Election day duck hunt with none other than the Edjukateer!  He taught me about all I know about shooting at ducks.  I hope he and I have enough shells for todays excursion.

The low last night was 27, so we will be enjoying some ice and my hope is that the weather will warm enough to give us some open water.  A little breeze would also help the situation.  But whatever we get will be a good day on the marsh.

A few mallards and a pintail or two would also be a nice thing to enjoy.

More to follow.

Bears Butt

Nov. 2011

We managed to get away from the house about 10:30 or 10:45 a.m. who cares, we got away.  Hit the duck club shortly after that and made the long ride out on the 4 wheeler.  Then we had to walk the rest of the way.  For two old guys that is quite a chore.

Ducks were winging all around as we set out the large decoy spread of duck and goose decoys.  One can never have enough decoys and today, being a blue bird day we figured we would need all the help we could get.

I asked Edjukateer about the number of goose decoys out and he said that was plenty.  So that is how many we put out.

The shooting started really fast with loads of birds coming in from every direction.  Pretty soon my limit was laying behind us and Edjukateer still had a few to go.  I think I popped my limit with 10 shells.  Anyway, I had lots of shells left in case the two boxes Edjuakeer brought wasn’t enough.

I was beginning to think that is was going to start raining on us pretty soon as Edjukateer really punched a lot of holes in the sky.  Some of the ducks he shot at were so close the gun barrel went passed them as they flew by and still he shot.  It was a very “edjukating” day.  Not just for the birds but for me as well.

Finally a very large duck came winging in…a beautiful drake mallard and with one shot, mind you, Edjukateer added it to his limit!  Nice bird!

As time went on, he did something to his gun, so that he could borrow mine and try to finish off his limit.  Using up nearly all of my full box of shells, he finally called it quits.  Not because he ran out of shells, but he did run out of time.

We picked up the decoys and headed for home.  Back home at 4:10 p.m. with plenty of time to take care of the ducks and for him to get home to see an old friend.

I think Edjukateer shot 33 times and managed to get 5 ducks of his limit.  Somehow my gun went off once after I had my limit and that duck ended up in his limit.  So, 13 ducks were brought home and I have since cleaned them up and ground them for jerky.

It was another fine day in the marsh.  Thanks for playing Edjukateer….OH YA….and showing me just how to shoot AT ducks.  He did manage to bag a very cool mix of birds.

The next time we see these 13 ducks they will be made into jerky!  MMMMMM!

Bears Butt

Nov. 2011