Our North Dakota Trip 2006

[Ryan Vande Griend]

This was our Trip to North Dakota this Year. We did pretty good. We got 113 ducks in 5 days. (4 Hunters) It was a blast!
On day 1 we sat in a funnel between a large body of water and a small slough where we saw many ducks the night before. We limited out.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e267/DiverDowner/ND-1.jpg
On day 2 we hunted a HUGE body of water. The shooting was quick due to fog, fog still we managed to take our birds.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e267/DiverDowner/nd-2.jpg
On day 3 we had a hard start. At noon we only had around 6 birds. Well we went to eat lunch an a small town resturaunt, and when we were done...a snow sqaul came, and the ducks just ate us up. It took us only an hour to fill the rest of our limit.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e267/DiverDowner/ND-3.jpg
On day 4, we tried the spot we did on the first day. I did end up shooting a very nice drake Redhead and green winged teal, but it wasnt very hot. It was a sunny warm day, so we decided it would be best to jump potholes for the afternoon. We ended up getting 14 birds this day. ( a couple HUGE flight mallards!!)
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e267/DiverDowner/nd-4.jpg

[Ryan Vande Griend]

Day 5 wasnt much different than day 4. We did a couple small stands and some jump shooting. 16 ducks and 1 goose finished off our trip.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e267/DiverDowner/nd-5.jpg

Cant wait til next year!!!

[Tom Matthews]

Great memories! List out the guys who were hunting with you and tell us which one you are.

[goosehunter64]

Great pic's DD. I'm glad you did so well and looks like you had a super time.

[Ryan Vande Griend]

alright Tom!!!! hehe
on the first Picture from left to right...my Uncle Andy(the game hog);) ...Me....My Dad...and my uncles Buddy chris.
Oh yea i forgot the most important part....the black lab is my dog...his name is Duke, and the Yellow is my uncles dog, Avery.

[Tom Matthews]

Your group looks like a fun bunch of guys to hunt with, and that is what it all about! Thanks for sharing the photos with us.

[Curt Wilson]

Thanks for sharing the story. This gives us all something to look forward to this coming fall.

[Travis Loving]

Gotta love them diver shoots!!!!

PROPS from one diver wacker to another:D

[Keath Wetovick]

Great pics, guys! I bet it was fun!

[Jeremy Kriese]

looks like some awsome hunts. congrats on the birds and thanks for sharing the pics!

[NDboy]

Conrats on the hunt next time you come up shoot me a pm and we could get together.

[Rick Frisch]

We all need to cherish the family hunts. As we grow up, we tend to grow apart from our families. We do more hunting with our friends and less with family. I still look forward the yearly pheasant hunt that I go on with my Dad and brothers. This is the only family hunt that any of us have time for any more. It makes the hunt that much more special.

Thanks,

[Mike Bard]

Looks like you guys had a great trip. Thanks for sharing the pictures.

[Tom Matthews]

That's a bunch of mush Rick.

Your father and brothers invited Travis, Eric, Christian and me on a dozen different hunts (they even invited Belding on 2 hunts), and they asked us not to tell you about any of them. We had a great time every time and piled up ducks, geese and pheasants. In fact, Eric and I hunted your stands at Bruce's two weekends that you stayed in Fargo, and I'm not going to tell you what we shot because you would cry.

Face it Rick, your family does not like you plain and simple.

[goosehunter64]

Ahhhhhhhh poor Rick.......will you be able to handle that reality.....LOL
Yo family sucks Rick.......LMAO.
Rick, I'll be your new family.....mon down.

[Josh Carda]

looks like an awesome hunt man congrats!

[Goosman]

nice pics, sounds like alot of fun, ya i can't wait till our next trip to ND either


Jon

[Duckslayercam]

Looks like ya had a great time. Where in nd were you hunting?

[Wayne Radcliffe]

Talk about a mixed bag. That's whats cool about duck hunting, you never know whats going to show up in the decoy's.

[T.J. Owens]

Ryan,

Thanks for sharing your hunt and pictures with us. Congratulations to all of you, looks like you had a great time!
Best of luck, T.J.

[Shoot-n-Release]

Tom

You swore to secrecy on the hunts!

Rick just lost his RESIDENT hunting privilege's today as far as I'm concerned. His over night trip to South Dakota just put him out of compliance with the N.Daks. 6 month resident hunting law. He'll have to buy NR lic. now. Yup [I've been keeping track,yeseree.] He's a man "without a state" for Resident status.


Bruce

[cody_lane2005@hotmail.com]

Hey, lol, looks like you had a good time,lol, looks like you killed over your limet to, I wouldn't have showed them pics, well the limet might be different where your hunting.

[weedsnager]

did you guys have a place to hunt mapped out before you left? or did you just go and hunt public land?

[Ryan Vande Griend]

hah we never shot over our limit. The limit is 6 ducks a peice. The 3ed day we have 27 birds b/c we got 3 mergansers on top of the 24 ducks ;)

We just go to a pothole dense area and hunt public land.
We did do a lot of lookin around on google earth to see which points would be good as for natural flyways ect...

[wooduck26]

WOW! You Quote is right on the money.."If its brown its down".............pretty easy to please you fellas.

[Rob Jepson]

Ryan,

Looks like a great trip. Next year please invite Rick Frisch as he does a lot of hunting by himself...

[iawaterfowler88]

Pretty sweet hunt man....something you'll never forget!

[mallard_King]

Hey nice pics, and looks like you had a good hunt.

[Rusty Hallock]

Ryan,



It looks like you guys had some great hunts. Thanks for posting the pictures.

[pcgoosehunter]

DD, When did you go go to NoDak? What dates? I was in South Dakota at the end of October and it was a week or two to early, all the birds were up North still. I shouldn't say that, we found a bunch of birds, but it was nearly as cold as it should have been for the end of October and the birds were all piled up in huge bodies of water.

[Ryan Vande Griend]

Mid October here
Hunted Central ND...the birds are everywhere you can see

[Travis Mueller]

I knew we could get him out of there if we tried hard enough. Hey looks like you had a great hunt last year and thanks for sharing. What part of North Dakota did you hunt?

[Craig Boyd]

Looks like y'all had an awesome time. Good shooting.

Got'a love them buffies.