Eric's log book

[PorkChop]

Congrats to your nephew!!!

[ryan_k]

He hasn’t stopped saying, idk how I hit it. But now isn’t scared of a 20 ga now and was asking to practice shooting skeet this afternoon


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[Deltaman]

Happy Birthday Eric

[Ericdc]

53 this morning in Quitman. Amos and I are taking it in for a while at the pond this morning with some hot community dark roast. Life is good.




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[Darren]

Aw yea! Hard to beat that in the first half of Sept

[Rick]

No foolin'.

[DComeaux]

Love this weather. It puts life back into me.

[Duck Engr]

Love this weather. It puts life back into me.

Same here.

[Ericdc]

Fall


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[Duck Engr]

Hate it

[Ricky Spanish]

Sorry but this cracks me up.

Hehe

[DComeaux]

Sorry but this cracks me up.

Hehe

[Ericdc]

Date: 9/23/22

Time: finished about 6:50 then watched more birds come through as the sun rose

Location: old haunt

Cloud Cover: clear

Wind Direction and Velocity: light ENE, enough to line them up

Temperature: very comfortable

Barometer:

Moon phase: sliver

Special Notes: shot very efficiently at small groups and didn't miss

Waterfowl Activity: hearing lots of good reports across state of a good push. I concur

Waterfowl Responsiveness: excellent

Hunters: Corey and I

Guns:

Malfunctions: none

Dog(s): Boone did great

Special Equipment: 4 spinners

Kudos: I needed a day off and to have a good hunt was lagniappe

curses: wish our brother Ryan was there but he'll be with us tomorrow

Birds By Species: 12 blue winged teal

Photo Ops:



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[Duck Engr]

Date: 9/23/22

Time: finished about 6:50 then watched more birds come through as the sun rose

Location: old haunt

Cloud Cover: clear

Wind Direction and Velocity: light ENE, enough to line them up

Temperature: very comfortable

Barometer:

Moon phase: sliver

Special Notes: shot very efficiently at small groups and didn't miss

Waterfowl Activity: hearing lots of good reports across state of a good push. I concur

Waterfowl Responsiveness: excellent

Hunters: Corey and I

Guns:

Malfunctions: none

Dog(s): Boone did great

Special Equipment: 4 spinners

Kudos: I needed a day off and to have a good hunt was lagniappe

curses: wish our brother Ryan was there but he'll be with us tomorrow

Birds By Species: 12 blue winged teal

Photo Ops:



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Heck yeah! Nice work

[Deltaman]

Great report Eric

[Rick]

See Boone was pretty excited over it.

[Deltaman]

"See Boone was pretty excited over it."

Made me spit coffee Rick!!!!!!!

[Ducaholic]

See Boone was pretty excited over it.

At Boone's age its easy to get pretty excited

[Ericdc]

See Boone was pretty excited over it.

His cousin Amos sits the same way and I guess I don't ever notice anymore.

Can you blame him though?


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[DComeaux]

Nice hunt!

[Ericdc]

Date: 9/24/22

Time: waited until 9

Location: same as yesterday

Cloud Cover: didn't seem as crystal clear as yesterday early.

Wind Direction and Velocity: dead calm maybe breath of variable here and there.

Temperature: hot

Barometer:

Moon phase: sliver

Special Notes: good breakfast afterwards at camp




Waterfowl Activity: very little. Biggest bunch we saw was flushed by alligator hunters north of us and they went to south end of lake

Waterfowl Responsiveness: the 3 that wanted to work came pretty.

Hunters: Corey Ryan Simon jared and I

Guns:

Malfunctions: took about 10 shots to kill 3 birds in the decoys.

Dog(s): Boone

Special Equipment: spinners and wonderducks

Kudos: easy hunt

curses: no flight

Birds By Species:
3 blue winged teal

Photo Ops:





Watching the alligator hunters



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[Ericdc]

Date: 9/25/22

Time: packed up at 8:30

Location: same place as previous 2 days

Cloud Cover: mostly clear

Wind Direction and Velocity: light north

Temperature: comfortable to hot

Barometer:

Moon phase: almost new?

Special Notes: we looked like some of Rick's first time hunters

Waterfowl Activity: saw 3 or 4 bunches

Waterfowl Responsiveness: decent

Hunters: jared and I

Guns:

Malfunctions: forgot to load my gun after firing 2 shots, so only had 1 shot on our best op

Dog(s):

Special Equipment: several spinners

Kudos: easy hunt

curses: didn't make good on our 2 groups. First bunch didn't give us a good shot
Last group of about 8 came perfect and I got 2 with my 1 shot then jared only got 1 after they flared up perfectly.

Birds By Species:
4 blue winged teal

Photo Ops:




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[Ducaholic]

Love the scenery!

[MARSH BEAR]

Great looking duck pond

[Ericdc]

It's a special place to me, being that it's where I learned to hunt on my own and we used to paddle our boat to the blind in high school because we wanted to go so bad but didn't have a motor.


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[Ericdc]

Made first trip up to the lease today since May.

It's very dry, most all of the crops are out except for some cotton and beans.

Most cotton I've seen in the Jones area since I've been up there.

Our beans were cut but field wasn't disked, which I'm fine with. Makes it easier to walk, since I do most of the fetching.

Very pleased with the amount of vegetation that's now growing on levee road compared to how it was in years past.

Lots of thick Johnson grass on north side of pit that'll I'll have to thin out some, but since we shoot more birds to the south, it'll help hide us more when birds pass upwind or on the south wind days.







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[DComeaux]

Looking good.

[MARSH BEAR]

Could be critters in that pit blind

[Darren]

Looking good.

My thoughts as well. When they usually put water on it? Right before opener?

[Ericdc]

Could be critters in that pit blind

We've never had a snake.

We've had a mudcat and bull frogs when we had rice.

I looked into it yesterday and only about a foot of water in pit. Been a real dry year overall, no flooding rains to overtop pit.


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