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[Anotherone]

More: if you see another hunter and they do this one finger wave thing...

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It means....
I see you and I hate your lying cock-sucking face.

You'd think the Robertson family would have covered this

LOL! They wave at me like that too! Those deceiving bastards!

[Ricky Spanish]

This morning my call was stuck.
I've got a duck commander two reed that is modified.
Got it out at 6:30. I'm trying to unstuck it...
Tick tick...tried a quack and a skwark came out.
Two greenheads hovered then land in my spread that I can't shoot it's 636 and lst is 641.
I'm the closest hole to the launch and if Malone is there I'm toast.
Don't do it.

[Ricky Spanish]

Now today ...all ethics and love for other hunters is long gone so if they try and land early today they're dead. No mercy.

[Ricky Spanish]

The other day "hunter" let something slip.
He thought he was being funny but it cut.
It's a duck hunter thing...yep.
He repeated someone else's opinion and I KNOW that if I confronted the guy about "hey hunter said you said" and all hell breaks loose so just walk away and spit.

At least I know why Henry and Chad are being goofy.
I'm actually glad to burn this bridge.
One of many.
When they realize that they get NO MORE HUNNY is going to sting.

Unreal but I've got signal at Hutton hole.
No bars but it's working

Lying has gotten extreme so I sent them a picture of a king eider I shot in the elk chute.

[Anotherone]

Lol! Ricky Spanish unchained!

[Jimmy]

The other day "hunter" let something slip.
He thought he was being funny but it cut.
It's a duck hunter thing...yep.
He repeated someone else's opinion and I KNOW that if I confronted the guy about "hey hunter said you said" and all hell breaks loose so just walk away and spit.

At least I know why Henry and Chad are being goofy.
I'm actually glad to burn this bridge.
One of many.
When they realize that they get NO MORE HUNNY is going to sting.

Unreal but I've got signal at Hutton hole.
No bars but it's working

Lying has gotten extreme so I sent them a picture of a king eider I shot in the elk chute.

Yes AB. Everyone is douchenozzle except you. Imagine that.

[Anotherone]

Enter The_Duck_Master

[Ricky Spanish]

Yesterday at around 9:30 Keefer and Randy showed up in the hole I was using.
They're like 80 years old and have hunted there almost 60 years. I've known them for ten years but never saw them not in a pickup. They had a boat.
I was in the Hutton hole and Randy is Randy Hutton the blind builder.
They wanted to talk about the good old days and how it sucks now.
They said it sucked like this in the 80s when we had points system.
It's not the first drought you know.

[Anotherone]

I bet they have some stories of mallard cyclones in that timber from wayback. Good times.

[Ricky Spanish]

I bet they have some stories of mallard cyclones in that timber from wayback. Good times.

Hutton is a guy I don't see much but we talked at the ramp for years. Seeing him with decoys and the works shocked me.
He looks like he's 55 or 60 maybe.
I see Keefer a lot he stops at my tent to chat.
He looks his age. 85.
Those two went to different schools, Dell and Manila, and hunted way back in the early 50s.
From what I can gather it has bad years along with the droughts. It's bad now.
Everyone hating on each other....typical.
It's fishing with guns and the fish numbers are way down
An abundance of blame to go around and the blamers have never been north of the state line so they're clueless about corn and no-till ag.
They ask me what kind of rice we grow up here.

[Ricky Spanish]

One of the kookiest theories I've had to listen to was from this drunk guy who don't hunt no more.
He went on about the 90s...
He said that back then the wma would get filled slowly and you could keep in wadeable water most of the duck season.
He blames the biologist?
I tried explaining that the hydrology of the lake didn't change the weather did.
Big Lake has a reputation of not having water right early for the first split.
Conflict: deer hunters like it dry.
They wait to flood the wma. It better for the trees to get the water in and out fast which is the goal.
It fills up very fast with a good storm.
The drunk was whining about it and he don't even hunt ducks. He blamed the state for logging it out and screwing things up.

I don't know I haven't looked for years but the north end has all these x's and O's if you google it on maps.
I wondered what it was.
They logged it In them areas.
They were hot spots but today are so overgrown with saplings that you can't go there but ducks can.
That's an example.
Years ago if it was icy you could murder the mallards in them.logged out spots.

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[Ricky Spanish]

When it's dark, no moon, the clouds are low and go all the way up to the stratosphere the ducks are a whole lot easier to call. It's dark and they're searching with their ears. Just some ducky noises will do not a main street routine.

Two groups came in on me in this video.
Too dark to shoot it's way early

[Ricky Spanish]

When it's dark, no moon, the clouds are low and go all the way up to the stratosphere the ducks are a whole lot easier to call. It's dark and they're searching with their ears. Just some ducky noises will do not a main street routine.

Two groups came in on me in this video.
Too dark to shoot it's way early

I've got at least 30 halfway decent duck calls which do you think that is? It sounds good echoing off the trees

[Anotherone]

CCC Illinois cut?

[Ricky Spanish]

CCC Illinois cut?

No it's that mvp.
My Illinois cut is re-tuned to blow like a cutdown now.
All the CCC acrylics are cut down style and they kept getting more aggressive.
The final un-named prototype is hot, crisp, loud, raspy, and has contest-like range.
The ducks were shy I was trying a two reed call on Thursday.
If I tried a cutdown they slammed on the brakes and flew away.
The wooden CCC calls probably would have worked but I had them at home. Hedge is always good imo

[Ricky Spanish]

[Anotherone]

Smoky cheese is a very good crop dusting producer. Fun times.

[Ricky Spanish]

Funny story...Nobody was harmed except for feelings were hurt.

I went to home depot.
Spray paint and a sheet of builders foam.
This is where it gets funny.
Total: $21.76
I hand the guy a twenty and two ones and say out loud twenty two.
He sort of panics and quickly rings it up on the machine that does cash.?!?
Uhhhh? Huh?
Yeah so he shoves my 22 bucks in and the machine says I'm 24 cents short.
How in the hell?

Let's do math I like science!
The ppl in line start to laugh.
SUPPOSE the machine miscounted and it thinks it got 21 bucks. That's 76 cents short genius.
How do you get 24?


So he does it all again. 24 cents is the change. I was way ahead of him figuring it out.
Again...how in the hell does that happen?.
How often? Who benefits?
Is that a crime?
Woot woot.


*.* print " I am out of here give me my damn receipt".

[Ricky Spanish]

Yesterday I burned bridges it was a glorious fire.
My "pals" are on the other side of the lake waving and signaling "we want copies of the map".

Right here..

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Look close it's a topo
All those yellow dots and cords are where blinds used to be.

[Duck Engr]

Wow that’s a cool one AB.

[Ricky Spanish]

Wow that’s a cool one AB.

It was about 12 years or maybe 13.
I got taken there one day and liked it so I downloaded the maps from AGFC. Back then you'd google big lake and couldn't miss that map.
They destroyed the blinds and took the map down.
The state archives lost their copy too.
The game wardens , 5 of them, were waiting on me one day. They wanted to take pictures of the map.
Perhaps this is why I get lots of respect from the gw's there.

Warning: some of the holes are overgrown now.
You can be sitting in one and not know it.


AB tip of the day: the very very best spot to set up in timber late season is a freshly fallen gigantic tree.
If lucky you'll find one.

[Ricky Spanish]

In case you hadn't detected it I was mad as hell.
A Jonesboro kid named hunter....sigh he's on everyone's shit list. He started something that was bad.
They talked me off the ledge this afternoon.
Hunter...is an oozer kid. He goes to school full time...Red Wolf.
I asked him if he's ever going to graduate. No.
I would never graduate too.
He gets to hunt like a resident.
Pretty douchy character.
5th year of college

[Ricky Spanish]

Someone has been hunting one of yankeegrays spots and burned it up. Stomped all the cover-grass and made a mess. Hate when that happens.

[Ricky Spanish]

Flashback...
That's my old sea ark and a guy named steamer.

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Has to be around 15 years ago.

[Ricky Spanish]

Let's test your sky knowledge. That's the big dipper.
Name the two circled stars.

#1 is the north star but I forget it's name. Polaris

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#2 is one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere
It's easy to remember.
Find the big dipper the arc of the handle "arcs to Arcturus"
Jack Horkheimer

If lost in the woods at night this info may be important.
Polaris is always north where we hunt.
I'm absolutely amazed how if I bring this up among the kids I hunt around they are completely clueless and think it's weird to know anything about the stars.

[Ricky Spanish]

And then there is this old thing.
In timber to find the west side of the hole and put blind on east requires knowing which way up is.
It sounds simple...

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I sat there once...it was just last year. Was daylight. A boat went by off in the distance. It was going on the North-south ditch heading south. About then my guests started arguing about which direction is what.
I let them continue a while.

Finally I said it. " Guys...the bow of my boat is pointing straight north we are on the east side of the hole.
Your confused because you're Yankees".
"Here the sun rises in the southeast in winter"
"At your house it does too just not so obviously".

15 minutes later they were still arguing.
"Guys my boat hasn't moved and it is still pointed dead north".

Point? It's easy to get turned around in the woods. Very easy

[Ricky Spanish]

Want that!

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I'm running 18 higdon battleships.
If you put a Dakota next to a higdon...
They look a lot alike until you look from above downwards . The Dakota has a bigger wider footprint.

$129 is a Hella good deal.
About decoys. I know lots of guys that wont hesitate to shoot your new decoys. It stings.

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I had this one one day before it got shot.
Shot a fully flocked decoy then later said them hens look weird. I'm like shut the fuck up before I shoot your dakotas

[Ricky Spanish]

Exclusions:
Ever been pestered for weeks about an upcoming group hunt then get excluded? Hunters are extremely flaky people and we all are that.
You show up 350 miles away and THATS WHEN THEY TELL YOU.
Well we didn't plan on 4 dogs so you need to stay with yours in the truck so ____'s 9-year-old bitch can get her final retrieves.
Fine I'll just go home.
(Talking shit to myself all the way)

So if we ever arrange a big group.hunt I will show up and exclude all of you because I'm taking my girlfriend.
She's new in an unopened box.
You can't go. I'm taking Barbie.
How's it feel
? We've been planning this hunt for weeks and you're not included because of Barbie. Surprise!
How long before you set the doll on fire?

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Wow. We must've got this for our daughter when the illini had a basketball team lose a championship.

I've been excluded for some weird reasons. The one that stinks the most is " the kids wanted to go then didn't get up so you got the cut".

So dont even think it..I'll show up with Barbie and send you walking and talking shit to yourselves.

[Ricky Spanish]

Worried about climate change?
The solar climate is much more dangerous.
In 2012 we missed destruction by just nine (9) days.
The sun will destroy the earth . I'm not sure that we can destroy it.
WE DINDU NUFFIN



Hecklefish is loveable so if you catch him please turn him loose.

Why Files...the logo needs a T so it'd be wtf.

[Anotherone]

My take on climate change:
This shit has been happening since the beginning. The earth becomes a hot, humid jungle with reptiles then slowly covers with ice and mammals show up, now we are on the back side of the ice cycle and entering the jungle stage again. Too bad none of us will be around to shoot some flying reptiles over decoys. This rock ain’t nothing but an ever changing ecosystem, just enjoy while you’re here.