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Offline boneaddict

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wantoneofthese
« on: March 03, 2012, 05:45:55 PM »
I'd sure like to kill a mature one of these and have it mounted

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Re: wantoneofthese
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2012, 06:05:57 PM »
Bone, the Drake Spoony is one of the most beautiful birds out there.  I think they rate right up there with a Wood Duck and Harliquin.  Late season plummed out spoony, doesn't get much better than that.......John

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Re: wantoneofthese
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2012, 09:38:55 PM »
Agreed, very colorful.
With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase. - Abraham Lincoln

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Re: wantoneofthese
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2012, 09:42:16 PM »
I'll get ya one at ridgefield next year
It's not true that I am good for nothing---I can be used as a bad example!!

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Re: wantoneofthese
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2012, 08:42:28 AM »
Whats funny is that when I lived in Nevada we would pass on these all day long unless hunting was slow.

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Re: wantoneofthese
« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2012, 12:26:12 PM »
I've only got one of these ever!!!! Wish I would have got it taxied....   :'(   IMO I think I shot the bill up too bad.... Maybe a good taxi could have fixed it....   :dunno: 

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wantoneofthese
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2012, 01:43:08 PM »
Any location in SW WA can produce a good bull.

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Re: wantoneofthese
« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2012, 01:58:14 PM »
I've only got one of these ever!!!! Wish I would have got it taxied....   :'(   IMO I think I shot the bill up too bad.... Maybe a good taxi could have fixed it....   :dunno:
most taxidermists use cast heads so a shot up bill isn't a problem at all.

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Re: wantoneofthese
« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2012, 05:38:22 PM »
Used to shoot them fairly regularly.  Then I learned to mount my own birds and haven't gotten a decent one since.  Prolly the hardest bird to get in full color in my opinion.

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Re: wantoneofthese
« Reply #9 on: March 04, 2012, 05:51:16 PM »
I've never shot one.   

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Re: wantoneofthese
« Reply #10 on: March 04, 2012, 06:06:44 PM »
Hunt Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge and you will shoot some!

This was the best smiling mallard I shot this season.  Unfortunately not a good enough one to mount.  I used to just pick out the mature drakes in January when they went by, but just don't see to many in the spots I hunt anymore.
« Last Edit: March 04, 2012, 08:02:55 PM by h2ofowlr »
Cut em!
It's not the shells!  It's the shooter!

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Re: wantoneofthese
« Reply #11 on: March 04, 2012, 10:41:33 PM »
Its too bad it takes them so long to get colored up. We shot a ton of those bootlips in november, but none of the drakes were any good.

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wantoneofthese
« Reply #12 on: March 05, 2012, 06:38:05 PM »
I've never shot one.

Shoot me a pm during the season, I have a super secret spot.

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Re: wantoneofthese
« Reply #13 on: March 12, 2012, 07:17:05 PM »
Hey bone, that was a great pic of all those drakes. I swung by my duck spot and found a ton. I only saw two drakes all season. One was on the adjacent private and the other swung into my dekes and died. Here is just a brief video as I drove by. Nothing spectacular, but I am still in awe of this species, at least the drakes. I hope the link works.


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Re: wantoneofthese
« Reply #14 on: March 12, 2012, 07:49:23 PM »
Very cool!

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Re: wantoneofthese
« Reply #15 on: March 12, 2012, 07:58:19 PM »
Used to shoot them fairly regularly.  Then I learned to mount my own birds and haven't gotten a decent one since.  Prolly the hardest bird to get in full color in my opinion.

Shot a bunch in So. Cal. around the Salton Sea, great plumage down there.  They are pretty birds.  I think the hardest to get in breeding plumage is a Blue-winged Teal, never got one in six years of hunting in WI and haven't seen any to shoot duck hunting anywhere else I have hunted.

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Re: wantoneofthese
« Reply #16 on: March 27, 2012, 03:17:19 PM »






I thought this bird had good color for as early as I killed him.

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Re: wantoneofthese
« Reply #17 on: March 27, 2012, 03:56:15 PM »
Funny---On the banding report they have it as a female??

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Re: wantoneofthese
« Reply #18 on: March 27, 2012, 07:08:33 PM »
Funny---On the banding report they have it as a female??

I know!  lol  I called them and they 'corrected' it on their records, they said I would get a new certificate but that never happened.  Oh well better luck next time.

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Re: wantoneofthese
« Reply #19 on: March 27, 2012, 09:59:30 PM »
Thats awesome man, a banded spoonie has got to be about the rarest banded duck you can get. He has great plumage for being shot in october too!

 


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