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If the "free" guide was so good, he wouldn't have made his client get up at 4:00 a.m.! He'd have the Dekes in the field and take the client out there maybe 20 minutes before the birds showed up.

He'd also put the client on the "X".

O.K. lazy, here ya go.

Good thing you didn't see what happened when I shot that last goose...........

Standing on the slope of the ditch, leaning WWAAAYYYY back because I waited 'till the very last second to shoot, hoping that the birds would continue over you and Sam, when I shot the recoil shoved me off balance and I tipped over backwards into the ditch. The birds had actually flown overhead and were already past me. I couldn't pivot because I was standing on the steeply sloped bank of the ditch. I'm glad that it was full of snow and it wasn't full of water! Hey, at least the bird that I shot at fell and I didn't have to walk a half mile to finally shoot it to kill it.

Even tho we weren't on the "X" a few fell anyway.

My "guide" took his son on his first (or was this his 2nd?) waterfowl hunt. We were hunting in a chopped and chiseled cornfield. Really, really nice to walk in and drive over, especially when all the low areas were filled with snow. The farm manager said he'd run some of the equipment over places in the fields so we'd have a smooth place to drive. This is the second year that he's said that..... I think I'm going to show up there soon and tell him to give me the keys and I'll do it.

We had maybe 100+ Mallards land 481 yds away, and the main body of geese landed out more towards the center of the field, 150 yds away. (Laser rangefinders sure do come in handy!)

Here's his first Drake Mallard:


His first goose:


Here's a big goose that I dropped (when I tipped over):


Todays bag, minus one goose. We picked it up on the way out as it sailed a LONG ways (but it was dead right after it hit the ground. ):


Birds and gun:


And one with the mutt after I got home:


We had a pair of Pintails circling early in the day, but they wouldn't get low enough. I've been shooting too much with 1200 fps lead shot at clay birds and was over leading the birds by a bunch. If I would have been on my game there would have been more birds on the ground.

Not a bad morning for not even being on the "X". The geese didn't want to commit to the dekes for some reason. But, enough gave them a close enough look to knock down a few. Typically the landing gear was down, then retracted..