Last day lazy

I had a field that had geese on it yesterday, but I'm saving it for a shoot tomorrow.
So to round out the year I'm taking it easy and getting some chores done. However this week has treated me pretty well, with 2 geese on Monday and 3 on Tuesday.

I had limit on Tuesday before Bob and Tom were over. For those of you not in the "know" Bob and Tom are a radio show that ends at 10:00am. I had one flock that I called in and dropped my 3 birds from it, done time to pick up and head for the house. I did want to get back out today but the water has turned hard, with no hopes of it turning soft again anytime soon.

I had to break the ice to get back into the ramp, more than I had to break to just get out.

Duck season is over

Well duck season ended last week, I hunted Tues. and Thurs. for waterfowl and only got 1 Mallard on Thursday.
 I also hunted for coon on Wed. night and shot 2, unfortunately I didn't bring either one home. I still can't believe I didn't get either coon. Here's what happened... I was walking to one of my calling spots and I saw 3 sets of eyes in a tree. So being the opportunist I am I started inching closer and setting up for the shot. When I was close enough I shot and dropped the first coon, after the shot the other coons started scurrying for the ground. I lined up the second coon and shot, both coons dropped. So I started walking over to pick up my prizes only to find blood trails. Here's the bad part, it had started raining and hour before so by the time I shot the ground was already wet. So I was able to pick up the blood trail of only one of the coons. I followed it for about a fifty yards then I lost it, the rain had washed it away. There wasn't anything else I could do but move on, I don't like loosing game but it's not like I didn't try to recover them.
Anyway I sat on the water all day on Christmas day and finally had a pair of mallards come sailing in. When I shot, the drake and hen had aligned perfectly and both went down. The hen went down and straight underwater so I waited for her to come up to put her down again. When she came up she didn't just sit on the water, she took off out of the water like a rocket. I shot 2 more times trying to drop her but luck was on her side and she got away. The drake on the other hand got to ride in my truck.

Went all week without firing a shot

Well at least that is true for geese, I hunted every day but Thursday and never even took the safety off.
I went out Wednesday night for coon and only managed one. I saw four others but they were on private property so I couldn't shoot 'em. I am going to make at least one more trip down to Mississinewa after I get my new foxpro. Last week when I was down there I found a beaver pond and I think if I put a babbling brook sound on the foxpro the beaver will come to investigate it.
Since everyone is into selfies these days I took a selfie too, it was with my camera but I still think it should be considered a selfie.

I shot that muskrat right early in the morning. That answers the age old question,"if I shoot a muskrat in the water will it sink?" No would be the answer. I saw him swimming along and "snuck" up to within 30 yards, aimed a little high and let the steel fly. When I got up to him he was floating on a weed mat. I took him and dropped him in the water and sure enough he floated. So I added one more pelt to my fur pile, which I hoping to bring in today after the morning duck hunt. $$$$$

couple week check in

Well it seems I haven't been on here for a couple weeks so let's start with the first week of December. As I go back over my pics I only found one, that tells me it was a slow week. Oh, wait a minute I was sick that week, I took a couple days off to recoup. Now it makes a little more sense that I only have one pic to show for that week. I am still hunting the water and have yet to hit the fields for ducks and geese.
I had a chance to hit one of my fields for ducks but passed it up for some stupid reason.
Lesson learned: When there's fowl in the field today better shoot it tomorrow because you don't know how long they'll stay.
OK back to the water hunt I dropped 3 ducks out of one flock. I was able to secure a goose out of a flock that landed out of range and then swam in.

Last week I had Monday off due to weather, so I hung out and got some traps ready.
On Tuesday I goose hunted in the morning with no luck. Tuesday night (11 pm) into Wednesday morning I coon hunted, then in the morning (8 am) I switched clothes into all orange and deer hunted. Tuesday night I only saw 2 sets of eyes one of which came home with me. Then Wednesday around 9:15 am when I had just started my day of walking up deer I jumped a little doe, that I promptly dispatched. I gotta tell ya she looked bigger when she was running. So even though I was disappointed with her size, we'll have some deer meat this year. I'm hoping to get out to my private property to try for another deer, since I took this one off public I can't take any more off public property.

Then on Thursday I went down to Huntington for the pheasant clean up. I had walked two and a half fields without seening a bird. In my head I was already strategising  what my next move would be. This was the lateset I have tried for pheasant, usually I go down the week right after Thanksgiving. So with the thought of most of the pheasants gone already I was going down the list of places to hit next.
When all of a sudden in the very nest corn row sat a pheasant. Bang.... then another pheasant got up an flew from my right to my left, Bang.. limit within 1 minute.

This week so far has been a bust, I went goose hunting yesterday with no luck. Checked my traps- no luck, I'm going out goose hunting today and it's raining right now. And as we all know I hate hunting in the rain I'm hoping that if I persevere I will be rewarded with a goose or two but who knows. I might just be going out to get myself and my gear soaked.
Keep your fingers crossed for me.

Sooo Sad

Take a minute and ask yourself, "why am I getting this posting when Lost should be out there... well Lost?"
Answer in a nutshell: I AM SICK

I started feeling sick on Thursday when my throat wasn't feeling quite right. By Friday it felt like a dozen leprechauns were tap dancing in my throat with golf spikes on. Today I'm congested in my head and chest, my ears are ringing and I'm generally just unpleasant to be around. I worked all weekend hoping that it would just pass. Not that lucky I guess, so now I'm at home coughing, wheezing and sneezing hoping I'm not going to miss out on all 4 days of hunting.
Well enough of my problems, last week ended with 3 drake mallards and a bonus muskrat.
A muskrat????
I have seen muskrat there before and since I'm there all week I decided to get and set a trap. I figured I might as well make some extra money as long as I'm already on the water. The first day nothing but the second yielded a nice fat rat. Now I'm starting to think I should expand my trapping efforts. I do t alot of scouting for ducks and geese and I could set and check quite a few traps on my travels. I'm still putting that together and probably won't start til next year but it's rattlin' around up there.

Here's the pics

This pic was taken with my phone because I forgot my camera.