dirtclod Az.
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Practice makes perfect! 〽Finished dinner and commenced drinking.tucked in for the night.
SFC is putting forth some effort this year......
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Sorry it has taken so long for a decent write up but man was I bushed when I got home last night. Didn't really sleep Friday night, long day of nothing on Saturday and then Sunday-Funday
Sunday found us in a corn stubble field in a-frame blinds brushed in really well against a line of head high grass along a big ditch. We set them up, brushed them in and from out in the spread you could only see the blinds if you knew exactly what you were looking for. The spread was facing east and almost immediately the weather turned on. It was about 22F and at first light it started to snow slowly, but steadily with total cloud cover and a pretty low ceiling. About 0815-0830 the birds decided it was time get their feed on. We got small groups at first who decoyed incredibly. The first 7 came in groups of 3,2,1 and 1 and we went 100% on all of those. Throughout the morning they kept coming in varying sizes, usually decoying in from the south (so from my right to left). We kept smoking until about 1140 when we shot what would be our 20th and final bird.
For lunch we had a buddy bring out some Subway and we no longer started eating than the ding-dang sun came out. It would be patchy the rest of the afternoon. It became painfully obvious as the afternoon went on that the geese had eaten their fill and were only interested in heading back to their roosts.
The pics are of the spread, a flock in the air, one that landed to the left of our spread and stayed there for 1/2 hour, Ritz (Ryan's lab who did a very good job) and the glory shots.
Sunday found us in a corn stubble field in a-frame blinds brushed in really well against a line of head high grass along a big ditch. We set them up, brushed them in and from out in the spread you could only see the blinds if you knew exactly what you were looking for. The spread was facing east and almost immediately the weather turned on. It was about 22F and at first light it started to snow slowly, but steadily with total cloud cover and a pretty low ceiling. About 0815-0830 the birds decided it was time get their feed on. We got small groups at first who decoyed incredibly. The first 7 came in groups of 3,2,1 and 1 and we went 100% on all of those. Throughout the morning they kept coming in varying sizes, usually decoying in from the south (so from my right to left). We kept smoking until about 1140 when we shot what would be our 20th and final bird.
For lunch we had a buddy bring out some Subway and we no longer started eating than the ding-dang sun came out. It would be patchy the rest of the afternoon. It became painfully obvious as the afternoon went on that the geese had eaten their fill and were only interested in heading back to their roosts.
The pics are of the spread, a flock in the air, one that landed to the left of our spread and stayed there for 1/2 hour, Ritz (Ryan's lab who did a very good job) and the glory shots.
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SFC B
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Oh, one cool thing I forgot to mention. While setting up the spread we saw a very dark, melanistic coyote skirting the field.......all went "Ooooohh" almost simultaneously. Would have loved a shot at that joker
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Looks like a fun trip.
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