Nice mount coot hammer. The one cdoz35 got was very nice! I scouted the place a few days earlier and we had about 20-30 out in the middle. Didn't think we would get any of them to decoy but one drake made the fatal mistake and came in by himself.

I've shot about half a dozen over the past 6-7 years... seems like there is consistently a group or two that roll in with the Redheads every year where I hunt. I had one mounted in 2010 and I'll tell you this... they look a lot better on the wall than they taste on the plate- that's a fact.

They aren't real common where we hunt, but we can set up closer to bigger water and see them occasionally. Shot a couple so far. I always consider it a great bird to add to the bag. My rule of thumb, if I haven't seen one shot before, it's goin on the wall

Alright so I have decided to have it mounted. Do ya'll have suggestions where I should send it? I want a quality job done, so I am not looking at just the price. This will be the first one I have had done, so I don't have anyone that I have used yet.

Isnt that a golden eye?

Yes.

OHHHHH you want one to go with those I gotcha... lol

This is freakin sweet!!!

I had mine done at Top Gun Taxidermy in Holland, TX. Randy Pistole did a great job and it is such a great memory!

Sorry for the confusion, that shelf there is gonna be the forever spot for the first drake I drop!

posted a pic

double from last year

They aren't rare, they just don't like to decoy. Makes it harder to knock them down when they constantly stay 10 to 150 yards off your spread. We used to see them all the time down on East Matagorda just sitting off our spread, and no amount of coaxing would get them to even pay attention to us.

I've shot a couple of them over the years. Wanted to get one mounted, but never got around to it and a tropical storm knocked power out at the duck camp and we had to toss it. Sucks, because it was a nice drake.

At this time I had seen few of them so we passed it off as a merganser lol

FIL and I saw a bunch of them on a lake right outside Greenville the other day. It's not a lake we can hunt though.

Yeah big water for sure. When I see them, it seems I see a lot of them. Otherwise, I never see them. They will typically stack up on big water as the season goes on. A local lake around here will have tons in December and January.

Oh I'd like to shoot one. What lake is that Gary?

Lake manigotapee... youll need some serious firepower

Lake Devine in Leander and Lake Pflugerville. Get there early those places fill up really fast.

Purtis Creek will have hundreds of them as well.

Thank you. I was thinking about maybe hunting Lake Yougottabeshittingmeman this weekend.

Shot them in Arkansas but on lakes. Never seen one in NTX.