Favorite pictures part 2

Mike Sheppard

Mike Sheppard

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These shots were taken on what may have been the best day of scaup hunting I have experienced since I was a kid in the 1970's.

The birds just would not stop decoying, often the flock would just go around and try again after being shot at.

These are older pictures taken with my first digital camara, I wish it would have had more resolution. I would love to be able to zoom in on these birds.
Check out the one over the layout boat, he is nearly flying upside down.







We stayed for awhile after we shot our birds and probably had 10000 birds land in a raft nearby, many of which swung over our decoys on the way.
No thats not a sleeper decoy, Its a young bluebill with poor judgment


 
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Kyle - He's sitting on my 13.5 foot Four River Layout Boat. Also on that shore are a 13ft. Fiberdome Widgeon as well as a 12 foot Carstens Pintail. Shot was taken during early teal season at our duck club. We were shooting doves off our levee in the afternoon. Had a good dove shoot by the way... Pat
 
Mike, thanks for sharing. Odd that the birds worked so well on a sunny day...our best giant raft of bluebills hunt was on the lower St. Marys by Lime Island;birds would jump and wheel around for awhile on ever snow squall that passed through over the main raft.
 
I believe the birds were just ariving exausted on the back side of a big cold front.
first we would see them way way high then 10 minutes later they would be circling around and would just dump in when they saw the decoys.
after we shot our birds and let them land they would soon tuck their head under their wing and nap.

since then I've always tried to hunt after the first big wind of November just as it let's up.
A couple of times it led to spectacular hunts.
 
Tom - He is a heck of a little retriever. I'm on the floor at least 1 hour each night with our two doing the play thing. Yorkies like their time being challenged and exercised. Pat
 
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