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Great Saturday hunt
« on: November 18, 2012, 11:45:45 AM »
Four of us decided to blow some cash and set up a guided hunt for some ducks on Saturday. First light brought the first wave and Rick and Scott dropped one each with their first shots. The hit to miss ratio would change drastically as the morning progressed. In the end we took 25 birds between us, mostly widgeon, one shy of out pintail limit, and four mallard drakes.

Now, I'm new to waterfowl and I have to say I respect anyone that can do well from a layout blind. I'm an old hand at grouse hunting having spent nearly 30 years chasing and bagging them. But that's on your feet. Laying down and busting out of the blind, shouldering the gun, picking your bird, and punching the button is not an easy task. My shot to kill ratio was somewhere around 5 to 1. Not all the birds would commit close in to the dekes. Shots were 25 to 30 yards on average. Nothing like a grouse flushing at 10 or 15 yards straight away...

But in the end, we got to see lots of birds, enjoy each others company, share a few laughs, (including me practicing my flinch when I forgot the safety) had some great food at the Empire Ale House, and put plenty of duck in the fridge.

This waterfowl thing could get habit forming... :)

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Re: Great Saturday hunt
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2012, 02:08:18 PM »
Sounds like fun Roper.

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Re: Great Saturday hunt
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2012, 02:21:28 PM »
Sounds great. Who was your guide and how did you like them? Any pics?
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Re: Great Saturday hunt
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2012, 02:38:25 PM »
mind telling us where u went and how much? im in the process of looking for a guided hunt. thnx

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Re: Great Saturday hunt
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2012, 02:59:14 PM »
Sounds like you had a good time. :tup:   

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Re: Great Saturday hunt
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2012, 06:05:51 PM »
We hunted with Banded Hunts Washington, our guide for the day was Don. They are up in Mt. Vernon off Mud Lake Rd. They had a special for four hunters, the third one was free. Regular price is $225 per hunter. This is our second hunt with them and we'll likely hunt with them again, none of us are set up for waterfowl. If the bug bites us bad enough we will gear up later. Most of us are retired or nearly retired.

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Re: Great Saturday hunt
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2012, 01:19:34 PM »
I'd like to try a guided hunt too, since I don't have anywhere to hunt now, but most guides have a two hunter minimum.

 


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