Johnny, a friend, shot a button buck and left it at the house CHRISTMAS EVE.
It was small, so I butchered it myself.
I made sausage out of most of it. I'll post the recipe later. TJ gave me some ducks and geese. I made sausage with them too.
Bill and I shot the wood ducks again Saturday. We got 6- here's my three.
The Jersey hunter's got a buck on Dec 23rd. It had 4 points on one side but a problem with the other side. Ed hunted last Saturday and saw some small bucks and some does. But nothing he wanted to shoot. The snow geese are showing up now- maybe I can get some of them in the freezer.
I got some pictures of an 8 pointer and six pointer on my deer camera. .

snow

Bill and I shot the Woodys Saturday morning at his flood pond.
We got 4: three drakes and a hen. We could have gotten more but we always seemed to shoot at the same duck. The roads were already getting bad,it was a surprise that Bill got there. Muzzle loading season is on now. I've got to get serious about getting a nice doe for the freezer. I scraped some paths to the food plot so I could walk back to them and put a camera up at plot 1. Got some pictures of the doe I want for the freezer.
One of these will do just fine or this one maybe.
I'm getting tired of squirrel, rabbit and duck. I need some real food like a nice fat deer chop.

RABBIT HUNTING

On Saturday Rusty brought his three rabbit dogs over for some rabbit hunting.
John came along with him. We met Bill and his son Scott at the back lane at about 8:45a.m. The dogs had no problem finding rabbits at the cemetery - with all that cover thats where they were staying. We wanted to see and hear the dogs run so we took to the field for the hunt. The first rabbit was a crafty one. After an hour and a half run, I had missed him six times. Moving on, the next rabbit wasn't so lucky. John shot him in his lucky foot. That slowed him down enough for me to get him. By the time we got to the end of the back lane we had bagged a total of three rabbits. We moved on to the thicket at the wet lands. We got two more there. Went to the flood pond area and ended up with three more. The dogs did a great job with only one rabbit getting away (the one I missed six times!). I had my dogs with me working as flushers and retrievers. We ended up finding eight quail during this hunt - but did not shoot. Jay came along and supervised with his side kick grandson Dylan (Rusty's son). Hunt ended at 3:30 p.m. or so.

SOME SD PICTURES

Here's some pictures from my hunting trip.
this is george and katie
This Bill and Jinx
Here's Michael and Cheyenne
Katie loves pheasant.
Marvin blows this one out of the sky.

TWO SQUIRRELS AND A WOOD DUCK

Last Saturday morning the dogs and I found the covey of birds in the thicket by the wetlands. There were about 15 birds in it- Janey made the point. I only had a pistol and didn't shoot a bird - Janey didn't like it.
I caught a possum in the box trap that I set with the grand kids. I used the pheasant heads for bait. Caught a skunk first - then the possum.
In the afternoon went across the road and sat by the stream to wait for the wood ducks.
I sat by a big oak tree with lots of acorns on the ground. I was thinking they would fly in but one came swimming up to the tree. Janey got it up and I shot it. It fell out in the stream and Janey made a nice retrieve. Then the squirrels started working in the beech tree next to me. The first one was a long shot for my 20 with steel #4. I knocked him out to the ground and the dogs were able to catch him. That was exciting! Janey brought me that one. The next squirrel came out closer and he was dead when he hit the ground. Dakota retrieved him.
I cooked both squirrels in the crock pot with rice and gravy - very good meal.
Fried the the wood duck on the wood stove.

ON THE CAM

Found this on my new trail cam.

BACK

I got back from hunting in South Dakota 11-6-09 with lots a birds.
This is day
twos find.

Both dogs did great and I shot ok too. Janey's leg held up just fine.
Dakota stayed awake.
Before I left Ed got a 6 pointer,Ed needs to work on trigger control.
I saw 2 bucks Tuesday morning in the corn at my flood pond. Only a few ducks right now - I'm hoping they start coming in. Taylor next door has lots. We shot them last evening.
It was a blast!