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A "banded" bird I'll never forget!
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04/20/15 11:22 PM
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Meant to post this in January but life got in the way. Around October of last year I decided it was time to propose to my girlfriend of 3 years, but I couldn't really decide how I would do it. After talking it over with some buddies, I decided that I wanted to do it while on a hunt. My plan was to have everyone in on it, but her, and when the birds worked in I would call the shot. Right then everyone would stand up, and shoulder their gun, but she would be the only one to fire. Once she dropped a bird, I would send my lab to retrieve it, and once the bird was back in hand, I would slip the engagement band over the foot, and tell her that it was "banded" all while a buddy was filming. In theory this was GOLD to me, unfortunately I made one small miscalculation... Her shooting skills. I never pushed her to go because I didn't want her to get suspicious, and she went a solid, 8 or so times throughout the season. However every time I said the code word for my buddies not to shoot, she came up empty. Finally the last day of the season one of my buddies had a pond in his back yard that he had been saving to hunt all year. It was covered in mallards, and he told me to go ahead and put her on a hunt. After several missed opportunities, I began to get frustrated, of coarse she couldn't understand why. Just when I was about to give up a pair of gadwall came in, and landed at 15yds. I told her to shoot one off the water, but she said not till they jump. She hollered at them, and they got up... Boom...Boom..........Boom. On her third shot at HAILMARY+++ yards she dropped the drake. I followed through with my plan, and she said yes. It was a memory I'll never forget.
Arise.Kill.Eat -Acts 10:13 I have read a bunch of stuff on the internet about Star Wars but that does not mean I can skin a deer with a light saber.
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Re: A "banded" bird I'll never forget!
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04/20/15 11:49 PM
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That's a great story to tell the grandkids! Congrats.
LETS GO BRANDON
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Re: A "banded" bird I'll never forget!
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04/21/15 12:56 AM
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"Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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Re: A "banded" bird I'll never forget!
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04/21/15 02:10 AM
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There is a lot of win in this post
Well done on the proposal...
We all need to practice Whoa more.
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Re: A "banded" bird I'll never forget!
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04/21/15 02:35 AM
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Preciate' it guys! The story of how many times I checked my pocket paranoid that I lost the ring throughout the season is a whole different story in its own!
Arise.Kill.Eat -Acts 10:13 I have read a bunch of stuff on the internet about Star Wars but that does not mean I can skin a deer with a light saber.
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Re: A "banded" bird I'll never forget!
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04/21/15 02:41 AM
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congrats man! That's the best band you can get out there.
Coastal Prairie & Matagorda Bay system. Sic'em.
"The value of any trophy from the field depends not on its size but on the magnitude of the effort expended in its pursuit." - Aldo Leopol
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Re: A "banded" bird I'll never forget!
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04/21/15 05:27 AM
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Thats a really cool story man glad everything worked out! Congrats!
God Bless
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Re: A "banded" bird I'll never forget!
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04/21/15 01:23 PM
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That's great, but which cost more the ring are the waterfowl loads for all the missed shots? LOL... Neat idea and even cooler that you stuck with it. This shows dedication to a long-term plan. Surely she appreciates that. Oh, and congrats! Best of luck to the both of you.
"I have no idea what WW-III will be fought with, but WW-IV will be fought with sticks and stones." A. Einstein
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Re: A "banded" bird I'll never forget!
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04/21/15 07:24 PM
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Nice work sir. Congrats to the both of you.
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