Comments on: Duck Season Opener 2009

By: Xavier

Xavier — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:57:55 +0000

Opener is always a good one Hank!! I had to get up at 12:45am, fill the coffee thermos, pick up my buddy and make it to the check station by 3am. We didn’t get on in the morning, so we went back to the truck to sleep a little more. We don’t have many options in SoCal you know. Woke up and I made a full Irish Breakfast. Finally got on at 1pm and shot until 3pm. It was my anniversary, so I had to get home at a decent hour! I put in for 6 NorCal refuges – fingers crossed.

By: Live to Hunt

Live to Hunt — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:35:46 +0000

Hank, sounds like most of us on the opener. I had to work Saturday (grrr), but me and the hunting partner headed out Sunday. Shot 5 greenheads between us, but overall very, very slow. Hard to duck hunt when the morning is so still and quiet. Not much shooting around us either. Good job.

By: Sporting Days

Sporting Days — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:49:17 +0000

Hank….I hunted Yolo’s Blind 10 solo on Sunday. I should have limited out — Yolo was thick with ducks for the first hour of shoot time, mostly spoonies and teal as far as I could tell. I was set up all wrong for the morning flight, however, and forgot my spinning wing. But managed to readjust and scratch down four greenwing teal by the time morning flight dried up. It was fun. Ponds looks great.

Looks like your shooting benefited from all the Canada action. That makes a big difference — just to have that much real-world practice on actual ducks. Your season is off to a great start.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:51:42 +0000

Hank, that’s because I only put three pellets in those handloads.

By: Desmond

Desmond — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:17:30 +0000

Good luck on grouse hunting the leaves have been really holding on making for some rough hunting.

By: hank

hank — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:07:52 +0000

Sporting Days: How many? You limit out? See any divers? And what pond were you in at Yolo?

Josh: I’ll get on that .410 thing. But seriously, that snipe was more like 85 yards out. Really impressed you hit it with only one pellet to the head, too…

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:33:08 +0000

Holly, I liked that one, too.

Hank, wasn’t I supposed to sign some form of waiver for that photo? Kidding. Hopefully, you’ll get some extra hits from people with an ugly fetish.

You can add that the snipe was 55 yards out, and I hit it with my .410. It’s not true, but you can add it.

By: Holly Heyser

Holly Heyser — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:02:27 +0000

“Specklebelly geese call to each other with a high-pitched ululation; it sounds like they each ate a small Bedouin woman.”

Nice!

By: Sporting Days

Sporting Days — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:08:52 +0000

Congratulations on a great Sunday shoot. That’s a fine strap of ducks. I hunted Yolo on Sunday and it was a gw teal and spoonie fest.