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Other Hunting => Waterfowl => Topic started by: Colin on January 10, 2014, 10:21:05 AM

Title: First pintail!
Post by: Colin on January 10, 2014, 10:21:05 AM: After getting skunked like the last 5 times out I finally got a bird in hand... And it's my first pintail!!! Waking up at 2:30am finally paid off!!!(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.tapatalk.com%2Fd%2F14%2F01%2F11%2F2yvygy6u.jpg&hash=cd91fbd1581c5419c767b14e4d0e61f06ebed624)

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Title: Re: First pintail!
Post by: hntrspud on January 10, 2014, 10:31:28 AM: Good job! Thats a very nice drake you have there. Certainly one of my favorite birds to shoot. Are you going to put him on the wall?
Title: Re: First pintail!
Post by: Colin on January 10, 2014, 10:42:56 AM: I would love to but I absolutely crushed him from like 10 yards with #2 shot.

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Title: Re: First pintail!
Post by: full choke on January 10, 2014, 10:58:28 AM: Nice looking bird. Good Job! :tup:
Title: Re: First pintail!
Post by: D-Rock425 on January 10, 2014, 12:52:48 PM: :tup:
Title: Re: First pintail!
Post by: vandeman17 on January 10, 2014, 12:55:58 PM: Quote from: Colin on January 10, 2014, 10:42:56 AM
I would love to but I absolutely crushed him from like 10 yards with #2 shot.

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I remember a few years back when a buddy and I jumped a pond hiking out from our hunt and I shot a HUGE greenhead. Biggest mallard we had ever seen. The problem was that he went down and swam over towards my buddy so I hollered at him to swat him. The pellets mangled his head something fierce and it was like a 30 yard shot. He had a triple tail curl too.

Nice bird by the way. I have a mounted sprig on my wall.
Title: Re: First pintail!
Post by: REHJWA on January 10, 2014, 01:42:08 PM: Congratulations :tup:
Title: Re: First pintail!
Post by: curtdiesel on January 10, 2014, 01:58:22 PM: Nice Duck. I'm hoping to see some Pintails tomorrow.
Title: Re: First pintail!
Post by: sakoshooter on January 10, 2014, 05:38:40 PM: Congrats. Looks like a good one to mount.
Title: Re: First pintail!
Post by: AWS on January 10, 2014, 05:48:34 PM: Still a lot of pintails around, and they've been decoying well for me. last weekend my fourth bird was a nice drake and had another drake land in the decoys a few min later but left him go so I had room for a mistake bird, I have a lot of hen pintail flying with widgeon and hard to tell a hen pintail from a hen widgeon when they are coming straight at you, for me anyway.
Title: Re: First pintail!
Post by: h2ofowlr on January 10, 2014, 06:33:05 PM: Congrats! Lots of them in the area right now.
Title: Re: First pintail!
Post by: Colin on January 10, 2014, 07:22:16 PM: I have been having a really hard time getting them into shooting range. Seems like groups, big and small will check out my spread and make several passes but always pull up at the last second. Long day in the blind rolled out of bed at 2:30am and just got done finishing cleaning my birds and stowing my gear. Wish I could go out tomorrow... It's gonna be a slammer!!! Ugh... Bummed I gotta miss the awesome wind tomorrow.

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Title: Re: First pintail!
Post by: Colin on January 10, 2014, 07:23:46 PM: Quote from: sakoshooter on January 10, 2014, 05:38:40 PM
Congrats. Looks like a good one to mount.

Other side of the head took a direct hit and both wings were broken. I'd assume that rules out a mount?

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Title: Re: First pintail!
Post by: Elkstuffer on January 10, 2014, 08:43:56 PM: Congrats! looks like a nice mature bird. Pintail is the one duck that I really want but has still eluded me year after year.