northerns!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ducksdoom12]

I shot my first northern mallard today, big ole drake with bright orange feet . and i went scouting around stanwood and saw a group of about 2 doz in the river, and 2 or 3 hundred circling out in the sound
THEIR HERE BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MichaelJ]

Dang man did you hit him with the wad or what?!  haha thats awesome!

Michael

[yelp]

slugs Norhterns are just started over here...the next two weeks will be great....

[ducksdoom12]

  lol ya he was like 10 - 15 yards tops but considering that when i jumped him he was 2 feet directly below me i say i waited a fair amount of time before my itchy trigger finger got the best of me

[Professor Chaos]

ok what would be fatter? 

A) a northern that just migrated down thousands of miles and burned up a lot of energy in the process
OR
B) a local that has been sitting around eating and doing nothing for 2 months


Orange feet have nothing to do with where the bird came from...

[ducksdoom12]

ya the fact that they were sitting in a tall walled skinney ditch that no local duck will go near after the first week of hunting season due to me, my dad, and a couple of other people shooting at them everytime they do has nothing to do with it. it is possible for a norther to be fat, if it is the point of the migration then he might not have been too far up

[Elliott]

yeah me and DD12 hunt that spot regularly and there is usually nothing, and if there is, its never mallards usually widgeon or teal.

[Elliott]

ps nice shooting, your finally ahead... no pun intended... with your shots, now if i could just keep my head down

[General Disarray]

Show me a bird banded in Alberta this summer and I'll believe you when you say it's a northern.

might be, might not be... There's bound to be some new birds moving in soon, but there really is no true way to tell a northern from a local other than my first statement.

Congrats on de-braining that drake. 

[EastWaViking]

And people were complaining about tongues hanging out in big game photos?   

[rasbo]

yeah looks like a 22 head shot..I would rather see a tongue hanging out..

[Currency Trader]

Yep, I always get a good chuckle at the I shot a " big fat northern" for a couple weeks they are skinny as rails....thats how you tell if you are shooting new birds.....coloration is a result of maturity and getting into breeding plumage sooner.....not because it has been up north

[Gobble]

Damn, thats a serious wound! I bet were you feeding it bread and shot it at close range, right ? 

[Buschingc]

DAMN>....... hes missing part of his head..

[snipekillr]

Nice