A few pics

Here are a few pictures I had on my camera from hunts this year.

This was with Martin and Samantha last Saturday. It was slow and Samantha would conveniently "see" ducks that just went behind the reeds...I think she had ducks on the brain. We didn't shoot much, but I sure had a good time.

Here is Guage. He is turning into an amazing duck dog.
Here is Guage learning about the Mutt Hutt blind.

I left work a couple hours early and went out with Brandon and one of the Secretary's husband (Yancy). It was Yancy's first time duck hunting. We tried jump shooting and a couple hen spoonies came up and Yancy dropped the one on the right and I missed the front one. I'm usually a pretty good shot so I was a little surprised I missed as close as they were. We jumped a hen widgeon and I shot first, but she was in the trees in the river, and I didn't hit her hard enough. Yancy finished her off for his second duck. We threw out a couple decoys, but the birds just wouldn't quite come close enough. On the way out I shot a hen spoony, and I believe it is the one I missed earlier in the day. Not too bad for a hen slaying day. I took a couple pics of Yancy and his first two ducks, but my camera isn't very good and they didn't turn out at all.