Sounds like a great way to end the season 👍. I enjoy hunting the last day of any season - often it’s a bust from a game harvest perspective. But there is always the pleasure of the day, and most often a hidden surprise.
OMG all the details are so close to my experience lol! I too was at GL on closing Saturday with a real good Rez, and it sucked royally, mightily, when it just shouldn't have. I too have a ghillie hat, but I really like yours bc you can stick tules in it. I've done plenty of jump shooting like that before, and love it, but it usually goes like you said yours usually goes. Your story is a testament to doing taichi, which I've actually been considering. And I too hunted like a damn maniac all January, almost every day. Result was few ducks bc the duck hunting was crappy for me on refuges this season for some reason- maybe just bad luck, and I passed on spoonies all season. But I accumulated large piles of snows & Aleutians and a lot of specks. So the cooking this spring will be lots of stews and sausages and exploring a bunch of tried and untried Hank's recipes - all seriously awesome BTW, as is your photography! And I have your same gun! Yay! Loved your story!
You're making me feel like I need to figure out a way to waterfowl hunt.....its so hard to teach yourself, but maybe its time I tried. And the "lose your shit" comment is exactly the way I talk to myself when trying to keep calm....are you from Michigan? Seems like us Michiganders use that phrase to the tits....
This is why we hunt….I’m a little old lady who loves to tippy toe through the bush for grouse. My husband does big game successfully.I like to listen for the cluck clucks and then dispatch….
Sounds like a great way to end the season 👍. I enjoy hunting the last day of any season - often it’s a bust from a game harvest perspective. But there is always the pleasure of the day, and most often a hidden surprise.
OMG all the details are so close to my experience lol! I too was at GL on closing Saturday with a real good Rez, and it sucked royally, mightily, when it just shouldn't have. I too have a ghillie hat, but I really like yours bc you can stick tules in it. I've done plenty of jump shooting like that before, and love it, but it usually goes like you said yours usually goes. Your story is a testament to doing taichi, which I've actually been considering. And I too hunted like a damn maniac all January, almost every day. Result was few ducks bc the duck hunting was crappy for me on refuges this season for some reason- maybe just bad luck, and I passed on spoonies all season. But I accumulated large piles of snows & Aleutians and a lot of specks. So the cooking this spring will be lots of stews and sausages and exploring a bunch of tried and untried Hank's recipes - all seriously awesome BTW, as is your photography! And I have your same gun! Yay! Loved your story!
You're making me feel like I need to figure out a way to waterfowl hunt.....its so hard to teach yourself, but maybe its time I tried. And the "lose your shit" comment is exactly the way I talk to myself when trying to keep calm....are you from Michigan? Seems like us Michiganders use that phrase to the tits....
This is why we hunt….I’m a little old lady who loves to tippy toe through the bush for grouse. My husband does big game successfully.I like to listen for the cluck clucks and then dispatch….