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Posted: 10/18/2020 10:39:31 AM EDT
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Do you know if the whole Atlantic Flyway limit was reduced? It would piss me off mightily if they only reduced the northeast and not, say, the Chesapeake/mid Atlantic area as well.
Hitting the goose field in the morning. Seems to be a lot more geese around this year than in the past several years. |
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Posted: 10/18/2020 2:42:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JCoop: Do you know if the whole Atlantic Flyway limit was reduced? It would piss me off mightily if they only reduced the northeast and not, say, the Chesapeake/mid Atlantic area as well. Hitting the goose field in the morning. Seems to be a lot more geese around this year than in the past several years. The whole AF (outside of Canada) is at the restrictive limits on mallards and geese, Maryland has even gone to 1 goose/30 days as they don't have the resident birds mixed in like we do. And yes, there are ALOT more geese around this year than last. |
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Posted: 11/29/2020 8:36:58 PM EDT
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A little Thanksgiving week hunting, ducks have been great up until this last weekend when it got warm and no wind. Now on to the end of the season push with a month to go.
Ellie has been coming along and really picking up on all the different hunting locations  Attached File Attached File Attached FileAnd Addi on a limit shoot  Attached File |
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Posted: 12/1/2020 11:11:07 AM EDT
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Very nice pics.
I've been in the deer woods for weeks so haven't been out for waterfowl much. I did get out Sunday for an afternoon hunt at a place I haven't been to for a few years. Really just to get the lay of the land, see what's changed in the last couple years. The only "waterfowl" I saw was a stinkin loon. As you pointed out, this warm spell is a disaster for duck hunting. |
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Posted: 12/22/2020 8:08:08 PM EDT
[Last Edit: VTDuckGuy]
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Season is almost over and probably the last retrieve for Addi of 2020, Ellie will be finishing up the last few hunts. Funny thing is, if you look back at the begining of the season and opening day, the banded bird Ellie retrieved was sequential numbers with the band from today
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Posted: 12/22/2020 11:01:25 PM EDT
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Glad to see this thread still going. Great shots as always.
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Posted: 12/23/2020 12:03:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By VTDuckGuy: Season is almost over and probably the last retrieve for Addi of 2020, Ellie will be finishing up the last few hunts. Funny thing is, if you look back at the begining of the season and opening day, the banded bird Ellie retrieved was sequential numbers with the band from today https://i.imgur.com/D6BLkPc.jpg
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Posted: 12/28/2020 8:45:14 AM EDT
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The 2020 season came to a close yesterday and a few pictures of Ellie finishing up.
   War paint after chasing down a crippled goldeneye  Last duck of the season  |
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Posted: 12/28/2020 10:30:27 AM EDT
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Suburban retrievers have no idea what they are missing.
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Posted: 12/28/2020 11:43:46 AM EDT
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Looks like a great finish to the season. And I'm not jealous. At all. None.
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TN, USA
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Posted: 1/18/2021 7:19:31 PM EDT
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Man what a great thread. I’ve been waterfowl hunting for 10 years and am just finally getting me a dog this spring. Got a deposit down on a british lab. Should be an interesting spring/summer. Thanks for all of the posts, I hope to be able to contribute a little myself.
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Posted: 1/24/2021 6:13:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ropin4gold: Man what a great thread. I've been waterfowl hunting for 10 years and am just finally getting me a dog this spring. Got a deposit down on a british lab. Should be an interesting spring/summer. Thanks for all of the posts, I hope to be able to contribute a little myself.  Took the girls for a walk out back on this cold day, realized after I took the picture they are in the exact spot I found my 2019 buck.  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/11/2021 7:07:10 PM EDT
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Happy 10th birthday kid
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Posted: 2/11/2021 7:56:36 PM EDT
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Wow, time flies.
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Posted: 2/12/2021 8:53:15 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/28/2021 7:28:30 PM EDT
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Birthday kid from a couple of days ago, 2 years went by really fast......and she can find mud in a desert
Countdown is on for the dogs "kid" to come home from school for the summer, 2 weeks from today |
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Posted: 8/21/2021 4:20:15 PM EDT
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Been a bit since I have posted, busy summer has flown by and goose starts in less than 2 weeks. Mutt and Jeff got to play on the fun boat for the afternoon, before the "hurricane" comes in tomorrow
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Posted: 9/6/2021 4:17:07 PM EDT
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First weekend of goose is over and Addi put another band in the boat, was nice because it was the "kids" first goose band. 4 year old molt migrant banded in Saratoga NY
  
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Posted: 9/20/2021 4:23:44 PM EDT
[Last Edit: VTDuckGuy]
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Goose season has been hot and the girls are working hard, a few more bands in the boat along with a pile of birds.
   Sage and Addi close to home    Ellie and Sage  |
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Posted: 9/21/2021 6:50:30 PM EDT
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Had to add a couple more from a 3 band day today, should have been 1 more band but the last bird of the limit was missed, the band shining in the sun
 
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Posted: 2/7/2022 11:56:53 PM EDT
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Delaware Canada limit is 1 a day - ridiculous.
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Posted: 2/8/2022 11:27:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By VAbull: Delaware Canada limit is 1 a day - ridiculous. |
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Posted: 2/8/2022 11:41:39 AM EDT
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Good job, great dog
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Posted: 2/8/2022 12:40:21 PM EDT
[Last Edit: VTDuckGuy]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By VAbull: Delaware Canada limit is 1 a day - ridiculous. |
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Posted: 2/8/2022 12:55:27 PM EDT
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Well I have been slacking a bit on updates for the season. Addi started to show her age a bit later this year, she still thinks she is 2, but starts to get a bit sore after a good hunt. So Ellie will be taking over most of the retrieving duties this fall, Addi will still go on some of the easy swimming only hunts with no mud involved.
Friday will also be Addis 11th birthday  Here are a few shots of the girls from the 22' season      Remind me to never get another yellow dog       
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Posted: 2/12/2022 3:25:32 AM EDT
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Thanks for the update. I found some old Gun Dog magazines in a box the other day and thought of this thread.
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Posted: 3/27/2022 4:54:26 PM EDT
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Brought my wife and Ellie on their first pheasant/chuckar hunt yesterday, they both had a ton of fun.
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Posted: 3/28/2022 8:25:34 AM EDT
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That's pretty cool, OP. Which preserve was this? I believe there is one in/near Thetford that I've pondered trying.
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Posted: 3/28/2022 8:52:48 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JCoop: That's pretty cool, OP. Which preserve was this? I believe there is one in/near Thetford that I've pondered trying. |
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Posted: 3/28/2022 10:50:48 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By VTDuckGuy: Peaceable Hill in Shoreham, they run a great operation. |
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Posted: 4/27/2022 10:56:14 AM EDT
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Happy 3rd birthday goofy.......
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Posted: 5/24/2022 9:14:58 AM EDT
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So, Ellie just made the most difficult retrieve of her life so far
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Posted: 6/2/2022 2:42:32 PM EDT
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 I hope you got video! |
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Posted: 6/2/2022 6:31:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JCoop: I hope you got video!  He was sneaking up the back yard after a couple of hens, I was in a pair of shorts (they were camo) and crocs using the wheelbarrow as cover When I came back to put the Benelli away, Ellie ran out and the next thing I saw was her dragging it down the hill 20#, 12", 1 1/8He has been a pain in the ass all spring, tried to kill him "the real way" a few times and he had been beating me. A total neighborhood bird, had him strutting in the road in front of the house 6 or 7 times, but can't shoot that direction. This time you fucked up AAron..... |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 9:00:01 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/1/2022 2:43:41 PM EDT
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Year 11? Has started. Had to bring E to this spot as the mud would have killed Addi, I now have a very exhausted 3 year old
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Posted: 9/27/2022 5:41:40 PM EDT
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Addi still getting it done at 11.5
 Early goose was on fire, 6 bands and a bunch of very tired dogs. Now on to duck season in a few weeks   
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Posted: 9/28/2022 5:55:33 PM EDT
[Last Edit: JCoop]
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Now that's a pile of geese! Well done.
Went out Sunday for the last day of early season and limited, 5 geese in 5 shots. A very rare event, I can assure you . We were done shooting by 0700 and when we walked out of the field to get trucks to pack up another 300 birds showed up.There are an absolute ton of geese over here. I wonder if they were pushed south early by the hurricane in maritime Canada? All of our corn fields are cut already, no doubt due to the drought, so all of those geese are going to hang out until regular season opener  ETA: We cripped one bird on the opening volley and elected to go collect it later due to incoming on the horizon. By the time we got around to it, that bird was 200 yards away, flapping and running across an adjacent pasture. My dog hadn't seen this bird go down and didn't know it was out there. I lined him and sent him and he cut that bird's trail and followed it way the hell out there. The bird was able to fly in brief spurts so it was off to the races. About 300 yards out there, he caught up to it and fought it into submission. It was an epic retrieve. |
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Posted: 9/30/2022 10:48:16 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JCoop: Now that's a pile of geese! Well done. Went out Sunday for the last day of early season and limited, 5 geese in 5 shots. A very rare event, I can assure you . We were done shooting by 0700 and when we walked out of the field to get trucks to pack up another 300 birds showed up.There are an absolute ton of geese over here. I wonder if they were pushed south early by the hurricane in maritime Canada? All of our corn fields are cut already, no doubt due to the drought, so all of those geese are going to hang out until regular season opener ETA: We cripped one bird on the opening volley and elected to go collect it later due to incoming on the horizon. By the time we got around to it, that bird was 200 yards away, flapping and running across an adjacent pasture. My dog hadn't seen this bird go down and didn't know it was out there. I lined him and sent him and he cut that bird's trail and followed it way the hell out there. The bird was able to fly in brief spurts so it was off to the races. About 300 yards out there, he caught up to it and fought it into submission. It was an epic retrieve. Ellie did the "Nascar lap" at our spot on the 32 bird day, 3 times. Chased a crip away from the boat to the far shore, down the far shore, back to the boat side and finally caught it, all in all about a 1/4-1/3 of a mile each time. It is a giant production to get the boat out to open water and is a pain in the ass, to put it lightly. I ended up shooting crips with #7 TSS at long ranges as my daughter worked for Remington this summer and got me some for cheap.
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Posted: 12/7/2022 5:38:58 PM EDT
[Last Edit: VTDuckGuy]
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I am not going to drag this thing back for you.........And fuck you Imgur for deleting a dead deer picture
 
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Posted: 12/18/2022 5:06:37 PM EDT
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And a nice way to finish up the season, 2 stud pintails 2 days in a row
    
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Posted: 12/18/2022 5:31:31 PM EDT
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Great post. Thank you for sharing. Those pictures make me miss my retrievers even more. I have moved from Louisiana to Florida, and, unfortunately, my boys passed on to the rainbow bridge. But wow....the memories they left behind.
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Posted: 12/18/2022 10:10:00 PM EDT
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Thanks for keeping the thread going. Glad to see your kitty is still hanging in there.
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Posted: 2/17/2023 9:18:40 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/9/2023 8:15:55 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/9/2023 8:25:01 PM EDT
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LOL. Nice.
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Posted: 4/20/2023 6:00:01 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/12/2023 1:09:03 AM EDT
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This is an amazing thread! Thanks OP for doing this. I have been an avid duck hunter for 40 years and have only killed one banded duck. I killed it in the Anahuac NWR in 2009. When I called the number, I was told the duck was banded about 200 yards from where I killed it.
I'm about to make a thread in here about my new pup. |
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Posted: 9/3/2023 6:12:28 PM EDT
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Been quiet around here this summer. Addi is pretty much retired from hunting, she will still go a couple of times this fall on some easy hunts but that is about it.
Goose season started Friday, and my first bird/Ellies first retrieve of the season was a banded honker. Not sure if that is a good or bad omen   |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 1:51:16 PM EDT
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Great weekend considering how hot it is around here, we actually saw the first migrators come down on the north wind yesterday. 32 birds in the boat, 4 bands including one from Ontario and my hunting partners 1yo chocolate lab "Cooper" really figured out "holy shit, this is great!"
He was away at the pro trainer for 6 weeks this summer for the basics, but nothing can equal a bunch of geese hanging on top of your head.       |
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