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Joe Fladeland
10-22-2006, 08:19 PM
My buddy and I headed out to some Missouri River backwater to see if we could get a nice Greenhead to put on the wall. When we got out there we kicked up about a hundred Gadwalls and threw out 2 dozen RealImage Mallards with 8 Over Size Feeder butts. While we were hunting we had a couple deer hunters come close to us and one of them just sat on a fallen tree right across the creek from us. The other hunters kept walking and they planned on pushing the deer to this guy on the log. I figured this was't going to work very well considering we were set up and shooting ducks right there. We just kept dropping ducks out of the sky and this guy just sat there the entire time. Right after we retrieved a drake Gadwall we noticed somethings running on the otherside of the creek. It took my buddy and I a few seconds to finally recognize what they were but 3 moose were making their across the creek. 2 cows followed by a bull. We were amazed at what we were looking at because we had no clue that moose came down this far into NoDak. We ended this exciting hunt with 6 Gadwalls, 1 BW teal, and 2 GW teal that my buddy is going to mount. It was a great way to end a 5 day weekend.

Moose tracks in comparison to a 3 inch shotgun shell.
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The evening's bag.
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The drake Green-winged teal my buddy is getting mounted along with a hen GW.
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Cory Johnson
10-22-2006, 08:24 PM
Sweet, sounds like a great time. Congrats!

Drew Allen
10-22-2006, 08:32 PM
Nice job Joe. You have been whacking some birds lately!

Eric Wolf
10-22-2006, 09:02 PM
Congrats! I just shot a green wing and a wigeon yesterday that i am going to have mounted. Those are really nice looking birds!

Craig Boyd
10-22-2006, 09:46 PM
Nice shoot Joe!

I like the log shot.

Rich Good
10-23-2006, 07:48 AM
Nicely done Joe, looks like you had a great time !

David Rearick
10-23-2006, 08:53 AM
Nice!

Aaron Hitchins
10-23-2006, 12:55 PM
Congrats Joe!

I love how you have the ducks on that log, and I am especially fond of that Greenwing Drake picture

Keep it up...

Aaron

Duckslayercam
10-23-2006, 10:11 PM
Very nice.