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Just got back from checking my blind and taking some gear down there.

Omg! There were so many ducks flying around. I quit counting after 100!
Interesting thing tho. They were landing in a small field over by the wood line that i think is being flooded. I didn't want to spook them all, so I'll check tomorrow and see why so many were landing back in there.
It's looking like a great opening morning! !!!!

I hope the 2 of you stack 'em up today!

Got 6.

I'll bet Trap made you proud didn't he?

Yep. My boy that I've owned for about 5 months now, sure put a smile on my face today.

We got to the blind about 6:15am, got the dekes thrown, and the lucky duck set.
About 6:35, the geese that had been honking down stream flew by. Trap was a whining!
So i look down stream and i see a black cow coming up river.

So i look around, look back, and I'm thinking Ed's bull is out and about.
When it got about 50 feet away, it dawned on my this black thing is round, not long.
A BEAR!
I stand up and said loudly, what in the [bleep] are you doing here.
He took off like i hit him with a cattle prod, straight across the river.

He was a big un.

This phone is pissing me off.
Here's a few more pics.
We quit around 10am.
Here's in the blind with trap staring at a hen mallard that landed in the dekes. A few dead ones hanging behind him.

And the trophy shot.

I love my dog.

Nice dog, but in the future you are going to wish you had better pictures.

No offense meant -- I would really like to see better pictures too!

John

I'm going to take it in and see if it can be fixed. Looking at the lens, it looks scratched.
I took some with a digital camera too. I gotta download them.
Took my wife yesterday evening. She fired but 2 shots and didn't ruffled a feather.
Her first time shooting at ducks! !
She does great on clays.
Not many birds flying for some reason?
No hunting today.... Work...

I just tried the facing me camera function, and it's clear and bright.
Guess the other lens is that bad off.
Repair time!
Oh, and I'm hunting not 3 miles out of town, with LOTS of houses and such all around, so the bear was a surprise.

My wife was hunting last night with trap and I.
Here's some pics off her phone.

Trap watching some ducks.

I love you dad.

Calling all ducks!

I knew Trap was one of a kind but I've NEVER seen a dog that even does the calling for you.

Give it time. I'll have video!

Well, so far we are up to 16 ducks, and 3 geese.
Last evening he did an about a 200 yard blind retrieve. Duck got hit, but continued on. I saw it fall down stream, on the other side. I sent him, a few toots on the whistle with hand signals and into the trees he goes. A few, what seemed like hours, later, he comes a running down to the bank and back up to me with the duck. I was grinning from ear to ear. He got a good lovin up for that!


mmm, duck blood from this morning. He is watching for more ducks. !


And we are number 19 out of 21 for saturday's hunt test and number 15 out of 19, for Sundays. Might be tough with all the duck scent everywhere.

Watching a hawk out at quality water last evening.


Nothing flew? Still had a great time.

Any day you can still get out with a good dog is a good day!

Where we went hunting this morning was too muddy to get him rinsed off, so when we got home, muddy boy and I took a shower!
He sure was lovin the soaping up and rubbing down.

Just an update.
We have been hunting with a few other guys the last few days, and so far trap has retrieved 22 ducks and 3 geese.
One of the other guys had a female yellow with, and yesterday she was favoring her left rear paw. We looked at it but found no goatheads or blood, but today he shows up without her because she was limping and her paw was swollen. She went to the vet today. The only thing we could think of was maybe she stepped on a russian olive thorn.

Got me thinking.....
The hunt test is this weekend, and I don't want trap to wind up with an injury, so we are done hunting til next week.
A decision, I feel wisely made..

Read all 8 pages Splatt and it was well worth the read. I agree with the other guys, you have to make it a "picture" thread!!

Good job with Trap and quit worrying so much!! Show your confidence in him and he will show his confidence in you!!



Hope you have him acclimated to Texans as well....

Messing with pics.
I think this turned out really nice.

Or this one.

Wish us luck guys, we're off to traps junior hunt test.