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Neat pics, Gr8day. I love that place. What loads were you using in that Fox?

Were you by any chance hunting with Billy Blakely?

SRH

Thanks. Kent Bismuth #4. No we were in another blind.

We took a short trip today with Pop, Sadie and my Muttpak to familiar woods where we've seen birds this season.� Floyd's daughter accompanied us.� Today, we managed to flush only one with no shot and couldn't find it again.� The area has sparse rivercane, hardwoods and is wet with islands of above water ground.� It's depicted below.�We went to another area we half-heartedly hunted a few years ago at day's end and Abby had a distant point but it flushed.� Today, it had more rivercane which gave denser cover than in years past and significantly denser than what is depicted in the first photo of the first area we hunted today.� We wouldn't have found two points without gps collars as the dogs were barely visible at 5 yards. It is pictured below as well.� We found 3 birds in the second area and Floyd managed to take advantage of the "Popportunity"� (Credit to Floyd's daughter) over 11 year-old Pop's point. Pop may not have the speed of the other dogs, but he is steady and finds birds the others miss.� We were flummoxed on two more points with the birds not giving us clear shots with one flying at my head and swiftly putting trees between me and it.� For the MuttPak, Gil
Sparse rivercane cover:
Dense rivercane cover, shoulder high:

Looks like fun.

Gil, don't lose that leather lanyard. The come dearly. I've always admired them though...Geo

Note the single swan decoy in the Ducker. First time I shot a Tundra Swan on a river. Birds spent three weeks in flooded soybeans only a half mile east of my place. Hundreds of acres were inundated by massive releases of water from reservoirs due to the heavy rains in Sept. and freakish early October snowstorm of nearly two feet. Bird was a young of the year and very tender.

I'm trying to get gizzard contents analyzed as if bean fragments positively identified it would be the first documented case of swans eating beans in ND. Too bad there were none in esophagus or proventriculus as it would have been much easier.

Nice! What kind of boat is that?

I think we all like that boat!

Man that is a big bird!

They certainly are big. I would like to take one. Just one. In Iowa there are no swans to hunt. We have Trumpeter swans and I don't know how they compare to Tundras, but they are huge beasts compared to Giant Canadas.

Just one would be fine. It would feed me for a couple of weeks I think.