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Other Hunting => Waterfowl => Topic started by: boneaddict on March 03, 2012, 05:45:55 PM

Title: wantoneofthese
Post by: boneaddict 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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Title: Re: wantoneofthese
Post by: WCTaxidermy 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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Post by: couesbitten on March 03, 2012, 09:38:55 PM
Agreed, very colorful.
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Post by: Fishnclifff on March 03, 2012, 09:42:16 PM
I'll get ya one at ridgefield next year
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Post by: kyle78 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.
Title: Re: wantoneofthese
Post by: Kowsrule30 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: 
Title: wantoneofthese
Post by: Tealer on March 04, 2012, 01:43:08 PM
Any location in SW WA can produce a good bull.
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Post by: Lybeck 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.
Title: Re: wantoneofthese
Post by: cryfowl 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.
Title: Re: wantoneofthese
Post by: boneaddict on March 04, 2012, 05:51:16 PM
I've never shot one.   
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Post by: h2ofowlr 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.
Title: Re: wantoneofthese
Post by: 270Shooter 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.
Title: wantoneofthese
Post by: Tealer 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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Post by: stickbuck 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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Post by: boneaddict on March 12, 2012, 07:49:23 PM
Very cool!
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Post by: lokidog 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.
Title: Re: wantoneofthese
Post by: duckkillerclyde on March 27, 2012, 03:17:19 PM
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I thought this bird had good color for as early as I killed him.
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Post by: quadrafire on March 27, 2012, 03:56:15 PM
Funny---On the banding report they have it as a female??
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Post by: duckkillerclyde 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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Post by: 270Shooter 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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