Mark W
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Overall - a good opener. Rain mostly held off except for a very light sprinkle on Sunday just as we were about to call it a day. I guess we were pretty lucky as it rain HARD on Saturday evening and it rained most of the way home. Both days were overcast and very windy which was a good thing.
We had 3 in our group and Saturday we filled out with teal and only had teal buzz through the dekes. Nothing else. Would have been a slow day without them around. Even the other folks who were with us but hunting in different spots only got teal and all groups did well. Sunday pretty much the same as Saturday except it took us a little while longer to fill out.
As we leaving our spot on Sunday we looked over to an area that had quite a bit of shooting that morning. I got out the binoculars and saw a group of vehicles parked on a WPA with campers, tents and an Ice Castle. Grill out back and a laundry line to dry clothes. I was thinking to myself, "I sure hope a CO doesn't drive by as camping on WPA's is against Fed regulations" (or at least I thought this was the case). After we were packed up we decided we were going o do some driving around. We drove by the camping spot and sure enough, there was already a CO present. Stopped to chat after letting him know this wasn't our stuff. Asked how much trouble these guys were in and he said since it was a WPA they were in violation of a fed reg and that they were in trouble. He had them on a spotting scope and knew where they were. He took pics of everything and was just going to wait them out. I asked what kind of excuse he thought they were going to provide and he went down the list of things he had already heard over the weekend - pretty funny. So, what is going to happen to these guys - thoughts? I suppose it depends on their attitude when confronted I bet.
Had a gun issue this weekend and I don't know how worried I should be. Shot a the first duck that came in and tried to shoot at it's partner and my gun wouldn't shoot. Didn't take long to find the pin that holds in trigger assembly had fallen out and now the gun wouldn't shoot. Since no one had a spare pin, nor nail nor anything that would work, I found a tree branch I cold shove in there. That lasted one shot and my gun was back t inactive. Took out the handy dandy multi tool and cut down a spent shell and fashioned a new pin. Now I was ready to go and naturally the ducks had stopped flying by then. During this improvision time, I was searching everywhere for the pin with no luck. I bet my hunting buddies that I would find it probably as we were packing up. Want to guess what happened, yup, found it sitting less than 1 foot from where I was sitting. I swear I looked there and everywhere with no luck when the ducks were flying but as soon as we are done, the pin shows up.
So, how the heck did the pin fall out and is this something that is going to happen again? Something a gunsmith can fix or is it an expensive fix?
Pictures to come later.
Mark W
We had 3 in our group and Saturday we filled out with teal and only had teal buzz through the dekes. Nothing else. Would have been a slow day without them around. Even the other folks who were with us but hunting in different spots only got teal and all groups did well. Sunday pretty much the same as Saturday except it took us a little while longer to fill out.
As we leaving our spot on Sunday we looked over to an area that had quite a bit of shooting that morning. I got out the binoculars and saw a group of vehicles parked on a WPA with campers, tents and an Ice Castle. Grill out back and a laundry line to dry clothes. I was thinking to myself, "I sure hope a CO doesn't drive by as camping on WPA's is against Fed regulations" (or at least I thought this was the case). After we were packed up we decided we were going o do some driving around. We drove by the camping spot and sure enough, there was already a CO present. Stopped to chat after letting him know this wasn't our stuff. Asked how much trouble these guys were in and he said since it was a WPA they were in violation of a fed reg and that they were in trouble. He had them on a spotting scope and knew where they were. He took pics of everything and was just going to wait them out. I asked what kind of excuse he thought they were going to provide and he went down the list of things he had already heard over the weekend - pretty funny. So, what is going to happen to these guys - thoughts? I suppose it depends on their attitude when confronted I bet.
Had a gun issue this weekend and I don't know how worried I should be. Shot a the first duck that came in and tried to shoot at it's partner and my gun wouldn't shoot. Didn't take long to find the pin that holds in trigger assembly had fallen out and now the gun wouldn't shoot. Since no one had a spare pin, nor nail nor anything that would work, I found a tree branch I cold shove in there. That lasted one shot and my gun was back t inactive. Took out the handy dandy multi tool and cut down a spent shell and fashioned a new pin. Now I was ready to go and naturally the ducks had stopped flying by then. During this improvision time, I was searching everywhere for the pin with no luck. I bet my hunting buddies that I would find it probably as we were packing up. Want to guess what happened, yup, found it sitting less than 1 foot from where I was sitting. I swear I looked there and everywhere with no luck when the ducks were flying but as soon as we are done, the pin shows up.
So, how the heck did the pin fall out and is this something that is going to happen again? Something a gunsmith can fix or is it an expensive fix?
Pictures to come later.
Mark W
