ONE COVEY FOUND

On my lunch time walk, Janey went on point and I flushed 5 quail. Last year at this time I had 2 coveys of 15 or more.I'm still hoping to find more but I know last winters snow was really hard on them. Their seems to be lots of rabbits and squirrels.I've only killed one squirrel and that was when I was waiting for the doves to start flying. I got Mikes' friend Matt to help me skin it. The doves that day came all at once. Bill is waiting here with his retriever Bear. His son Scott was using Dakota for his retrieves. This guy was in the box trap at the wetlands. They eat a lot of quail eggs and sometimes eat the birds on the nest.
Some of The Jersey guys came down last night for muzzle loading that starts today.
They made a crock pot full of Kielbasa. I plugged it in for them on my lunch break - they were staying in their stands all day.They were still partying when I went to bed. Hope they not sleeping in their stands when that big buck comes by.

EARLY DUCK SEASON

This Saturday was opening day for ducks.Rick and TJ were at my house at 6 a.m.
The ducks have been roosting on the wetlands at night and leaving every day at first light. Most all the ducks take the same flight path every day coming and going.
Rick and I hid in the weeds along the back lane about 3 or 4 hundred yards from the wetlands. TJ hid back by the flood pond.
We were all in place by 6:35 and shooting hour was 6:45. The first ducks, most of them mallards, came across a few minutes early. I waited till the first big group of wood ducks came and the duck shoot was on. I was shooting my double barrel 20 and emptyed it five times. Rick and TJ were shooting 12 gauge autos. The ducks were all gone by us in five minutes. We got 7 ducks total. TJ shot the best: 2 ducks with 2 shots.Rick got 3Rick and I walked to the flood pond and 1 woody got up out of it. I killed it, giving me 2. That duck fell in the pond and Janey retrieved it.We hung around the pond a few minutes in case more would show up but none did .Took some pictures.Then went back and cooked breakfast.Rick brought waterfowl sausage that he made and TJ brought fresh eggs from his home flock. After breakfast we cleaned the ducks. I had to take more pictures of them. You can see why the Wood Ducks are considered the most beautiful duck. They are also the best eating duck.

BOBWORLD

Counting ducksEating good stuffEating healthy stuffWines - healthyGreat hunting dogsMore good food.Drinking beer in moderation of course. Strange StuffFunny Stuff

SMART DEER SAD COON

On my ride around the farm last evening I found this guy in my box trap at the wetlands.He's a young raccoon and looked really sad. After relocating him I went and sat in the tree stand by the flood pond. A doe and two fawns came from the field towards me but before they got very close she winded me and they went back to the field. I've been counting the wood ducks leaving the wetlands. I counted 150. I had a lot of doves in the sun flowers the other evening, looked like 100. We're planning on a dove shoot Saturday. Got this picture off the camera behind the stand at the flood pond. I don't think he has a tail. I got this picture in the corner at the end of the hedge row behind the cabin. I got a lot of pictures of does there.The next time I go deer hunting I'm going to sit in the stand in that corner.I put a camera on the other side of the woods under a big oak thats dropping lots of acorns. Janey's watching a squirrel.I need to start putting some of them in my freezer.

SATURDAYS DEER

The dogs and I sat in the big stand Saturday morning. Janey was watching out the west side and spotted a doe and her fawn. The deer went across the corn to the grass field. They stayed out of cross bow range but I wouldn't shoot a doe the with a fawn.We stayed in the stand till 7:30 a.m.,then rode down to dads and got coffee. There were seven deer out in his bean field, all does and fawns.I went to the tree stand in the corner behind Brian's house at 5:00. A little after 6 I saw a doe out in the grass. Something spooked her and she came running towards me. She got about thirty yards from me and I watched her for awhile. This could be the doe here in this picture. She looked to be an older doe and by her self so I went for the kill.I put the middle dot in my scope on her heart and squeezed the trigger.She jumped and ran off.
Went and checked for blood and found nothing but my arrow - not even a hair on it.
Some how I missed. I got back up in my stand and could see about 7 does in the clover field. Stayed till dark but nothing came back in range.