Hit myself with a mallard.

Yukon Mike

Yukon Mike

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I was out pass shooting ducks coming off a field this morning and I nailed myself with a big greenhead coming straight down. It friggin' hurt! The birds were coming in high over head. My first shot connected and as I turned to try for a second bird I saw the first one just out of the corner of my eye with enough time to flinch so it missed my head but nailed me in the ankle as I dodged/ fell over.

Growing up in MB hunting without a dog us kids quickly caught on to trying to drop birds in the stubble rather than the water. As we got better and more experienced we started trying to see how close we could drop birds on each other, you know, easier fetching up. My buddy Herb even brought a ball glove with him one morning. I remember him running for a falling bird but can't recall if he got it.

Is there a first time pin for injuring yourself with a duck? Anyone else ever hit themselves? Didn't Al Paul put a sailer goose through some guy's front window of his house?

Mike
 
I think John Bourbon told me about a politician some years back being killed on the Eastern Shore (MD) by a falling goose?
 
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If falling gees will kill a politician, The I have a few I want to invite hunting geese with me.


Sorry to hear you hurt yourself but your story does put a smile on my face picturing the scene.
 
I think John Bourbon told me about a politician some years back being killed on the Eastern Shore (MD) by a falling goose?
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I remember a story in the paper in the late 1960s or early 1970s of this happening in Maryland. As I remember it hit him in the side of the head and broke his neck.

I was hunting with two brothers in Saskatchewan about 10 years ago and they arranged their layout blinds head to head. One brother shot a white-front that hit the other brother's gun in the receiver and smashed into his face. It knock him out and gave him a black eye. Just glad it didn't have a exposed broken wing bone or it would have been even worse.
 
Mike, sorry but I actually laughed out loud. As a teenager I took my younger brother out for his first hunt in some flooded timber. He was sitting on a log with his back to a tree when a nice mallard came by and he managed to connect. He had no place to go and with the incoming mallard headed right at him he tried to roll out of the way. The bird clipped him on the shoulder and he ended up in water. We often laugh about his first duck hunting experience.
 
We've had them hit the boat/drop in the boat but luckily never hit anyone.
Glad you are ok, but we all did get a laugh at your expense. :)
 
I had a similar situation a few years ago. I had a friend out for the first time. .and two brant came over the boat and I dropped one and it hit him right in the chest. ..knocking the wind out of him......After he caught his breath we laughed or ass off.....needless to say he was hooked on Duck Hunting
 
I caught a bird once until I heard about the guy that had a broken wing bone go THROUGH his hand! Never doing that again!
 
Chip, that very thing happened to me in 1957 (at age 16) when I was hunting with a high school friend and his dad at their duck slough in western Minnesota. I shot a greenwing teal and as it came towards me, even yelled to Tuck and his dad to watch me! Geez, talk about being a dumb kid---I sure was. Yes, I caught it and should have screamed but didn't! I had to pull the broken wing bone out of the palm of my right hand. It hurt like a bugger---

Mike, I'm glad you were all right. It could have been worse.
Al
 
I dropped a Canada Goose on my buddy one time.


It was years ago. We were hunting geese in a cornfield on a cold day late in the season. Standing in the un-cut corn, we had a spread out in front of us. A small flock came in and circled. They came right over us at about twenty yards straight up. My buddy yells something like-"no time like the present", we stand up and let loose. I pull on a bird, squeeze the trigger, bird folds, swing on another just in time to hear a scream next to me. Come to find out, just like you Mike, he was aiming at a bird just in time to see mine falling at him. He turned just in time to have the bird scrape down his front and land on his feet.


Luckily in our case, no one was hurt. I don't see him anymore, but I sure have fun telling that story.


Jon


PS, I dropped a Wood Duck where it landed up in the crotch of a tree a few years ago. Try doing that twice!
 
many years ago, while picking up the decoys we saw a lone goose angling across the marsh, coming right at us. I said he was going to be too high, but the guy I was hunting with disagreed. Sure enough the bird was losing altitude as he came. I was next to the canoe, my friend was out wrapping cords tossing the decoys in. As the goose came in, I slowly picked up the gun and dropped a shell in, as it came in I swung up and cleanly killed it. As it started its fatal trajectory i could see it was headed for Tom. I yelled a warning and he tried to get out of the way.. You all know how easy it is to run in water in waders. He gained just enough distance as the bird hit the water almost just where he had been standing. The goose missed him, the large splash of water from where it hit did not.
 
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A few years ago I went out on a cloudy, rainy afternoon to hunt a local lake. This was the kind of day the geese would come in to roost before shooting hours ended. I was set up on a wooded point in the lake. I dropped a canada goose a with an overhead shot. I was afraid my dog would try to catch it on its way down. It crashed trough some tree branches. I gave my dog a couple of sit commands as the goose fell though the trees and landed with a big thud. It would not have turned out for him if he had tried to catch it.

Tom
 
I believe it was Jimmy Carter's commerce secretary that was killed while goose hunting in a pit on the Eastern Shore.


John
 
I'll tell you what, after hearing your stories and the fact that my ankle is still sore I'm sure not going to try to intentionally hit anyone anymore.

The other night The Buns dodged a "dead in the air" mallard coming at her that would have seriously hurt that little dog.

I hit a dog with a falling snow goose one time as he was running for another one and it just flattened him. It was coming down like an auto rotating helicopter so it didn't hit him as hard as it could, but still, it must have hurt him.

Does anyone sell camo hardhats? : )

Mike
 
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