In less than 60 day---guess what?

Al Hansen

Al Hansen

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Yes, I have had this disease ever since I figured out a way to get my first shotgun and then formulated a plan to have three wonderful duck hunters help me persuade my parents that duck hunting was a very good sport for me to be involved in. It began when I was 12 years old and then about 1 year later, in October of 1954, I shot my first duck which just happened to be a bluewing teal.

I am still afflicted with this wonderful disease of waterfowling and hope to continue it as long as I can.

This is what I am dreaming of now.


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It seems that I am trying to fast forward the next two months. For me, there is nothing in this world to compare with the chance to sit in a duck blind with a retriever at my side. To once again be able to watch the world wake up and take a deep breath of fresh invigorating air with familiar odors that are only generated by a marsh or slough. I yearn for that opportunity to witness all those magical moments that satisfies my duck hunting heart. Some of them would be; listening to whistling wings but yet too dark to see them, watching the last stars fade away, maybe hearing a family of coyotes howling just before the opener and then by chance just happening to glance at my pup sitting their so stoically until that instant that his radar kicks in for the first time with some "incoming" ducks. Thus the season will begin for both of us---
Al


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Ice always wanted to hunt sheet water like that. Season is soon upon us. Sept early goose is coming fast.
 
I love the early teal season. here we also get the bonus wood ducks. This will probably be the first year since I began hunting in 2000 that I will miss the early season. But I'm not complaining since if I do, that'll mean I'm in MT hunting for sage grouse or SD hunting prairie chickens....
 
Rod, New Mexico has about double the amount of rain that is normal for this time of the year. Everything is very green. I stopped to get some oil for my chainsaw and the guy who owns the shop can't put his Stihl weed whackers together fast enough. Told me they are selling like hot cakes.

The area I hunt does have water but I can tell you it won't be there when teal season opens if we don't get any more rain. I'm sure glad the monsoon season is here.
Al
 
I check, Paul, and found out that I had taken these shots during the teal season of 2012. I know the farmer who irrigated his hay field and forgot to turn off the water soon enough. I did have fun because I had already taken my limit not too far from his place. So, I grabbed my camera, sat there and became a shutter bug--- one of my favorite things to do.
Al
 
Hey Dani, if you get wood ducks as a bonus, where do they go when they leave your area. I just assumed that any ducks getting to Florida would stay there until the reverse migration began in January.

Best of luck on that upland game hunt you will be on. Either one would be like a dream coming true. I will look forward to that post.
Al
 
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