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>Michigan’s duck season opened in the northern and middle zones on >Saturday, the 4th. I hunted with my brother and some buddies in a >heavily hunted Eastern Upper Peninsula marsh – one that I had sworn many >years ago NEVER to hunt on the opening weekend. My memory was soon >refreshed as to why I don’t like hunting there. My first thoughts were of >Joe Lunenschloss when, on the day before season during a "flyby" of our >blind to see what was happening, we discovered that someone had anchored >a floating blind within 40 yards of our blind! We had built the blind >approx. six weeks ago, before the early honker season.
Tom, Sorry to hear about your encounter with the idiot…really that was the point of my posts on the subject. Among the things I bemoaned…was the fact that no respect is shown for other hunters anymore. Anchoring a floating blind 40 yds from yours is absolutely unbelievable…even in this day and time. Maybe next time you beat someone to their "floating blind" by suficient time, and they have anchored only 40 yds from you…you might condsider "unanchoring" their blind. Naw…you wouldn’t b do that > ; > joe Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/ To leave the Hunting listserv list, send a message with SIGNOFF HUNTING
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> At any rate, if we’re starting up the "Flight Reports" thread again this > year, here’s my contribution: Any birds which were in the EUP are now on > their way south. There were LOTS of guys out; LOTS of shooting. There > were a fair number of ringnecks, scaup and mallards around. > Mosquitoes were thick! So were the skybusters.
Sounds like your opening was very much like ours. On Saturday, we hunted the public marshes on Lake Poygan in Central Wisconsin. The teal and wood ducks were pretty active, but the skybusters were pathetic. My brother and I would watch a flight of ducks that were at least 80-100 yards off the ground approach a nearby treeline, when the yahoos would open up emptying their guns. Of course they never hit anything, but did scare the hell out of all the ducks for the rest of us. The only ones happy from such practices are Remington and Federal, it keeps their shotshell production lines fully employed. I swear that two "hunters" shot at a passing 747! My only hope is that these "hunters" will stay inside once the temperature drops. Anyway, weekend total, without dog: 3 green wing teal 1 mallard 2 wood ducks 5 recovered, 1 lost in marsh (making us both very unhappy) M.J. Roman Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/ To leave the Hunting listserv list, send a message with SIGNOFF HUNTING
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Just back from central Saskatchewan. Lots of ducks and a zillion geese. We did real well on the mallards, teal, and gadwall. Saw a suprising number of bluewings. On the goose side, there were a tremendous number of snows (Ross and Blue incl.), ample canadas, and a smattering of specks. We mostly decoy shot but had a hell of a morning when we crawled under the flight line between the lake and a field of 10,000+ feeding geese. With a hard wind they were on the deck, just above the hay bales we were hiding behind. I envy you guys on the Central flyway. There are a ton of birds coming. Every pothole and slough we saw had ducks. Good hunting! Ed Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/ To leave the Hunting listserv list, send a message with SIGNOFF HUNTING
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Michigan’s duck season opened in the northern and middle zones on Saturday, the 4th. I hunted with my brother and some buddies in a heavily hunted Eastern Upper Peninsula marsh – one that I had sworn many years ago NEVER to hunt on the opening weekend. My memory was soon refreshed as to why I don’t like hunting there. My first thoughts were of Joe Lunenschloss when, on the day before season during a "flyby" of our blind to see what was happening, we discovered that someone had anchored a floating blind within 40 yards of our blind! We had built the blind approx. six weeks ago, before the early honker season. No problem, we figured. No one will be out here earlier than us. That was true, but it didn’t stop the dipshit from setting up shop in his blind. We were set up an hour before shooting time. We were enjoying a cup of coffee and a meteor shower when numbnuts showed up 15 minutes before shooting time. He had to damn near run through our decoy spread to get to his blind, but he was not to be swayed from getting there. It was quite hard to believe. As it turned out, neither of us shot at many birds because we weren’t in a good area. (It was good for geese, not so hot for ducks.) At any rate, if we’re starting up the "Flight Reports" thread again this year, here’s my contribution: Any birds which were in the EUP are now on their way south. There were LOTS of guys out; LOTS of shooting. There were a fair number of ringnecks, scaup and mallards around. Mosquitoes were thick! So were the skybusters. We should have checked out local beaver ponds like Randy Buker did. Oh well, live and learn. Bring on the flight birds! Tom Pink E.U.P. Duck Camp Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/ To leave the Hunting listserv list, send a message with SIGNOFF HUNTING
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I had a friend that used to hunt with his grandfather. the old man was really up there in years and had vision problems but loved to squirrel hunt. So they would sit together and listen for squirrels. My bud would look for them and when they got close he would help gramps put the shotgun bead on it. He did this by looking over his shoulder. the old man would then blast it into the frying pan. I’m not sure how a rifle would work, but this worked for them until he died. Good Luck. John Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/ To leave the Hunting listserv list, send a message with SIGNOFF HUNTING
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> Please send any info you have on this as my coworkers son has gone blind but > still wants to hunt for elk.he has no computer to get this info so Im looking
How blind is blind? You have to consider safety, etc., whether he can determine whether it’s an animal (and what species, sex, whether the rack is legal, etc) or a person in front of him. If his pride doesn’t mean much to him, you can "hold his hand" and do all his seeing for him and make all his judgement calls about shoot/noshoot … his "degree of blindness" comes to play here. I heard about one blind guy who had a special rifle build so somebody else could look though the scope, tell him how to move the gun to line up the crosshairs, and when to squeeze off the shot. He managed to get a nice antelope at about 250 yards. I don’t think I, personally, could do that. I reckon if it was me being blind, I’d give up on the shooting part and go along as a pack mule … maintain a little dignity, still hang out with the guys and enjoy the cameraderie of the hunt, still be making a contribution to the hunt … without somebody having to wipe my butt for me. But then .. I’m sorta an independent cuss. Tom Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/ To leave the Hunting listserv list, send a message with SIGNOFF HUNTING
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Please send any info you have on this as my coworkers son has gone blind but still wants to hunt for elk.he has no computer to get this info so Im looking Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/ To leave the Hunting listserv list, send a message with SIGNOFF HUNTING