Preseason

[Ericdc]

Cousin planted some brown top back in may and the birds seem to have really started using it in the last week, so Labor Day weekend looks promising. Hoping it won’t be super hot so Amos can do some retrieving work.

My lovely wife completed hunter safety training last weekend and we have our eyes on a browning silver 20 gauge. I hope she will gave the chance to take her first deer this year also.


Need to check my deer stand for wasps this Saturday and maybe do some limb trimming.

Not really any teal season prep for me other than buying licenses and waiting on the invite from brothers to the marsh.

Our work will start in October on the farm once crops are out.

Did secure 40 acres of mature hardwood to squirrel hunt on and will be checking it’s large creek and slough (once it gets wet) for wood ducks.

New job is going really well, and I’ll be fully integrated into my position next week when I will be assigned my first logging contractors.




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[Rick]

Lots of good news there. Nice to hear.

[Deltaman]

Hope your doves hang around for the opener Eric!

[Darren]

Lots of good news there. Nice to hear.

This!

Congrats to your wife (and you as well), and a squirrel hole to boot

[DComeaux]

Like Rick said, lots of good news.

[Ericdc]

I think graphs tell a better story


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[Ericdc]

Getting the biggest rain we’ve had in months now.


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[Rick]

Y'all are making me jealous.

[Ericdc]

Cousins millet crop produced today. Final count was 197 birds. We shot pretty well and Amos helped fetch a few out of tall grass. Some of us killed our 15 birds and the rest got close. First hunt using the new maxus, and it did well.


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[SpinnerMan]

Damn

[Rick]

Sweet shoot.

[DComeaux]

AWESOME! It's been a long time since I've dove hunted. Growing up on a dairy farm we always had our fresh cut hay fields in September, and my grandfather had his land leased to bean farmers. All of the this is gone.

[Rick]

...been years since I was on a hunt capable of killing that many doves

Was going to calculate how many bullets it would take me to kill 197 dove, but my head started hurting pretty early on in the ciphering.

[Ericdc]

Thankfully I had plenty of shade for Amos and cold water. It stayed cloudy most of the afternoon and even rained a few times. Had it been in the upper 90’s and sunny he probably wouldn’t have got to go. He did pretty good though, found a few cripples for us in heavy cover and started watching birds and marking them.

I shot better than I have in a long time, I had 3 full boxes of shells and had 49 shells left so 26 shells for 15 birds.

Main thing is everyone had a good time and nobody got hurt.


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[Ericdc]

Might slow down some harvesting in my area but won’t be catastrophic by any means.


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[Ducaholic]

We didn’t get a drop in Marksville

[Ericdc]

Same here, I don’t even think they got much up around my farm. They saying pretty high chances next few days, we’ll see


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[Ducaholic]

Hoping for 2” in one big thunderstorm. That hasn’t happened all summer so I’m asking for a miracle.

[Rick]

Hoping for 2” in one big thunderstorm. That hasn’t happened all summer so I’m asking for a miracle.

Feel like we fell into one last week, so there's always hope...

[Ducaholic]

Hoping for 2” in one big thunderstorm. That hasn’t happened all summer so I’m asking for a miracle.

Feel like we fell into one last week, so there's always hope...

I'm hopeful...

[Ericdc]

Sitting under a red blob on the radar right now


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[Ericdc]

We did it


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[Darren]

Very cool, congrats to her (and you )

[Rick]

New toy time!

[Ericdc]

We were really excited to find that gun. It’s a shot show special from 2014.

Michael’s Men’s store is kind of a gem in downtown Homer, LA. They are a benelli beretta Browning Winchester etc dealer and their inventory would rival anything the bigger places like Simmons or Lafayette Shooters would have.

Another plus is their markup is 10% above dealer cost so they beat everyone on price except some of the big internet mail order folks.

This was the first and only browning micro Midas 20 gauge semi auto I’ve ever seen in stock and I’ve been looking for years. They actually had a 12 gauge silver micro as well, but I wanted to get the 20 for Tricia.

My buddy bought a new SBE 3 in max 5 for $1699 which was $100 or more lower than any other place we priced.

Tax free was nice too!


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