My First Pintail

[Mitch B.]

Shot this Pintail in January. The story about it is that me and a friend of mine were on our way to a woods to go rabbit hunting and i saw some ducks in a puddle in a corn field. We got the binoculars on them and there was 12 pintails. We were trying to decide to try and stalk up on them and jump shoot them but there was no cover in the corn field. So we decided to put together a hunt for them in the morning. we drove about another mile and a bigger flooded corn field there was about 100 ducks mostly mallards but on one end there was a bunch of pintail. We got permission from the farmer and set up on the big flooded spot in the corn. just before sunrise there was a flock of about 30 Pintails that had circled over our decoys in the flooded cornfield about 3 times. Every time they passed they got closer and closer, but was still about 1 min before sunrise. on the last pass over us they were close enough to reach out and touch. I could literally feel the wing beat on my layout blind. As the first few landed my cell timer went off in my pocket and i was the only one lucky enough to get this Beauty. The other guy i was with got a Drake Mallard and the 3rd person didnt get anything. We were facing the sunrise and i only could see the silhouette of this LOOOONG tail. It has always been a dream of mine to shoot a mature pintail like this.

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[harry whitley]

Betcha all of us can remember our first sprig. Mine was awfully hard to come by too. Don't remember my first Sissy Drake but do remember my first big Canvasback, first Canada Goose even my first big Gadwall Drake. The first big Drake Pintail Ahhhh what a memory. He now resides in a place of honor on my Duck wall.

Another big milestone on your journey.
Congrats,
Harry

 

[Capt. John]

good story, I as well remember my first sprig. It really gets your blood going seeing those big long birds coming in. I love hunting them because you can do evreything right and sometimes they still fly right over! Way to go.