tod osier's latest activity

Not very nice looking at all. We have been crazy cold here in CT (relatively speaking) the past month, we have had snow on the ground...

Good stuff, funny on the shared 16 gauge model 37 experience. I grew up near the Ithaca factory (travel to the folks cottage was on the...

Student in my Ornithology class showed me a pic of a recently dead scaup the other day and said there were more dead ducks around.

Started shooting with an Ithaca 37 in 16 gauge. Shot that gun a lot and sure missed a lot, sometimes I felt like it was just good for...

My 16ga. is the plain standard stock with no rib and corn cob forend. It shoots like a Dream. If ya can try to find a Mod. barrel for...

Never done an American, but a Black in a gunning style. The bills are weird, so anything you could do to lock that in would be a benefit.

I've always wanted one, so now I have two (Jen's grandfather's and her dad's). The two I have are similar ages as yours, one from the...

Gotta stop and check their legs… never know!

Gone like the glory days of the scaup in CT (which I missed out on). I certainly got my fair share of brant during the good years.

Got a pair 12 gauge 2 3/4 inch model 12s recently and have nothing to feed them. Wish I have known they were headed my way so that I...

I know there are guys that hold out for bands, but I've not really done that. I certainly have shot brant that I saw the bands on when...

Ye Yep it’s unfortunate. Twice I’ve pulled up to spots that I hunt and while getting brushed in I’ve found a pile of birds in the...

Yes!

They do like to band them, that is for sure, there are times I wonder what the positive outcomes of all the banding had been. I've never...

An interesting note is that those color banded brant both came from a spot that I didn't hunt too often. They were shot in two different...