All The Great Hunting

Dan's  a little busy with school, so the girl gets to do all the blogging for him.  I'll try to make it as manly as possible.

This was the cloudy day on the 8th of October, and Dan went out hunting after or before school, I don't remember.

That night he brings home this HUGE goose.

The next day was my first time going out to the duck blind and Dan had already been 4 times! He is loving the duck hunt this year.  I shot some shells, but didn't hit anything.  We had some mallards come in low and Dan and Sam each got one.  They called in some geese and Sam got a shot off at one.  It slowing descended to the ground and had to go through a few fields to finally get it.  Here's Sam with his price goose.

That day, they brought home one goose and two hen mallards.

Dan had a great idea of going out on the 12th and sleeping over in his car.  He shot his first drake of his life and he was pretty excited.  I've never shot a drake mallard, so this was cool.  Sam and I drove out that night to take him pizza for dinner and some hot chocolate. 

The next day he brought home a hen pintail (I think that's what it is!) He can correct it if he'd like.  There have been so many birds and types this season that I can't keep them all straight.

On the 15th, I was able to go out to the blind.  Sam went to work later in the day, so all three of us made a day out of it.  Dan had left out the decoys over night trying to get something to stay.  Among the goose decoys that morning, there was a goose in the mix of the nine decoys.  Sam just talked to it the whole time.  We had 20 minutes to wait until shooting time and I had the first shot.  I pulled up and shot and killed it with one shot.  My first goose ever and it was a great morning.  That was all we went home with, but Sam had to get to work, so we didn't spend a lot of time out there. 

On the 16th we were at my brothers, and we went hunting that morning on some private property. Wow the ducks down there are something fierce!  They sound like airplanes coming across the sky.  It was the coolest sound ever.  I only shot two shells the whole day.  I think I was a little dumbfounded and just wanted to take it all in.  Dan and my bro took down quite the variety.  They shot wigeon (drake and hen), green wing teal, cinnamon teal, and a mallard.  It was an awesome day. You can see their spread on the lawn.

Here's a close up of the drake wigeon.  He's a cool looking duck. 

As far as other adventures, over the weekend Dan and Sam went out in a rubber raft to try hunting the river.  They were unsuccessful there, but did see some wood ducks.  They went to the pond that night and each shot one.  I believe Sam shot a mallard drake and Dan shot a mix of something.  It was a nasty smelling black duck that was a cross of a hen mallard and something.  We didn't eat the meat because it smelled so bad. 

We are headed out in the morning, thus why I'm updating now.  I'll just forget more details because tomorrow will just add more to the brain.

Dan's sister got a nice buck and so did his dad, so great job!  We'll try to get those on here too.  I don't have those pictures on my laptop.

Happy Hunting! Sorry it probably wasn't manly enough.