A hunting/boating pic or two?

jbjennings · Dec 21, 2008

Anyone have any good hunting pics of some big bucks or ducks? The weather is cold here and we're getting a FEW ducks.. I know most of you guys are out of luck due to the cold but I'm lucky enough to enjoy my old outboards the most at this time of year. I love johnson and evinrude outboards because they were such good examples of American craftsmanship and I also love the gun on the left of this pic for the same reason. If you don't know what it is then you don't hunt much!

I also love Remington model 11's and Browning auto-5's. I like to use the gun on the left in the pic for the farther shots because it shoots so hard. The Browning on the right is a good gun and one of my favorites but has an aluminum receiver which I don't like and not nearly as high quality as they were 40 years ago.

oops! · Dec 21, 2008

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yeah.......any of you lower 48 guys have warm pics........post'em for your freezin snow covered buddies

aspeck · Dec 21, 2008

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Supposed to be 5 degrees (F) tomorrow morn with a wind chill of about -25 degrees (F). Gonna get the Christmas goose, I hope. Should be good weather with the cold and wind and blowing snow they should be holding tight and we should be able to drift in pretty easily. At least that is the plan!

Bob_VT · Dec 21, 2008

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aspeck said:
Supposed to be 5 degrees (F) tomorrow morn with a wind chill of about -25 degrees (F). Gonna get the Christmas goose, I hope. Should be good weather with the cold and wind and blowing snow they should be holding tight and we should be able to drift in pretty easily. At least that is the plan!

Shoot the goose...... it will be frozen before you get home!

Good luck.

puddle jumper · Dec 21, 2008

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aspeck said:
Supposed to be 5 degrees (F) tomorrow morn with a wind chill of about -25 degrees (F). Gonna get the Christmas goose, I hope. Should be good weather with the cold and wind and blowing snow they should be holding tight and we should be able to drift in pretty easily. At least that is the plan!

I have only done it once and never again. Pluck a wild goose by hand. Jeeess i even had down feathers up my nose and the yard looked as if it snowed.

tashasdaddy · Dec 22, 2008

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i learned this as a kid, on a friends farm. they are like chickens, big pot of boiling water, dunk them for a 30 seconds to a minute, the pores open and the feathers come out real easy.

mthieme · Dec 22, 2008

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Bob_VT said:
Shoot the goose...... it will be frozen before you get home! Good luck.

LOL
True story....
when I was a lad, one of mom's friends brought her a goose. Wild game was not an unusual menu item growing up. For whatever reason, she stuck it in the freezer without cleaning it. When she got several months later, it had not (completely) frozen like all the other rock hard items in the freezer. Go figure.

naree · Dec 22, 2008

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hi mthieme !
interesting and useful site !
EDIT: link violation of guidelines.

mthieme · Dec 22, 2008

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naree...
welcome aboard.
I learn something here everyday, and not necessarily about boats/boating.
We have someone from darn near every profession hanging out.

cranksbait · Dec 22, 2008

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Not an exciting picture. But it is my first duck. Got it Last week. Hoping to get out some more. The St. Lawrence is freezing up faster than normal. But the guy who introduced me to duck hunting says the good times are about to happen.

Theirs only a few of us fools that will venture out onto the river this time of year. All I can say "It's AWSOME!!!"

Limited-Time · Dec 22, 2008

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oops! said:
yeah.......any of you lower 48 guys have warm pics........post'em for your freezin snow covered buddies

Here ya go oops.

chiefalen · Dec 22, 2008

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First time i ever uploaded pics, i'm the one with hood on, my deer , and my best friend on my boat at different times.

I see there is a learning curve how to post pics.

chiefalen · Dec 22, 2008

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My son the fishing machine. Tried to insert it in the post before couldn't figure out how to do it.

aspeck · Dec 22, 2008

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Too cold to take pics today, and people in our favorite spot. 20 MPH winds with gusts up to 40 MPH! It was COLD! Too much spray from the whitecaps ... guns froze up! 3 of us shot 1/2 a box of shells, brought one goose home. Too cold for the camera!

wildmaninal · Dec 22, 2008

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aspeck said:
20 MPH winds with gusts up to 40 MPH! It was COLD!

I heard a big crash last night, scared the heck out of me. I immediately stepped out expecting to see a tree fallen on the home but seen nothing. Winds were pretty gusty here also, temperature dropped big time. So I'm wondering what it was that fell, I stepped back out on the back deck to find 3 stacked cases of 2 liter bottled water had fallen over (8 bottles per crate). Just one of those things we haven't managed to get up to the storage building out back, now we have a mess, and haven't noticed how many bottles were busted open.

aspeck · Dec 22, 2008

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Yep, too cold and windy to be running up and down the lake on the boat hunting for the geese ...

chiefalen · Dec 22, 2008

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It's thrilling to get your first duck i remember my first.

Congrats.

jbjennings · Dec 22, 2008

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I loved the first duck pic! The fishing pics were neat, too. I am eagerly awaiting those goose hunt pics....
Here's one from this morning in the duck blind overlooking the decoys. It was about 25 degrees which is cold here. We only got 2 mallard drakes and 5 divers. Not enough ducks to even talk about. If ya'll wanna see the lake go to google earth and type in Black Bayou Lake, Hosston, LA.
Good hunting and fishin',
JBJ

Pony · Dec 22, 2008

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aspeck said:
Supposed to be 5 degrees (F) tomorrow morn with a wind chill of about -25 degrees (F). Gonna get the Christmas goose, I hope. Should be good weather with the cold and wind and blowing snow they should be holding tight and we should be able to drift in pretty easily. At least that is the plan!

Sounds like opening day of gun deer season this past November for me.....but without as much wind. It was 0F...........the worst part was getting all sweated up walking to the tree stand. By the time I got out there I was peeling off layers.

The pic below was during an ice fishing trip a few years ago during some bad weather. We had a blizzard the day before and then a cold front moved through. It got down to -36F at night and was at most -20F during the day. I had to use a snow blower to get to the ice. I have NEVER seen water freeze that fast before. I knelt down to bait a tip-up after cutting the hole and my pants froze to the lake in a matter of seconds. The next morning when I went back out I had to re auger the holes completely.........I couldnt even chip them out with my iron chipper. In the pic its about -26F. I loved it though.....I'm wierd like that......I love it cold.

jbjennings · Dec 23, 2008

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"Cool" pic! I've always wanted to go ice fishing.. I knew it got cold in Wisconsin, but not THAT cold!

BTW, How do you know where to drill the holes? Do you record on a gps the coordinates for creek channels or ridges or holes or what? Or do you just drill them over a certain depth water? How long does it take to get a bite when they're biting?
Just curious,
JBJ

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