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Offline AceInTheWild

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Big Northern
« on: February 20, 2009, 08:14:21 PM »
my brother took this big one at 30 yards single shot drop. clean kill and great looking bird
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Re: Big Northern
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2009, 09:01:38 PM »
Welcome to the site little brother :)
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Re: Big Northern
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2009, 06:10:20 PM »
 8) 8) 8)
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Re: Big Northern
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2009, 06:11:56 PM »
 :IBCOOL: :drool:
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Re: Big Northern
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2009, 06:16:58 PM »
Thats a bomber for sure 
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Re: Big Northern
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2009, 01:02:10 AM »
that makes me so jealous i didnt get a goose this year. a me and ducks doom were out on the river one morning when a flock of 8 was no more than thirty yards above us, but there was power lines directly between us, we didnt want to chance it
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Re: Big Northern
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2009, 06:17:13 PM »
Did you get a weight on that bad boy.
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Re: Big Northern
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2009, 03:45:04 PM »
No I didnt get a chance to weigh it, but does F***ing heavy count as a good unit of weight? :chuckle:
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Re: Big Northern
« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2009, 03:51:21 PM »
F***ing heavy only counts as a unit of weight after 3 miles... :P :P
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Re: Big Northern
« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2009, 06:41:12 PM »
Great bird... is it October yet?
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Re: Big Northern
« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2009, 06:46:42 PM »
Nice Bird
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Re: Big Northern
« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2009, 08:46:42 PM »
at least 20 pounds!!!!


My question is why do you think it's a northern? My guess would be that it probably a local bird that has lived the good life for a long time. 

It always amazes me to hear people talk about big "fat" northern birds when common sense would tell me that if I had 2 mature drake mallards side by side and I peeled the skin on the breast back, the one Iwould consider a northern would be the one with the least amount fat on it.  That incredible journey burns the fat right off them fella's!

just my  :twocents:
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Re: Big Northern
« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2009, 11:30:03 AM »
Quote from: General Disarray on March 31, 2009, 08:46:42 PM
at least 20 pounds!!!!


My question is why do you think it's a northern? My guess would be that it probably a local bird that has lived the good life for a long time. 

It always amazes me to hear people talk about big "fat" northern birds when common sense would tell me that if I had 2 mature drake mallards side by side and I peeled the skin on the breast back, the one Iwould consider a northern would be the one with the least amount fat on it.  That incredible journey burns the fat right off them fella's!

just my  :twocents:

It didnt have alot of fat on it.  I grew up in the area that I shot that bird and I know for a fact that it wasnt a local bird.  The local birds are not near as large as that bird or the rest of the birds that it was with.  I have been watching and keeping track of the local birds year round.  I am trying to pattern the local gaggle and observe the growth, pairing, hierarchy, feeding, and nesting areas.   
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