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  1. Nick Zito

    Aging Ducks; Anyone Try This?

    I too do this. Gut shot are cleaned quickly. The remainder hang in the garage. Hopefully it doesn't get cold enough to freeze them solid in there.
  2. Nick Zito

    You Call That Lumber Grading?

    Rick, Maryland regulates anyone cutting forest products. The man in charge of that is a very close friend of mine, I'm actually hoping he comes up for a late season goose hunt later this month. Products going into home construction are typically regulated beyond the state level on the onset...
  3. Nick Zito

    You Call That Lumber Grading?

    There is a standard set. I tried to send one of our sawyer trainees to it down in Memphis last summer. NHLA puts it on, and there is a true certificate program. One can even watch a quick webinar on it to get close. Logan Wells had put one on when he was at Wisconsin Department of natural...
  4. Nick Zito

    FWC Mottled Duck vs. Mallard

    I wish that were true. I hunt there and I can say it is very bothersome that a mile in each direction are AFRP And my field is NAPH. There are only 5 hunters in Orange, and 4 of them are in my family. The town requires a discharge permit from local PD even to hunt- very annoying and questionably...
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    FWC Mottled Duck vs. Mallard

    I agree with the comment above that the black ducks I shoot are very dark and not confused with mallard hens unless at first light. CTs biologists methods are what they are. I have bigger gripes with them that they won't put our 3 goose zones on the public hunting areas map which is overlain on...
  6. Nick Zito

    Who's out this morning?

    My youngest and I went out this morning, she can buy her first license right after the new year when she turns 12. Typically Turkeyday+1 sucks for me, but today we were able to extinguish the flame that was Moby Goose. Moby Goose was a goose I crippled on an epic hunt in October of 2024 in which...
  7. Nick Zito

    A300 Cabela's Black Friday Sale - Purchase......

    Friends have bought them. My only complaint is they won't take a magazine extension for early goose here
  8. Nick Zito

    2 person layout- modified MLB- trailer

    Listing is for 1750 With trailer
  9. Nick Zito

    Shooting Lessons?

    I just took my 11 year old this morning to the local club and shot a box of ammo. Typical bunch of older men giving her pointers. We stopped after a box as she's still small, but she wants to go back. She turns 12 in January and will be able to hunt ducks on her birthday, so she is taking more...
  10. Nick Zito

    Custom Decoy Bags

    I too got this email
  11. Nick Zito

    Speaking of Clothing...

    I have the firstlite furnace (or whatever the thickest set is) and it is more than enough for CT. I often hunt with that and my tin cloth shell. Definitely be weary of sweating too much or you will get cold. I've hunted in just the base layers on some days, which is always funny to me thinking...
  12. Nick Zito

    Layout Blind suggestions?

    I also use the northern flight in goose fields and it's killer. I've used it in the marshes here where the tide swing can be 6'+ and I prioritize the high dry spots for those days. If it gets wet it's just another thing i have to lug around and wash when i get home due to the salt
  13. Nick Zito

    US Drought Monitor: Conditions Improving

    Same with much of southern New England. I'm just outside of New Haven and we have had less than 1" of rain in two months in my exact location. I live on a dirt road and our vehicles looks like we just finished a 1,000 mile rally through the Sahara. Thank god I installed drip irrigation on the...
  14. Nick Zito

    2 person layout- modified MLB- trailer

    2 person modified MLB layout. Previous owner was in ME and added the gunnels. Thing is heavy as hell, very study. Has a skeg for towing. Replaced the hardware recently and put some paint on it. I cut the seats out as things always got lost behind the chair. Includes one MoMarsh Invisilounge...
  15. Nick Zito

    Steel Shells at Rodgers OUtdoors

    Agreed. I loved their products. I assume they're moving to tungsten, but not sure. The stingers were nice. I loved the lower power loads. And same on the price of bismuth. When for it in 2023 it was cheap!
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    Steel Shells at Rodgers OUtdoors

    Tod I got bismuth reloading supplies a year or two and am playing with that. I did also pick up some of the Winchester bismuth to see how it works. I can't justify paying for tungsten on a state salary, and my aim isn't THAT good. But I don't want to go back to steel if I don't have to (with the...
  17. Nick Zito

    Steel Shells at Rodgers OUtdoors

    SJ I laughed out loud at your comment, because it is too true. Also yes, pickle had to bounce.
  18. Nick Zito

    Steel Shells at Rodgers OUtdoors

    For those of you who used to shoot boss and can't afford to pay, or they just stopped making them, Roger's also had good prices on bismuth. Only downside was the goose shells are #1 which aren't legal in CT
  19. Nick Zito

    Pennsylvania hunting

    Agreed with this sentiment being from CT. Ducks need a rest, and I'd be in the doghouse if I could duck hunt Sundays. My only complaint is I'd like Sunday goose hunting in the September resident season so my daughters can get out there more. With our whacky custody schedule and often late cut...
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