and the next weekend he couldn’t hunt with me. So when I arrived at the spot,there he was with 4 of his buddies. That ended that friendship in a hurry. Most guys are tight lipped for that very reason. If you have a good spot,better not divulge it or kiss it goodbye. Went out yesterday. Any self-respecting quacker was holed up and trying to stay warm.
Posted By:
dbercier
Guest
01-16-2007 10:25
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Just got back from Mexico on Friday and was successful on my Coues deer hunt. Turned around and went out on Saturday with all my buddies for our Sandhill Crane hunt and ended up with a banded Crane. So far this year is starting out good. Lets just hope it stays this way.
Posted By:
seeker28
Guest
The River 01-15-2007 23:19
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – 0-10 Degrees – Open Water
The final assault of the year has begun. With 2 weeks left in the season, the ‘Holic, DQ and I struck out to the 1 Hole. Now the 1 Hole is the preferred hole–errr—for the late season.(Get ur minds out of the gutter gentlemen.) With the cold air come more ducks.
Temp gage on the truck was at 9 degrees as we assembled the gear. Waders had to go in the back of the truck, so we started off chilled right away. Planned on an early arrival with the holiday, but could have slept in for another hour. Everything set up and brushed up, including 2 video cameras. The dog has a gastro problem that burns DQ’s nose. The early blind banter starts as the darkness begins to fade.
LST and here come the honkers. Two dozen in a string. We hurry to switch from steel to tungsten. I fumble and drop my shells on the ice at my feet. Just as I get them tubed and lock the breach they are on us. The ‘Holic and DQ open up on a species they have never harvested. Each folds a Canada with salvo’s of $2 shells. Me, I get nothing but air and I am out 4 bucks. The dog makes quick work of the first bird and I hand it to the ‘Holic. BANDED!!! The second bird comes to DQ’s hand–BANDED!!! The boys pop their cherry on banded honkers. The duck gods ARE crazy. Half a dozen tungsten loads-$12—capturing DQ and the ‘Holic whoopin’ it up on video–priceless.
Over the next few hours we move on to whacking ducks–Teal, Mallards, Widgeon, Pintail and Gadwall make up the bag. No huge flights but the tempo keeps us on our toes. DQ makes another investment and collects another honker. Me, I’m out another $8. I put the wad through a Greenwings cranium today–just couldn’t do jack on a big, fat, and slow goose! Can you say CHOKE! I shot geese today like Tony Romo handles snaps.
Anyhow, we ended the day with 18 quackers, 3 honkers and a new sickness for DQ and the ‘Holic. Honker Fever.
‘Fowling is good right now.
Call’em, Kill’em, Let the Dog Get’em.
Posted By:
rmarci
Guest
01-15-2007 22:09
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samson, if you are shootin your limits all the time, why do you need help? it has nothing to do with being in a “click” it has to do with the extra hundred plus people that lurk here for spots to kill stuff. most people will not post public spots on a public forum. it’s nothing personal. just the cold hard truth that good spots are hard to come bye. especially anything within that hour and a half circle of albucrackie.
on a side note, been out the last few days to mixed results. does anyone else feel we might have had too much weather?
