1 week

That's all we have for the late duck season, and the week started on Sat. Since I hadn't done any scouting and just wanted a real easy hunt I would see if Mike wanted to go to the river on Christmas Morning. Well he couldn't make the morning but said he could do the afternoon.
When we got down to the river we saw that someone had been down there Saturday, and had a really good shoot, judging by all the shotgun shells everywhere. Well we stuck it out in the hope that a couple ducks and geese would come back. They did but only 2 ducks and maybe a dozen geese. I took a poke at the ducks, I dropped both but only found one.

I chased the mallard for an hour before he gave me the slip.
Tuesday it rained all day so I spent the day scouting for Wednesday. As it turns out, I found a field that in all actuality I got permission on back in 2010. I had not hunted it because for what ever reason the birds just hadn't showed up again until Tues. So once again I gave Mike a call to see it he could make it. He had something to do in the evening, but said he could make the morning 'til about 1. So off we went in the frozen morning to try and get some birds. I had been watching the birds in the area and there were plenty of geese and ducks around so my hopes were high.
We had been set up for about 30 minutes when the first four pack came in. The birds worked perfectly and just when they were going to set down I called the shot. 2 birds stayed and 2 went in search of greener pastures. Next was a dozen or so birds that wanted to come in. Well they split up and we had a four pack ready to land while the rest of the flock was still unsure. I have always believed in, "a bird in the hand" so I called the shot and all four stayed on the ground. Next was a split threesome with one way out in front, just in a hurry to make a new friend. I called and when the goose was right out in front I told Hunter to smoke him, one shot one goose. We had another threesome come in looking for company, but we were all outside the blinds and couldn't get closed up in time to convince them to come in.

Tuesday's final- I got 3, Mike and Hunter got 2 apiece.
We had 2 ducks fly over when we were all out of our blinds and not paying attention. 😭

Oh yeah and here's the kicker. Since last week I had noticed there was a grinding sound coming from my rear tires. I chalked it up to road grime on my rotors, so I got the truck washed. Then when I was backing up the brakes were acting kind of weird. So I had Mike get out and watch them when I was backing up. That's when he noticed I had 0 pad left and the rotor was ground away pretty bad. So I called around to get an appointment for pads and rotors (both sides were bad) and was able to get into the shop Jan 4th. So needless to say the truck is not leaving the driveway for the rest of this week and next week....... maybe I'll have to go coyote hunting.