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Doves and woodies

You like em rare huh?

Chewy bacon FTW!

I grilled salmon with lemon juice and strips of bacon laid over the top, seasoned and wrapped in tin foil, baked potatoe rice and salad.

That was the pic before they went on the grill. 3 leg that sounds good

oh yeah?! well, i had Denny's french toast, eggs, and bacon (although it was burnt ). so HA!!!!

broccoli wrote:That was the pic before they went on the grill. 3 leg that sounds good

Ya, the salad part made me feel like it was a healthy dinner.

Looks good! Cookout last night with dove, along with too much Jim Beam. Too bad we can't shoot woodies during the early season here, they were everywhere on the river yesterday morning. Did make for some good steadiness training for Taz, splashing down in the dekes, whistling like crazy and walking around on the sandbar made it very tempting for him.

jarbo03 wrote:Looks good! Cookout last night with dove, along with too much Jim Beam. Too bad we can't shoot woodies during the early season here, they were everywhere on the river yesterday morning. Did make for some good steadiness training for Taz, splashing down in the dekes, whistling like crazy and walking around on the sandbar made it very tempting for him.

I wish we had more woodrows in california. I've never shot one. We've got a few mountain ponds that hold a few each but I can never get on the birds

Redbeard wrote:

jarbo03 wrote:Looks good! Cookout last night with dove, along with too much Jim Beam. Too bad we can't shoot woodies during the early season here, they were everywhere on the river yesterday morning. Did make for some good steadiness training for Taz, splashing down in the dekes, whistling like crazy and walking around on the sandbar made it very tempting for him.

I wish we had more woodrows in california. I've never shot one. We've got a few mountain ponds that hold a few each but I can never get on the birds

I shoot very few during regular season, but they are everywhere during teal season. Kansas needs to get with the program like other states and have woodies with early teal.

We used to have a lot more of them around here (at least in the swamp behind the farm). Occasionally I'll see them in the marsh, but they usually fly too early around here- definitely the first duck you'll "see" when hunting where I hunt, but I've only ever shot one. Sometimes in the evenings (when I don't have a gun, or am sitting in a treestand on a field edge) there will be groups of 5 or 6 that will circle and work the cut corn fields for about 9 laps, buzzing by me about 10 yards away each time. Irritating.

Wood ducks can be had up here but only for a very short time. I've never shot one in MI.

I have shot maybe 20 in my years hunting. Would like to shoot more, to me they are the best eating duck along with teal.

the kids should be putting a smack down on them this weekend, Jr can only shoot hens though, he has the same problem as assa with pintails. i have seen him double on crossing teal with a sxs and then minutes later miss a big drake wood duck sitting on the water in front of him 20 yards out, jgun has witnessed it also ...

I almost wrote "jgun has seen jr choke on woodies a few times too" god that is horrible, thank god I didnt

Wow! :lol:

Hope the kids put a good smack down on them! Good thing you re phrased your words, would have sounded bad!

That would have been one of the worst slips yet!

JGUN wrote:Wow! :lol:

seriously though, its amazing how easy some of the shots have been that he has missed isnt it, its like he forgets to even shoulder the gun???

Yeah it's Assa bad.

I bet some DHC guys choked on a few woodies this week