Posted By:
iluvlabs
Guest
Wayne, OK 12-18-2009 09:38
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Me and a buddy made a quick hunt before work today. Lots of birds in right before LST. After we got them up, several came back. We ended up with 5 gadwalls, 2 widgeon and 1 lost drake pintail!! First ever pintail I have ever shot. Birds shut it down pretty quick but that was probably due to not very many hunters out this morning to keep them moving.
Posted By:
Aaron(Mingo)Milligan
Field Editor
12-17-2009 19:05
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Got second hand invite to go with a group SW of Norman today. We hit a watershed that was covered with geese and ducks. We waited til most had left and then set up. Couldn’t get the geese in, but ended up just a few birds shy of 6 limits of Mallards. Man, I wish I knew why the Mallards are hanging out just west of where we hunt. Shot more today than we have all season.
Posted By:
dweilert
Guest
N 12-17-2009 08:25
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Shot bands today! if you have open water, you have ducks!!!
Posted By:
dweilert
Guest
NE 12-15-2009 14:46
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went out with 3 buddies today, set up on some small water that the wind kept open. We were done in a matter of a few minutes. It was amazing! Mallards, Greys, and 2 woods. Great morn. Put the spinners out for the first time in a long time, they worked pretty good!
Posted By:
Aaron(Mingo)Milligan
Field Editor
Garvin Co. 12-13-2009 20:11
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – 40-45 Degrees
Funny how quickly things returned to normal. We had a big group in the decoys 10 minutes before LST, so we had high hopes. But it ended up being a morning like many others this year. All singles and pairs that would give one good pass or land just a little outside the decoys. The wind did shift a little which put it quartering toward us and that didn’t help. We ended up with 4 Gadwall and 1 Mallard.
Posted By:
dweilert
Guest
n 12-13-2009 17:26
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Hunted big water on saturday, killed 9 all kinds, enough of the smaller holes had opened up to push the birds around to them. Upon scouting the place earlier they were all on the big water. Sunday found us in a bean field on public land, we trudged a million miles packing a huge ground rig and then slugging through 150 yards of ankle deep mud. MAN the ducks were there. we set up and 10 minutes before LST we landed at least 200 and had 2500 more setting in. 5 minutes before the morons that walked 10 feet from their truck and hunted the edges started shooting just to keep them from landing on us. At first I thought they did not know we were out in the middle, but soon we opened up and told them for sure, of course, this made no difference to the losers as they kept right on all morning everytime we had birds cupped and gliding they would shoot and pick them up. We ended up with 13 mallards but would have had 25 had we not had to contend with the morons. Oh how I love hunting public!!! Birds are here and now its summertime again so maybe they will stay a bit.
Posted By:
iluvlabs
Guest
Wayne,OK 12-13-2009 11:21
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12/12 We had good numbers early, the birds seemed to want to get down, but the ice had them a little hesitant. Ended up with 5 between 3 of us, but that is only because of very poor shooting.
12/13 Not as many birds and Sat due to the heavy fog but we made the shots count today and ended up with 5 birds.
I know that I was seeing a lot of birds early in the week, but I think once we got froze up for those couple of days we lost a bunch of birds.
Posted By:
Aaron(Mingo)Milligan
Field Editor
McClain Co. 12-12-2009 14:54
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
Well, we found a little patch of open water in a large pond holding ducks yesterday, and today they showed up in good numbers. We took four limits of mostly Gadwall and GWT and were done by 9 am. Most of the small ponds are still frozen, but it looks like the ducks are here.
Posted By:
Aaron(Mingo)Milligan
Field Editor
12-09-2009 19:11
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Been too tied up at work this week to notice. I just hope all the ponds are not frozen this weekend!
Posted By:
dweilert
Guest
12-09-2009 08:59
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I sure hope these 10 degree days don’t push em too hard, right now I am loaded in all docking stations!
