good duck flight

steyrman2

Got a invite today to wexford duck shooting we met up for 6.45 am and give our hide number i had drawn a good hide fellow wildfowlers had told me . Once i got in my hide 7 am was start of shooting i could here teal and pintail well out of range and geese as light was slow to come minus 2 this morning with a slight west wind i started to seen the ducks a lot of them were out of range i could here shots in the distance . It was my turn 4 mallard came up the channel i gasve them good lead but not enough i have never seen as many geese in my life thousands of them loads in range but out of season teal and pintail mixed in . I got my eye in and shot a nice drake well it would have being better if i was aiming for him i did fire at the lead drake and killed the third one as the light got better the wind started to calm down still the ducks came a lot out of range lots of shooting up and down i bagged a few more i have shot a lot of ducks over the years but nothing would prepare you for this ducks flying at 40 mph with a tail wind . Lots of geese coming over me well with in range i just took my hat off to them as a mark of respect it started to slow down around 11 am i had a great morning a good chat with other guns and back for a big fry up my lab max worked well picking up a nice few ducks including on wounded duck he had dived 3 or 4 times and he kept after him and got him long swim but well worth it pic of some of the bag

garyc007

sounds good. i wish i knew of somewhere around here with those numbers of duck!

jellybaby21

Nice bag and sounds a good day out.

patdahat

savage morning you had, be lucky to get a pair of duck in 5 month's here.

browning 12 bore

i just have one very very imported question how in the name of god did you get the ducks to pose and stay still like that for the camera cause they definilty were not shot buy a half blind and deaf lad like you lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
god this a great bit of banter lol lol lol

SARZY

Steyrman,

If you get an invite again and cant make it just give me a shout and I will drop Everything.

Great stuff.

Like someone else said, to see 2 together where I am would be a miracle.

steyrman2

browning 12 bore wrote: »

i just have one very very imported question how in the name of god did you get the ducks to pose and stay still like that for the camera cause they definilty were not shot buy a half blind and deaf lad like you lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
god this a great bit of banter lol lol lol

Now now people in glass houses should not throw stones i have made a appointment with the local eye specialist for you you have blind goat lol