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Post by davie6 on Jan 3, 2009 16:18:56 GMT -5
I was just wondering how everyone that duck/goose hunts has been doing lately. So far I have shot mostly mallards and blacks but today I shot my first ever redhead. It was a single drake that didn't fly as I was sneaking up on a huge raft of divers that landed down the shore from our setup. Yesterday was the first day I had ever seen divers up close as my partner shot 2 drake redheads. Good luck the rest of the season.
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Post by Itrapny on Jan 3, 2009 16:32:49 GMT -5
That's a beauty
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Post by trappintommer on Jan 3, 2009 17:50:37 GMT -5
Nice drake red head
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Post by 2labs on Jan 4, 2009 21:52:39 GMT -5
Nice drake redhead, we have been hitting the mallards & blacks in the cornfields.
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Post by Adirondack-Jim on Jan 5, 2009 15:38:26 GMT -5
Congratulations on your first redhead. There are some huge rafts of them on two of our local lakes. It's been a decent second season and we're doing our best to thin out the drake mallards.
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Post by davie6 on Jan 6, 2009 11:04:32 GMT -5
Thanks, this is a picture from the day before my original post.
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Post by 2labs on Jan 6, 2009 14:10:39 GMT -5
Nice, looks cold ??
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Post by fingerlakesfur on Jan 7, 2009 9:55:27 GMT -5
lots & lots of redheads around this year....
all the finger lakes have some huge rafts, haven't seen this many around since the '80's.
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Post by fingerlakesfur on Jan 12, 2009 11:08:01 GMT -5
I'd get that common merganser mounted
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Post by davie6 on Jan 12, 2009 14:52:36 GMT -5
If I remember properly, it was my partner who shot it and he shot it good. We ended up using it as a prebait for a few of my sets. Opening day we shot a great common drake and then the next day we shot a common hen. The two of them would have made a great mount but I'm on a college kid budget. lol. Maybe in a few years I'll have enough funds to mount a bird.
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Post by fingerlakesfur on Jan 12, 2009 21:04:20 GMT -5
I understand totally...I shot two banded redheads in 1985 when I was in college all I did was breast 'em out and call in the info...that would of made a mount of a lifetime now that I look back on it.
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Post by davie6 on Jan 16, 2009 17:07:16 GMT -5
I hear you there. I shot a banded Canada goose this September and just took the meat and band. Next year I am transferring to SUNY Cobleskill for their Wildlife Management program and I am pretty sure you learn how to mount waterfowl(hunt with an alumni from there) so I might get to cut some costs with mounting birds in the future. Also, I might be looking for some sample birds in the next few years.
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Post by Itrapny on Jan 16, 2009 17:16:34 GMT -5
They have a freeze dry machine there, or at least they used to when I went there back in the Fall of '82. Preety cool stuff, no need to skin the critter, just pop them in the machine for a while
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