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RMC

I did bring them back to have a few to mount. Have a harli, teal and a pair of pacific eider that have been mounted. Also on the trip, we took a fairly good number of ptarmigan and a couple caribou to eat as well. Will have to post pics of those too.

The dog question is easy. Alaska Air is the hunter's best friend. They fly dogs for a flat rate of $100. And they do an awesome job. They always treat us well. That dog in the pictures is HRCH UH Clipper's Dakota Hunter - "Dakota". Also, AK Air flies 100 lb boxes of meat at checked bag price. Flew 400 lbs of meat home for $200. Not bad considering what other airlines charge. I love AK Air!

Teal mounted from the trip...



Bull caribou... (We were there in about two months ago now. The bulls had already lost their antlers.)



First day ptarmigan hunt - 28 in a day. A record for us but the dog helps a lot out there.

Joe-

We took a rig of all cork and wood birds as well as hand made silos. The silos in the picture are floating on a V board. Can't find duck silos that we like so we make our own. We also use V boards to float commercial made geese silos that are readily available.

My partner and I's plastic company makes and sells the V boards that the silos go on as well as a land based model.

There are free patterns for the silos and more information on the V boards on our website. www.sittingducks-ltd.com

Here are some on the Bering Sea while hunting for Pacific Eider.



Fuzzy picture of one batch of harli decoys.

Craig,

I'd always wanted to hunt with Ken as well but he'd not gunned for years and years even when I knew him in the mid-80's. He'd been a guide at one time and actually gave advertised calling lessons at the club he worked for.

I've got one of his very early goose calls without the name branded on it and the extra large bell mouthpiece. It's the earliest semi-commercial type. The only thing earlier is a straight barrel goose call made from cedar he did when he first got started and just gave to friends. I only know of one of those, have been hunting one for ages to add to the collection.


Destry

Tudurgs, and then came the Wildlife & Countryside Act and goosanders got protection in Scotland. As a result they multiplied and spread south and now they are a pest in England. I am semi retired but work part time as a Riverkeeper; that is I look after the fishing interests and ecology of a section of the River Dove in England for the land owner, the same river made famous by Izaak Walton but I look after the section below where he mainly fished. As a result I can get a special licese to cull them from 1st. September through to 15th. April. Pity they are inedible! Lagopus.....

Pic from a couple years ago. I don't use the forearm on that Western Field 12 ga when hunting waterfowl....just collects water underneath.

Great Looking Teal mount Cory.

tunes

The frozen tundra of East Rockaway, NY last Saturday, 1/22/11. The black ducks wouldn't come near us but it was a good day for Canada Geese and brant.

We're less than 2 miles for the NYC line. Every so often I would think I was catching a glimpse of a goose in the corner of my eye but when I turned my head it was a jet landing at JFK.

I'm holding a Stoeger 12ga.

All too glad to post pics of the kids. That was me with the kids all limited out on turkeys with double guns. Here is the oldest boy with his first goose, his gun isn't in the picture, but it is a Savage 330 that both my Father and I shot. He took this goose with 3/4oz of #5 nice shot at 1300 fps and about 20 yards out. The chessie is "Copper," and she is a hunting machine. There is a pic of her with the same goose, it isn't very good, but you can see she doesn't let something like a goose get in the way of a retrieve.





Here is that same boy with his first grouse earlier in the same day, here he has his savage in the pic, (not a duck pic, but couldn't resist).

Just got home from Arkansas last night and brought a few pics, as promised.


Wednesday mornings' results, 7 limits of mallards and 5 others


My Arkansas buddies


And my grandson with a few blackjacks in Jawja


all my best, Stan