2016-17 log book

[Rick]

Back when mine were all in good shape, I experimented some with mixing 2nd generation HCs and 1st generation DSDs vs using those similarly sized but different coloration shaded decoys separately or at least well separated and found it best not to mix them. (When used together but well separated, finishing birds showed distinct preference for the HCs - perhaps more poses, perhaps small sample coincidence.) By the same token, a friend who runs five dozen DSDs and five dozen Blue Collars ended up doing appreciably better without the Blue Collars until he repainted the lot so their shades matched.

[DComeaux]

dem specks gonna smell dat new paint...better spray dem wit some speck in heat when you done painting.

[Ericdc]

dem specks gonna smell dat new paint...better spray dem wit some speck in heat when you done painting.

Haha. This one could smell the sausage we was cooking.




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[Rick]

Don't know if they can smell fresh paint, sausage or even speck in heat, but the statistics suggest they think my feet stink.

[Rick]

Might shoulda fed 'em. A fellow who worked for a company owning one of the private super places in Arkansas once told me how many tons of corn they flew into their timber after the season in hopes of better imprinting mallards for the following year. Don't remember the tonnage, just that it was an impressive effort. Do believe at least some birds seem to imprint on certain areas and even individual fields. Not that the cheating bastages are all that faithful once there.

I was showing blinds from up to Indian Bayou, between Kaplan and Rayne, to down on the Intracoastal south of Klondike yesterday, and most of the landscape is already getting spooky barren of birds.

[Ericdc]

Showing blinds?


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[Rick]

The annual shuffle is on.

[Ericdc]

The annual shuffle is on.

Already huh. You help manage a lot of leases for different landowners plus Doug's stuff?


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[Rick]

Nope. Just the only one who knows where all of Doug's blinds are.

[Ericdc]

Nope. Just the only one who knows where all of Doug's blinds are.

10-4 and he's got a bunch I assume


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[Rick]

From the onset, it's always been "Doug's Sweet Sublets and Well Used Hunting Lodge".

[Ericdc]

Hahaha


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[Darren]

runs five dozen DSDs

$$$$$, no?

[Rick]

And five dozen Blue Collars. $$$$$, yes.

He's not wealthy, just speck crazy. Has the only roll-top I've ever enjoyed hunting out of:


And is always experimenting with potential tolling improvements, like his real deal flapper:


Has also built a feeder that runs intermittently around a track that, like a lot of things, sometimes seems to help, but I don't think he ran it at all this year. (Sort of like the commercially made "X-Flapper" I bought second hand from him, modified the bugs out of and then never use, I suppose.)

[Rick]

John, if you hit the quote button, you can see the section of the youtube url behind the "=" sign that embeds that video here when placed in the "youtube" brackets.

[Rick]

I like the fact you can see through that top in places---blended into that levee it must be very effective.

He teases me for still hiding behind the blind's wall and peeking over its top, when all one really has to do under that broken cover is hold reasonably still. It's a great speck blind in that everyone can see exactly where the birds are without those who normally don't or can't hide well running birds off. We short folk can stand under it, and it doesn't roll fast enough to flare much on its own.