Jay Anglin
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Despite the August like weather and a grueling 7 days battle with a bumper crop of mosquitoes, we did pretty darn good. We broke Adonis in on several water hunts and one memorable field hunt, taking Mallard, Pintail, Widgeon, Gadwall, Shoveler, Blue and Green Winged Teal as well as Redhead and Canvasback over him. Lots of Canadas and a fair number of snows/blues and a Ross also came into the spreads that Adonis graced.
Amazingly enough Adonis almost ended up on the IR when he took a dinger on a gear crammed garage floor as I was attaching an anchor chord. If you look closely his tail has an abrasion on one side and his forehead has small spot of scuffed paint. So...I got that over with. Sorry Pete...I cringed too! But in my view he's more perfect than he ever was now!
Adonis' first day was a big one!
Our host, firefighter Wendell. Yes we wore him out on his Holiday...
Heel UP!
Matt had a good morning...his wall bound trophy Eaglehead was the highlight
The ever present and curiously incontinent Holstein #875 made a move for Adonis but I ran her off....LOUDLY.
Adonis is way in the background. I was very careful to separate him from the spinner which came in handy to center the birds in the windless and sweltering conditions. Just so you know.....
Deuce turns two in a couple weeks....
Adonis leading a pack of plastic greenheads into the kill hole
From left: Eric, Spence, Cooper, Matt and Deuce.
Sadly, we left Matt's yellow Gunner at home in Indiana as he was not feeling well. Matt's wife was forced to put Gunner down during our trip and he found out at the end of a great morning of shooting...Matt harvested his first Ross and cackling geese that morning. When I started to take photos I noticed a Canada was wearing a band that somebody had missed. I was fairly certain it came from Matt's pile of birds but to be fair four of us drew shells out of a hat(the 5th hunter, local bilingual farmer Dean opting out as he didn't have any use for "them things eh" but held the "chapeu" for us). Our host Wendell drew the oddball empty and immediately gave the band to Matt. It wasn't much but we all agreed that it would maybe cheer him up and give him a memento to remember Gunner by. Sort of a dedication to his young dog who succumbed to kidney failure way before his time. Banded in Iowa in July of '08 in the lower right of the photo. I realize that this sort of photo isn't the norm here but we didn't go to Manitoba to save shells.
A fine drake pintail for mid October...
One of the last birds of the trip harvested by Eric was also banded. This greenhead fell only a few feet from Adonis on our last morning.
It was exhausting but we had some great times and I brought home plenty of prime grain fed duck and goose to feed the Anglin family.
Adonis is headed to Tom Scholberg in Minnesota. I rolled past Brooklyn Center yesterday morning at 3:30 am and thought it was kind of funny that Adonis was going to end up in Chicago four times in two weeks! Good Luck Adonis!
Amazingly enough Adonis almost ended up on the IR when he took a dinger on a gear crammed garage floor as I was attaching an anchor chord. If you look closely his tail has an abrasion on one side and his forehead has small spot of scuffed paint. So...I got that over with. Sorry Pete...I cringed too! But in my view he's more perfect than he ever was now!
Adonis' first day was a big one!
Our host, firefighter Wendell. Yes we wore him out on his Holiday...
Heel UP!
Matt had a good morning...his wall bound trophy Eaglehead was the highlight
The ever present and curiously incontinent Holstein #875 made a move for Adonis but I ran her off....LOUDLY.
Adonis is way in the background. I was very careful to separate him from the spinner which came in handy to center the birds in the windless and sweltering conditions. Just so you know.....
Deuce turns two in a couple weeks....
Adonis leading a pack of plastic greenheads into the kill hole
From left: Eric, Spence, Cooper, Matt and Deuce.
Sadly, we left Matt's yellow Gunner at home in Indiana as he was not feeling well. Matt's wife was forced to put Gunner down during our trip and he found out at the end of a great morning of shooting...Matt harvested his first Ross and cackling geese that morning. When I started to take photos I noticed a Canada was wearing a band that somebody had missed. I was fairly certain it came from Matt's pile of birds but to be fair four of us drew shells out of a hat(the 5th hunter, local bilingual farmer Dean opting out as he didn't have any use for "them things eh" but held the "chapeu" for us). Our host Wendell drew the oddball empty and immediately gave the band to Matt. It wasn't much but we all agreed that it would maybe cheer him up and give him a memento to remember Gunner by. Sort of a dedication to his young dog who succumbed to kidney failure way before his time. Banded in Iowa in July of '08 in the lower right of the photo. I realize that this sort of photo isn't the norm here but we didn't go to Manitoba to save shells.
A fine drake pintail for mid October...
One of the last birds of the trip harvested by Eric was also banded. This greenhead fell only a few feet from Adonis on our last morning.
It was exhausting but we had some great times and I brought home plenty of prime grain fed duck and goose to feed the Anglin family.
Adonis is headed to Tom Scholberg in Minnesota. I rolled past Brooklyn Center yesterday morning at 3:30 am and thought it was kind of funny that Adonis was going to end up in Chicago four times in two weeks! Good Luck Adonis!
