Returning to the River

I had a flock of sandhill fly over me hunting Monday, them dudes sound weird lol

@Adam they sound weird, look weird and taste good!

Gratulacje! (thats Polish for Congratulations!)🦆👍👊

I wish it was open for us. They are PILING up on the way to you…..

@Mike that would be hard to watch, hope they make it all the way down 🤞

@Appalachian we’ve got a 2 day season this weekend so I’ve been scouting. Hopefully they stick around. We went from 12° to 48° just overnight. This was 2 days ago.

@Mike are you serious??? That is insane!

@Mike wow!

@Appalachian yeah. And this creek runs 1/2 mile south and 80% of it looked like this….

@David exactly…..

@Mike holy crap man, I have never seen such that will be an hunt of a lifetime

@Appalachian 🙏 🤞

@Mike Good luck! Shoot strait! I'll be in a swamp in the morning that only gets hunted a couple times a year. It's holding a few hundred mallards currently. And a ton of woodies. Only problem is the landowner likes to do it like a dove shoot so when you got a few committed someone across the swamp shoots and flares the big ducks. But we usually wear the woodies out!

@Appalachian good luck to you too! Hopefully these birds don’t move on. I had 13-1400 dark geese hit the neighbors cornfield behind my house the other day. Secured permission that night. Hasn’t been a single bird back in it since…..

@Mike I always say half the time we are working off of old news when it comes to the birds. Just gotta be there that moment in time they decide to put their feet down. Speaking of which I know of a few sandhill cranes that put their feet down for the last time this morning 😁

@Mike

@Mike here's my mini refuge, can't hunt it but I can use it as an indicator

@Mike here's my mini refuge, I can't hunt it but I can use it as an indicator

@Appalachian hahaha, yep. I’ve been on the X a handful of times and none of them were expected. We had a blizzard last week and saw too many Sandhills to count. Man I wish we had a season on em up here..

@Mike well if you ever want to mark them off the list put in for the tn draw and I'll take you to the crane nest. We are at the bottleneck of the migratory path. The limit is just 2 but there's plenty of other pursuits this time of year as well. Ducks, musky,deer, pigs...

@Appalachian it’d be worth it for 2. I’ll have to dig into that!👊

@Mike only see something like that in my dreams. Thats wild that its a creek!

@David I’ve seen it so thick with ducks and geese that you could walk across without getting wet. It’s a refuge, but accessible hunting isn’t far away.

@Mike we have a refuge here where there'll be thousands of them but spread all across the lakes and wetlands. I've just never seen that many congregated in such a small area.

nice ducks

you and me shoot a kabisback

@Ryan thanks buddy, that one I have there is a drake redhead

Nice ducks