We got to see quite a spectacle before legal shooting time today and had fairly steady action throughout the morning. We hunted the stream flowing through Jerry's property, but on the South side of Hwy41, on the property of Morris Miller (who was nice enough to give us permission to hunt there this week). We finished with a total of 11 ducks in the bag, 1 short of a two-man limit! We were finally set up and ready to go well before shooting time, and we were treated to a continuous stream of birds in our face for 30 minutes in the dark and in the pre-dawn gloam.
On multiple occasions, we had birds so close we could have swatted them with our shotgun barrel & over a dozen landed in 1's & 2's within 5 yds of our seats in the brush. Through all of that, Jackson was quiet and steady on his retriever stand. Very good boy...
We both shot very well, in large part because most of the shots we took were straightforward and routine. We ended the day with Bill shooting 4 birds (1 Drake Mallard, 2 Gadwall, 1 GW Teal), Dan shooting 5 birds (1 drake Mallard, 1 Shoveler, 3 GW Teal), and we doubled up on 2 birds (drake Mallard, GW Teal). Nothing was feet down landing in the decoys, but most were low & slow checking us out.
Jax retrieved 8 of the 11, with 2 coming while Dan was on his usual morning walk & 1 when we were walking at the end of the day to pick our spot to sit there next time (while Jax & Dad stayed to guard the decoys).
We're planning to hunt this spot again either Thursday or Saturday. Tomorrow we'll be at Goven's again - same property (different pond) as we hunted on Saturday. We just finished lunch and have an hour until we head out for pheasants tonight.
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