Top Flight Watefowling
09-24-2006, 10:56 PM
Went out tonight, more guys out than I expected, Big Barage of 8-10 shots at the far east end of the marsh, 3 ducks sky high, shot at again by some hunters who think 100 yards is close for a duck, then they came to me and started using my secret decoy techniques that I came up with, LOCKED up........ "Might get a shot at a mallard I thought" for some reason they wanted in, my g/f was with me, They're cattail high cupped up, we had the sun to our backs when my heart stopped beating for 3 seconds.....here on 6 orange feet strecthed out were 3 shiny leg bands!!! 2 Drake Mallards and 1 Hen Mallard (which looked very drakeish) They were finally 15 yards out and said take'm... I shot the Hen first(closest one) which really looked drakeish, made a poor back end shot, she started gliding into thick cattails, so my 2nd shot I finish her off in air, dead. In the meantime of excitement, yay! i got a band, but I got 2 bands now 25 yards and flying up and away, yet frustrated knowing im not getting all 3 unless my g/f can get one, I pulled on a drake, click**** eject the 2nd shell Adam..... so rushing my self at him going 40 yards by now I took tail feathers off......................... never in 14 years of waterfowling have I seen that, im not going to complain but still will haunt me in my dreams watching 2 banded drake mallards fly away!.......g/f never came close to getting one. Thats the 4th Banded Mallard taken off the same pond since Saturday. Dont feel too proud holding a suzie up as my biggest pet peve is shooting hens, I always to try to avoid it, dead hens dont lay eggs, but it was banded.
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