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First Seaduck Hunt
« on: January 01, 2012, 11:03:53 PM »
Made it out for our first seaduck hunt before Christmas and had a fun time.  Birds were somewhat wary of decoys which made for some challenging shooting.  We used blindside shells with mixed results.  Hope to do it again as we had plenty of action.
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Re: First Seaduck Hunt
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2012, 11:44:13 PM »
Nice batch of em. hope to get a harley my self some day

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Re: First Seaduck Hunt
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2012, 11:49:31 PM »
You had a great first shoot.  Many have never shot a harli or even have the opportunity.  They are a pretty bird.  I have mounted some of the ones I shot.
Cut em!
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Re: First Seaduck Hunt
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2012, 12:31:38 AM »
That's great!!!
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Re: First Seaduck Hunt
« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2012, 10:37:48 AM »
Great looking harli  :tup:

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Re: First Seaduck Hunt
« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2012, 10:55:24 AM »
Thanks all!  The Harli is at Moro Taxidermy.  We hunted with Getty's NW Guiding.  Ben has a great setup for seaducks.
« Last Edit: January 02, 2012, 11:08:40 AM by Phantom Gobbler »
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Re: First Seaduck Hunt
« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2012, 11:11:06 AM »
Nice Harli  :tup:
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Re: First Seaduck Hunt
« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2012, 11:12:21 AM »
Already @ the taxidermist. Saweet. That's my only fear of shooting a nice drake seaduck. The taxi bill. :-)
 Luckily I've only shot hens the one time I went last year. Congrats.

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Re: First Seaduck Hunt
« Reply #8 on: January 02, 2012, 05:13:26 PM »
Cant beat Sea-dukkin' :tup:

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Re: First Seaduck Hunt
« Reply #9 on: January 02, 2012, 05:26:19 PM »
Cant beat Sea-dukkin' :tup:

Did you ever decide to go out? or gonna take the year off
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Re: First Seaduck Hunt
« Reply #10 on: January 03, 2012, 10:17:58 PM »
Another picture of the Harli. 
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Re: First Seaduck Hunt
« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2012, 12:57:14 PM »
Nice birds!
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Re: First Seaduck Hunt
« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2012, 09:57:55 PM »
Nice birds!

Scooter hope you can make it out seaduckin one of these times.
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Re: First Seaduck Hunt
« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2012, 10:10:35 PM »
Very nice hunt.  Congrat's on the Harly.  They are a trophy indeed....John

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Re: First Seaduck Hunt
« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2012, 10:43:05 PM »
The seaduck hunt was a real treat.  We were able to chalk up 4 species between the 3 of us!
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