Preseason

[DComeaux]

Can't say I've ever seen a retrieving German shepherd before


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[Ericdc]

Very fresh dove gumbo


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[DComeaux]

MMMM! Looks tasty.

[Deltaman]

Neat hunt Eric!!!!

[aunt betty]

Been a while since I ate a dove, rabbit, or pheasant. Permission around here is rough. Freaking liberal anit-gun ppl.
So I get ducks on public.

Gee I used to have an entire township that gave Billy W and I permission to wander. 100 square miles.
Those were the days. Sigh.

That dove gumbo does look tasty.

[Ericdc]

Got word this morning that they’ll be cranking up the pumps today on our farm. We should be in good shape for specks next Saturday.


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[DComeaux]

Good deal. I didn't know speck opened next weekend. Really don't follow that since I have no place to chase em anymore.

[Ericdc]

Yea we get 2 weeks of specks before and after duck season.


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[DComeaux]

I saw that. Just went peak at the regs. I'm kind glad we don't have em in the marsh. The ducks wont be disturbed just yet, other than the youth hunt, for which I don't see much pressure.

[Ericdc]

Patterned some loads yesterday at 25 and 40 yards.

Remington nitro steel and federal black cloud

Both loads 3” 1 1/4 oz at 1450 FPS 30” circle





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[Ericdc]

Browning gold 3 1/2 26” barrel and a terror .700 choke which is supposed be similar to a light modified.

Lot of guys I hunt with use full or extra full chokes and they have a 12” heavy core at 40 yards. I figure it’s like a turkey load at 20 yards. I don’t get it. I want a nice even 30” pattern at the ranges I mostly shoot.


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[aunt betty]

Once I switched to full choke I started hitting nothing but heads.
There have been seasons where every breast was pellet free.
Takes a lot of practice.


Long time ago a rabbit hunter taught me the concept of "using the edge of your pattern". Works on ducks too.

[Ericdc]

Been eyeing the Johnson grass growing along the highway near my house. With the help of my wife and our Stihl trimmer we cut a nice load.



Zip tied it into several bundles for the 2 hour ride to the farm.


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[DComeaux]

When I first looked at that second picture I thought that was a muffler stack coming out of your hood. I thought you were one of those "coal rollers".

[Ericdc]

When I first looked at that second picture I thought that was a muffler stack coming out of your hood. I thought you were one of those "coal rollers".

Negative I’m a low roller if anything.


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[aunt betty]

About the coal rollers... If one blows white smoke do we get a new pope?

[Ducaholic]

When I first looked at that second picture I thought that was a muffler stack coming out of your hood. I thought you were one of those "coal rollers".

Negative I’m a low roller if anything.


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Don't let him fool you...the man is stacking it up...wife wants a new house on the lake...

[Ericdc]

Oct 28 deer opening day
Eric and Tricia
Clear, calm to light NW wind, 35
Big doe and young doe in west lane 7:35
Fawn yearling and 2 does way up north lane at 8:15


Left at 10

Lots of different younger bucks on camera and other critters



Disregard trail cam dates...forgot to reset it Monday


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[Ericdc]

Had a neat encounter this evening with this pretty young buck. I’ve killed a couple this size and really want my next buck to be bigger. I’ve got a couple odd looking spikes and a few big does I’m hoping to make sausage out of.


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[Ericdc]

Met up with my lease partner that lives real close to our farm this afternoon on his way back from Dallas. He brought the speck decoys out to our blind this evening. Our field is pumped up and ready to hunt. No birds on our farm, not a surprise, we haven’t held any birds before season the last 2 Year’s, we did have a bunch in 2014 early.

He did notice a big body of geese west of us though, so there are some around. Just hope they’ll be stirring Saturday, as of now looks like it’s going to be warm, cloudy, and a decent south wind.


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[Ericdc]

Due to the nasty weather, didn’t have anything to do after an early lunch so I headed up to the farm to put my 4 wheeler in the shop where it’ll live for the next 4 months.

Saw a really nice body of snows and specks in plowed corn a few miles from our farm. I believe we have more geese around this time this year than last year.

Another pleasant surprise was the several hundred ducks sitting on our bean field. There was also a decent batch of them in flooded stubble around another blind on the farm.


Mostly green winged teal, shovelers, gadwall, and pintail. Didn’t see any mallards but the heavy cloud cover made it hard to see any color.

Got some of our speck decoys out to hopefully maybe draw some birds to the field before Saturday. Did see a few flights of specks come over the farm.






Have got another truckload of grass to put around the blind Saturday morning.

First year in this field, it’s considerably larger than my previous spot on the farm.

Pretty neat to see a decent amount of ducks on the farm.


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[Ericdc]

Fall colors are really starting to happen up here and the foliage along the Boeuf river was really pretty, just doesn’t show up well with all the clouds.


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[DComeaux]

That's a good looking field, Eric.

[Ericdc]

Thanks, I like that the water is really shallow on back side of blind and plays out gradually instead of solid water from one end to the other


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[Ducaholic]

Like it...

[Darren]

Yea that's looking right, good luck!

[Ericdc]

We were doing some dozer work today on a tract we logged back in the summer outside Monroe, since I rarely work within an hour of where I duck hunt, and it was too hot to deer hunt, decide to ride up to farm, check our water, and see a few birds.

Sun was shining pretty on the spread so I took a few pics. It’ll be adjusted im sure, but since this is our first year we are going to start out like so.


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[Ericdc]

Had a nice big ball of teal hanging out on ours and several flocks of gadwall trying to come in while I was inspecting a few things. Think I’m going to pull a board at some point to see if I can get the water to about 4-6” deep instead of 8-10” but I don’t know this field as well and am a little timid about pulling a board early. Water at pipe is almost waist deep so the field has a decent bit of grade to it from the pit going west 200 yards to the pipe.


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[Rick]

Spread looks nice and natural.