Change in Morning Plans & Other Updates

Last night, we stayed up until 3am watching the election returns - even though certain politicians didn't. Given the importance of the election & lackluster results so far hunting ducks, the decision to get some rest wasn't too hard.

As an update from Monday duck hunting: After watching the video, we realized that I also shot a duck (we thought that Dan shot 2 and me 0). The situation was that as the ducks came at us, we both stood to shoot as I called "Take 'em". As I acquired my target & just before I pulled the trigger, the bird folded (Dan shot it a split second before I pulled the trigger), so I adjusted to shoot at a different bird. I then fired at it (as he shot a 2nd & 3rd shot to bring down a different duck). I didn't think I hit it. About 15 minutes after Mag retrieved Dan's 2 birds, we saw an object floating out on the water about 75 yards away and getting farther (the wind was blowing from our backs). We wondered if I could have hit the bird I shot at & decided to walk around the pond to check it out once we were done for the day. I/we forgot to do that and didn't give it another thought until we were reviewing the video and saw that I did hit the bird and that it then circled back over the water. Although the film doesn't show it splashing down, we are pretty confident (based on all the circumstantial evidence) that the object we saw floating was that duck...


This afternoon, we're going to head out between 1 & 2 to go back to the Aberdeen area for pheasants. We're hopeful that we can turn around our performance in the pheasant fields.