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Post by ICMCumin on Oct 24, 2003 13:05:35 GMT -5
What is your favorite wing shooting? (added turkey in as it is a bird, although not normally shot on the wing)
thanks........... ;D
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Post by jdickey on Oct 24, 2003 13:23:57 GMT -5
:'(Hey ICMCumin... boy if I could I would vote again for GEESE, too. If you've never been, get yourself out there and do it! I voted TURKEYS first, because there is a little more challenge! ;D  |
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Post by ICMCumin on Oct 24, 2003 16:35:17 GMT -5
Hey JD: I had a hard time pinning down my favorite too - the deciding factor was my dog - she loves to go duck hunting with me..... Otherwise it was a tossup between quail, duck and turkey with dove following closely behind. I am planning a goose down here in Katy for around (either the weekend before or the weekend after) Thanksgiving - if you're interested - let me know! Thought I saw my first geese of the season while driving into work this AM. When they are here it is a sight to behold - sometimes 5 - 10,000 in the air at one time..........  |
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Post by Dead Eye on Oct 27, 2003 11:44:19 GMT -5
Hey ICMCumin
I need more votes ;D if it flies I like to shoot it ;D ;D ;D
Laters Dead Eye
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Bennie
Hunter
Hico, Texas
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Post by Bennie on Oct 27, 2003 12:45:50 GMT -5
If it flies it dies. I shoot at most of the game birds, notice I didn't say shoot. My favorites would be geese and dove, because of the action. I did see several flights of sandhills saturday and some ducks are already coming in. I know that someone on here will try and convince me that quail fly too!!!! ICM I'm always willing to shoot a goose, not very good at it , but do like to throw heavy shot at em, lets see if we can hook up sometime, if you don't mind helping me off theground I am pretty old. E-mail me and include hunting in the title or it want clear my filters.
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Post by jdickey on Oct 27, 2003 12:59:33 GMT -5
;DHey ICM... the weekend after turkey day would be cool. Would really like to bring my son too. He's 27 so he's not a youngster.
Nothing like a dawn goose hunt for snows & blues. I hunted at Altair and the Blue Goose Lodge about 10 years ago. We set out "rag decoys" and got settled about sunrise. When they took off it looked like the whole ground was rising!
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Post by ICMCumin on Nov 1, 2003 13:43:30 GMT -5
;DHey ICM... the weekend after turkey day would be cool. Would really like to bring my son too. He's 27 so he's not a youngster. Nothing like a dawn goose hunt for snows & blues. I hunted at Altair and the Blue Goose Lodge about 10 years ago. We set out "rag decoys" and got settled about sunrise. When they took off it looked like the whole ground was rising! I'll be calling the guide this next week to try to set it up. Will let ya'll know about the specifics when I get them. |
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bakmc3
New Member
East Texas
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Post by bakmc3 on Nov 27, 2003 0:34:30 GMT -5
i agree with dead eye . i need more vote's, i don't know about pheasant YET,but i will in dec. going on my first pheasant hunt then |
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DoeNob
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Houston, TX
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Post by DoeNob on Nov 29, 2003 20:25:19 GMT -5
As far as wingshooting, I think doves are the best. You get to do lots of shooting, and the targets are some of the most challenging. Second to that, I would say an early season teal hunt presents the most difficult targets. Quail are perhaps third hardest to hit because they are so fast, especially wild, not pen raised quail. If you do enough hunting of these three, every other shot presented seems like a free pass. Like trying to hit a major league fastball and then getting to play one day with an 8th grade pitcher. ;D
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Post by singlecoil on Jan 14, 2004 20:25:48 GMT -5
Chasing scaled quail or "blues" around in S.E New Mexico is my all time favorite wing shooting and IMHO is very challenging. Bring your running shoes cause they will run your a$$ off and either kill a fat boy or get him in shape real fast.
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Post by ICMCumin on Jan 15, 2004 23:31:29 GMT -5
Hey Singlecoil - try snipe hunting in the muck out here in E Texas - they get up about 30 yards away and stay low - my heart was hitting red line trying to keep up with two young guys this past weekend - and I was too proud to say anything about it!  |
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Post by NechesBobcat on Feb 16, 2004 15:35:29 GMT -5
Personaly I don't see how anything could be better than sitting in my favorite swamp/marsh full of saw grass cypress trees and tupelo gum trees and being surrounded by wood ducks and hooded mergansers.  |
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Slew
New Member
Ft. Worth, TX
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Post by Slew on Feb 17, 2004 18:05:23 GMT -5
Mallards and Pintails backpedallin in the dekes? You mean theres other kinds of wingshooting?  Slew  |
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Hooter
Hunter
Carlsbad, NM
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Post by Hooter on Feb 17, 2004 22:13:31 GMT -5
I like to shoot anything that flies, but ducks are #1. I had a great seaon last year. Pretty hard to believe living in New Mexico! Hoote r |
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