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Offline seth30

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Scoters lets see em!
« on: November 12, 2013, 07:14:26 AM »
Got this Surf Scoter on Sunday and its going on the wall :tup:  Looking at Google search for mounts there are very few and I am torn between getting a swimming or diving pose.  I shot the duck on the water and he dove about 5 times.  If you guys have any scoters that are mounted please post the pics to help me in my choice. :tup:
Rather be dead than cool.
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Re: Scoters lets see em!
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2013, 07:19:30 AM »
Seth,
Congrats. Try looking here(www.birdmanstudios.com) for ideas as he should have a few.

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Re: Scoters lets see em!
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2013, 07:24:16 AM »
Nice looking bird!  Glad to see that your plan came together. 

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Re: Scoters lets see em!
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2013, 07:30:49 AM »
Nice looking bird!  Glad to see that your plan came together.
Thanks if it wasnt for this website it would not have happened :tup:
Rather be dead than cool.
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Re: Scoters lets see em!
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2013, 08:07:33 AM »
Washington Muley thanks for the webiste it has a great deal of pictures.  I really like these two patterns. :tup:

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Re: Scoters lets see em!
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2013, 08:11:24 AM »
No problem. Todd does amazing work.

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Re: Scoters lets see em!
« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2013, 07:14:08 AM »
Courtesy of willow creek taxidermy. Shot out of  othello 2011

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« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2013, 07:18:11 AM »
Thats a nice one there :tup:  Thanks for posting the pic, is there any story behind that scoter?  My first drake I shot was a hard haul, took either 5 or 6 shots and he kept diving and popping up 30-80 yards away at a time.
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Re: Scoters lets see em!
« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2013, 07:36:18 PM »
i was on one pond, buddy on another. first light comes around and he is blazing away. half our goes by and i still hadnt fired my gun. well, must have been hundred or more birds at the end of the pond and for whatever reason they all got up at once and went 100 different directions. first wave came by me but nothing in range. then out of nowhere i see a duck about 10' off the water coming straight at me. with the light, distance the bird was, and the darkness of the feathers, looked like a drake mallard coming at me. i popped up, fired twice, and bird dropped on land behind me. i ran over to it thinking ' heck yeah another greenie' when i realized i had no idea what the heck it was! i text a pic to another buddy who primarily hunts salt flats and asked him what the heck it was. he told me scoter so i looked it up right there and sure enough it was! no idea how it got that far inland. was by itself. then last year hunting the columbia around crescent, i saw a flock of three more white wings 10' off the water. im getting pretty good at identifying birds on the wing and at a distance and knew exactly what they were from 150 yrds away. could see wing pattern and how they flew. quite a ways away from the salt again, but cool. same day i saw the lusistic(?) hen mallard. was in the cove we were hunting but 100+ yrds away. never got a shot at either. figured i better get this one mounted as i have never sea duck hunted and dont know when i will get the chance. plus John and Alyssa do such great work, ihad to get it done.

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Re: Scoters lets see em!
« Reply #9 on: November 22, 2013, 07:32:16 AM »
Thanks for the story on the hunt.  Yes that is strange to see a scoter so far inland.  John will be getting my bird, he as already done a couple of mounts for me and they sure are great birds! 
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Re: Scoters lets see em!
« Reply #10 on: November 22, 2013, 01:53:37 PM »



John and Alyssa also did these for me. Got another Harli sitting in the freezer that will eventually end up with these two.
KCCO

 The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929

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Re: Scoters lets see em!
« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2013, 03:04:49 PM »
That is one dandy mount there :tup:
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Re: Scoters lets see em!
« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2013, 04:17:26 PM »
Thanks, john and Alyssa did a great job. There will be another Harli and oldsquaw added this year.
KCCO

 The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929

 


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