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11/07/12 05:43 PM
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Whenever I get outside when I'm not "supposed" to, I always think of an Aldo Leuopold quote from Sand County Almanac. "the sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has ever been, or else find some undiscovered place under everyone else's nose." I consider quick hunt before work to be stolen in that same manner. My cousin blackmag312 is in town for a training, and we hit the lease this morning for a quick hunt. Right at an hour drive out there, and about and hour and a half back With traffic. Shooting time was at 6:12, and we had one group of greenwings buzz the spread and land in the far corner 5 minutes early, they booked out shortly after. One single greenwings bombed the decoys, Stephen wiffed three times, and I crunched him. Rusty made a great retrieve in fifth gear. Few minutes later a jet engine cruises on the decoys at mach 5. "was that a....," "yep, that's a can!". Hit the jerk cord, little diver purr (not sure that mattered), and he swung around for pass number two. Stephen and I both put a load his direction and he winged down. Raced down the levee and put a swatter on him, and rusty fetched it up. Two more single greenwings, and we picked up decoys 47 minutes after lst to make it in. Not a bad hunt, we were 100% on the birds we saw. Spread  Birds 
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11/07/12 06:06 PM
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Re: stolen hunts...
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11/07/12 08:32 PM
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11/07/12 08:50 PM
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Thief  Sounds like y'all had a good morning and at very least you have some stuff to give Stephen grief about 
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11/07/12 08:52 PM
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He actually did it twice. But I didn't crumpled the second on my first shot either.
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11/07/12 08:54 PM
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11/07/12 09:03 PM
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Forgot to mention, this is a shallow flooded ag field, deepest water around was about 7 inches.
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11/07/12 09:54 PM
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11/07/12 10:16 PM
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Some good eating ducks in that string
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11/07/12 11:12 PM
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Duck Boy, where is your field. It looks like we are hunting the same area.
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11/07/12 11:16 PM
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This field is one of many on the lease I'm on, but this particular field was near east Bernard.
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11/07/12 11:21 PM
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Some good eating ducks in that string The can will be aged, plucked, and roasted with salt, pepper, maybe a touch of thyme. Then I will lick every single bone dry. The teal will get added to the pile I brought home last weekend.
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11/07/12 11:27 PM
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Ok. Im in the monaville area and it looks like a field down the road.
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