Shotgun Therapy

 Went out on my first hunt of the young duck season.  Despite reports that there are no birds I knew that they were out there, because I'd seen teal, wood ducks, and pintails while scouting. ONE MALLARD DRAKE, AND A MALE AND FEMALE BW TEAL I walked in pulling our ag-waggon full of gear well before dawn.  I needed a good head start.  I got to my spot and set up in a great location.  I was using 2 blue bills, 4 mallards (one of them a vibrating mojo), 3 bluewing teal, and one Canada goose.  I was all set about half an hour before shooting time. 20 min before shooting time, a male wood duck lands in my spread and hangs out about 15 minutes.  He was less than ten yards from me and never saw me.  Eventually he decided that these other ducks were rude and flew off.  10 min before shooting time, a fight of bluewing teal came through,  two peeled off and landed.  They flew off a few minutes later when the flight came back through and they r...

17ft Express with a 75 horse Mercury.  Working to get it underway for a long and spectacular duck season.   Two new batteries - Done! Electrical fixed-  Lower unit oil changed- Engine oil and filter replaced -  Tags-   Still lots to do!!!!!!    

  After extensive research and hand ringing I finally settled on the hunting dog of the future.  And the winner is...... FRENCH BRITTANY I wanted a dog that hunted close, which made me look at the spaniels, but a friend recommended that I look at the Brittany.  The Brittany hunts close (in fact, it was called the Brittany Spaniel, and the French still call it that), but it also points.  Bonus.....  They are apparently very easy to train. I got lucky, and found an AKC registered puppy not 1 hour from my house.  We looked, we played, we chose.  We now have a tiny terror whose name is Thibodeaux.  Since the breed is French, we were looking for a French name, but at the same time, it is the American branch of the breed, so an American name seemed appropriate.   Thibodeaux is French Cajun, and it can be translated as "Bold one." We call him Tibbs, or for those who are cinema nerds, we call him Mr. Tibbs! As you can see, he and Brock-Lee have ...