Summer blues

[Johnc]

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[Rick]

Pretty neat.

[Deltaman]

Cool pose!

[Duck Engr]

Love a dead mount!

[Darren]

Very nice John, thought you might like this one I came across; at least I did as a pirogue hunter

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[Rick]

Kinda glad they left the dog out.

[Johnc]

Very nice John, thought you might like this one I came across; at least I did as a pirogue hunter

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Wow what a piece

[Darren]

Kinda glad they left the dog out.

And the hunter

[Johnc]

In a place far far away in never never land,called California,there are people who mount various animals and accessorize with various costumes and jewelry

I never would have dreamed such but there was a student when I went to taxidermy school that was learning just that

[Duck Engr]

In a place far far away in never never land,called California,there are people who mount various animals and accessorize with various costumes and jewelry

I never would have dreamed such but there was a student when I went to taxidermy school that was learning just that

Yiiiiiiikes!

[Johnc]

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[Johnc]

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[Deltaman]

WOW...........you've been busy this summer!
Good Looking mounts John

[Johnc]

WOW...........you've been busy this summer!
Good Looking mounts John

Thank you. I am trying to improve

[Rick]

You've already gone from good to really good. Much more and you'll have to quit your day job and eventually learn to hate the art form you're loving now...

[Johnc]

You've already gone from good to really good. Much more and you'll have to quit your day job and eventually learn to hate the art form you're loving now...

Thank you,although I don’t feel worthy this early on in this

[Duck Engr]

I’m a big fan of that gwt. Wing work on that is absolutely beautiful.

[Darren]

Look the bull dosgris! Great work!

[Johnc]

The ducks were good specimens I actually killed in 2017. So that helps but thank you

[MARSH BEAR]

Really good work John - looking at your work it would take WAY!!!!! too much patience than I have.

[Johnc]

It’s definitely a lesson in patience.

Can’t get mad,just like when I can’t get specks to come right,just breathe,regroup,try different approach—-damn birds make u pull ur hair out alive or dead!

[Rick]

—-damn birds make u pull ur hair out alive or dead!

They just tryin' to get even.

[Johnc]

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[Rick]

Nice work.

A banded dos gris is something I've never seen, but learned last spring that they band a mess of them somewhere by Mississippi River grain docks.

[Deltaman]

John, your mount positioning of birds is super creative, and realistic!!!! Only people that spend time in a blind, watching birds and their unusual acrobatics as they work the spread, can really appreciate some of these positions. Love the upside down bird with the head turned. Have never seen such a mount, but have watched birds do this as they are positioning themselves coming in, especially Mallards in a tight creek. Thanks for sharing

[Deltaman]

Nice work.

A banded dos gris is something I've never seen, but learned last spring that they band a mess of them somewhere by Mississippi River grain docks.

Rick, I shot two banded Dos Gris in one season, back in the late 70's. The first one I shot had pink paint sprayed on the underside of the wings. At first, i thought something was wrong with the bird, until I saw the band. A few weeks later, we had a big wad come in, and I saw one with orange painted on the underside of the wings, and shot it out of the group, knowing it likely had a band, and it did. Back then, (no internet) I wrote a letter when I mailed the information in, and got a response. Apparently, when they banded the birds, they painted as such, so that when they were targeting a group of birds to band, they could tell roughly, what percentage of the birds had already been banded. Have never seen one painted since.

[Johnc]

John, your mount positioning of birds is super creative, and realistic!!!! Only people that spend time in a blind, watching birds and their unusual acrobatics as they work the spread, can really appreciate some of these positions. Love the upside down bird with the head turned. Have never seen such a mount, but have watched birds do this as they are positioning themselves coming in, especially Mallards in a tight creek. Thanks for sharing

Thank you very much

[Johnc]

Nice work.

A banded dos gris is something I've never seen, but learned last spring that they band a mess of them somewhere by Mississippi River grain docks.

I saw a double banded lesser scaup killed of all places Rick,the lyons farm in thornwell

Just before an opener a rain had flooded the plowed fields and for some reason the ducks took it,and one of the bag of that blind was a double banded scaup drake,one of which was a green reward band

[Darren]

Been seeing a lot of recovered scaup bands in SE La last few years. Most have historically passed on them when at all possible, myself included, but they’ve started thinking twice now that so many are handed.