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Pat Gregory

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Ordinarily I don't have ducks mounted. Just not my cup of tea. However, this season brought a few special birds I couldn't pass up. Shooting a banded scaup was very special for me having banded as many as we have. Also, shooting a Barrows Goldeneye in our part of the country is very rare even if it was an immature or a hybrid.

To balance the mount out, I added a lovely little ruddy hen I actually shot on the wing... Don't get to do that often. On the shelf I embellished it with a few old calls, a shot shell box and a Ben Schmidt miniature scaup decoy.

A friend of mine here in town did the taxidermy work. I thought he did an excellent job. Everytime I look at it, it brings wonderful memories of time with my friends doing what we love to do...

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Nice Mount... aside from the beauty, the visual reminder of memories of the hunt are what make mounts so great!
 
Great idea.

Very good way to keep the memory of a special day fresh.

I've never seen a barrows in our area and I've been hunting them since I was 14.

mike
 
Pat do you have a picture(s) of the Goldeneye fresh dead. That birds "not right" for a Barrows. Has the scapulars of a hybrid.

Neat mount. I've alays liked dead mounts


Steve
 
Phil.
that's cool, I wondered if barrows ever made it to the Mississippi flyway.
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we've shot oldsquaws, scoters and even decoyed a ruddy shellduck but I guess I'll have to travel for a barrows.
 
Unfortunantly I did not shoot the Barrows... another guy hunting with me shot a white wing scooter on Pool 9... I have not shot squaws on Pool 9.. but I have seen them.
 
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