Bull has landed in Alabama!

Carl

Carl

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Bull has landed safe & sound in Alabama.
He will spend the day conversing with a few companions in my office.
Don't think I will get to hunt this weekend. Between a nasty cold and the threat of thunderstorms and tornadoes, I think it will be Monday before he gets outside.
More updates to come!

Here he is hanging out with a coot carved by Chuck, one of my older foamers, and LSB buffie & GE plus a couple of his deceased brethren from years past.

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Good luck with bull, your reports are one of the best parts of this site.

Also did you kill that Goldeneye in AL?
 
Yep sure did.
The year I got him, we seemed to have a good number of GEs down, which is unusual. Most years I don't see any.
Looking back at my records, that year, January 2003, a bunch showed up. I shot my first one ever, a hen, on the Jan. 20th.
Then I pulled a scotch double on a hen & immature drake on the 25th. The next morning, the first bird into the decoys was the mature drake you see in the photo.

I didn't kill another one until January 2005 and then another one in January 2006. And don't think I have shot one since.

Given our temperatures this year, I don't expect to see any.
 
The buffie and the GE are from Lock, Stock & Barrel, 2 part foam.
Lou makes some great decoys (and sells fantastic paints). He molded them, I painted them (oils: FME & Rustoleum plus a green wash from Lou). Check out his website. http://www.lockstockbarrell.com/
These only saw the water one season and then on the shelf they went.
I need to dig out the keels and float them again some day.
 
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Thanks Carl,
My brain didn't pick up on the "LSB"...
If I can ever figure out how to post pics on this site, I have a wood Buff that looks much like that...a wee bit chubbier, but I love that...
 
Yep sure did.
The year I got him, we seemed to have a good number of GEs down, which is unusual. Most years I don't see any.
Looking back at my records, that year, January 2003, a bunch showed up. I shot my first one ever, a hen, on the Jan. 20th.
Then I pulled a scotch double on a hen & immature drake on the 25th. The next morning, the first bird into the decoys was the mature drake you see in the photo.

I didn't kill another one until January 2005 and then another one in January 2006. And don't think I have shot one since.

Given our temperatures this year, I don't expect to see any.
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Very cool, didn't realize they made it that far south. I still haven't killed one or even seen one this year which is the first time in several years. We don't get a ton of them either and are a blast to hunt
 
We even get scoters from time to time. Mainly whitewings, but I have seen 1 surf scoter in 20 years. Even saw an oldsquaw one year.
 
Glad to see that he made it there safely. I hope he enjoys his time in Alabama and works well for you. I'm looking forward to your reports.
 
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