The Back Meadows

[Pucknut]

I try to keep a number of spots in mind when I hunt, because you never know how things are going to turn out. Today I went to a water body that always seems to have birds, but it not easy to hunt. Between ice and a loss of cover I didn’t have any good options, but tried to make the best of it. Ended up finding enough grass to brush up with and got my decoys down to the waters edge. Shot one black duck before the decoys were high and dry. Retrieving that duck from the mud might be my next entry for stupid things I’ve done hunting.

[Merkel]

Congratulations- if you had fun and stayed safe, it was worth it.

[Rusty]

 Retrieving that duck from the mud might be my next entry for stupid things I’ve done hunting.

 

 

 

Congratulations on your duck and your perseverance Pucknut.     

[Pucknut]

 

 

Congratulations on your duck and your perseverance Pucknut.  

 

Thanks Rusty. This spot is an old borrow location for highway construction. Over the decades it has slowly filled with silt which makes it a little treacherous to walk into. Cover was bad enough at the end of the season that I started carrying a bag of cut meadow grass out with me.

[bob kudile]

you need a sneakbox or longer lines on your decoys that reach the grass line. shoot the black over dry land, and have a rolled up chicken wire with burlap carry in blind and pond box.