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A friend of mine, a big brant hunter, invited Sam out for today's junior brant hunt. There were five juniors shooting. The bay was absolutely loaded with brant. All us dad's were drooling. The two guys running the show were very patient, only calling shots on birds that were locked up just feet above the water, directly in front of the boys. They passed on several close groups that made us dad's cringe. But these guys knew what they were doing and wanted the boys to be successful on every flock. By 9:00 all boys had their limits. My buddy's son, the oldest boy in the group, shot a triple banded bird. Band on each leg and a toe tag. Very cool. Sam had a blast. Five minutes after the boys shot their final two birds, we all stood at the blind BSing and high fiving. Next thing we know brant were landing in the decoys not even 20 yards from us. I got a good video of it but don't know how to embed it. Anyone want help?




I've got other pictures but the other boys are in em. Don't wanna post without permission.

Is that legal in California?

Nice birds.

Very cool Aaron, tell Sam good job!

Nice job Aaron! Tell Sam I am really jealous of his geese. Glad to hear the kids had such a great hunt.

Tell them all congrats, that is badass.

That's awesome you let them call their own shots and did great doing it at that!

Way to keep the tradition going.

That is sweet. I love shooting brant, the way they come in low and plop right in.

Awesome

Cool. And bands to top it off.


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I've got two short videos of them landing in the decoys if anyone wants to embed it for me

Wow, I would give anything to shoot a brant. They are a rare sight here

Congratulations to all involved

Red, upload it to photobucket, then copy the link to here.

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What's the yellow band for?

Goldfish wrote:Red, upload it to photobucket, then copy the link to here.

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http://s1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff4 ... 589C47.mp4

http://s1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff4 ... 5CBF2D.mp4

Did that work?

Juice Box wrote:What's the yellow band for?

yellow for awesome

Awesome tarsal tag!

Juice, that kind of band is meant to allow sightings to be reported by encounters other than killing the bird, i.e. bird watchers. Same theory as a neck collar.
Red, tell the boys I'm jealous.

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Damn I can't see the pics in tapatalk but sounds awesome, live that shit

Nice!!

"are you sure we have 10??" been there many times myself.

nice!

Sweeeetttt!!!!!
Tell Sam congrats.

Awesome job, red! Very jelly

Wow that's pretty cool, tell Sam I'm very jealous.

Good job Red. Sam is getting raised right!

Thats on the topic of my bucket list!!!! Good going Sam

Great job man!

Very well done...