Another Brant Thread

Rutgers

Rutgers

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With all the interest in Brant the last couple days. Would there be any interest in an eastern shore brant hunt next winter? I'm Thinking we could meet up at Grayson Chesser's Holden Creek Gun Club. This year I couldnt make it and its really been eatin at me, but I have to say brant is my favorite bird to hunt, and you cant do much better for a place to stay than HCGC. Foods great and the stories go on forever and ever. This place oozes waterfowl history and tradition everywhere you look. Grayson has a real nice brant rig. Last year we hunted 2 parties. I asked Grayson if he had enough decoys and he said "Yup, we could split my rig in two and still have the two biggest rigs on the Eastern Shore" Not one of these done by noon guides services either. Hunt all day. Awesome place with a great staff. Might even be able to coax Cigar into coming by for dinner. Any interest?
 
Rutgers--If you want to shoot brant you could probably freelance it and do just as well. Just watch for the green pooper. Once they start eating the algae in the lagoons their rating as table fare decreases exponentially.-J
 
Brant are my favorite bird to hunt as well and Grayson is right up there on my "short list" as favorite carver, (and is first if you combine his personality, his stories, his accent, and his history with the quality of his carving), and I've wanted to hunt with him for a good while just never have....

I've carved at his place and love being there and Dawn, and staff, are superb cooks with an incredible Eastern Shore menu....(last time I was there I asked Grayson if he'd make Terrapin Stew and he replied, "welllllllll yeahhhhhhh I guess we could but you have to watch the Terapin get cook alive in the bottom of the stock pot if you're serious".....turns out that Terrapin stew starts out by dropping a live Terrapin in the bottom of a stock pot, make that an empty and smoking hot stock pot, where it scrambles around until it expires... I like good food but paying pennance for the pleasure in the form of watching a Turtle being cooked alive is more that I care to do so I changed the subject and that was the end of the discussion re: Terrapin Stew. Now Grayson may have just been shining me on so as not to have to go find a Terrapin, or he might just like Turtles as much as I do, or both, but I'm right pleased that I don't have that on my concious)...

Oooppss....help!!! I'm reminiscing and can't shut up.....so anyway count me in....find out how many people Grayson wants to mess with at one time and I'm guessing we'll have some more people fro the site that want in....Steve McCullough better make it and I can think of a couple of others as well....

Steve
 
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To be able to hunt with / meet Mr. Chesser and by Cigar, you must mean Cigar Daisy.. Would be enough to get Me out of Alaska, but I fear that a trip like that may have to wait for retirement... Not that far off. Anyone interested in the idea of taking a season and following the ducks from Alaska all the way to Old Mexico?
 
if you can't come to the mtn....then you just need to invite the mtn to you.....

Set us up at Cold Bay in the Aleutians and I'm betting you'll have enough folks that will send Brant decoys and come for a visit to put togehter one heck of a First Ever DHBP Aleutian Islands Invitational Brant Hunt....

I'm first on the list and I'll even state up fron that I'll leave half of the Bratn decoys I bring up behind for your rig...

Steve
 
for this thing where you will be picking Mike and I up and then taking us Brant hunting before the trip and Bluebill hunting afterwards.....thanks for the invite and glad to hear that you'll be joining us for the trip to Graysons, (now I won'thave to rent a car).....

Mike says he'll start working on your thank you gift this weekend....

Steve
 
Bob,

HHMMMMM, mayhaps I can find a way to convince my chief financial officer to allow us in labor to take a business trip to the Alutians. Not sure about that but could start on those brant decoys shortly.
Going to be in Anchorage in May anyway for the DU Banquet, any chance you'd be wandering in on that? Hoping to meet some boat captains and get a line on a hunt up there for the future.
 
"Just watch for the green pooper"

Amen to that!

Last two brant I shot this season were pooping green and I breasted and cooked them (fresh not frozen) -- they went right through me. I was racing to the bathroom on an hourly basis. I spoke to my hunting partner who shot his pair and he had the same issue.

First half of the season brant were yummy without the side affects.


I don't know about everyone's experience with brant this year but there seemed to be a high number of banded birds taken this year. My buddy and I each shot 2 banded brant (4 total) - I never get bands! It seems like the bands come in groups.

-Jack
 
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