Bloody Yank Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 Hello everyone, Had a nice shoot this AM for our "Woodies", the wood duck or summer duck are called woodies here. I think that every time you use the term woodie it is for the wood pigeon. I broke away from our shooting group and hunted a flooded timber swamp with my Boykin Spaniel for company. The rest of the group went to a larger pond and it sounded like I had made the wrong decision by the amount of shooting coming from their direction. It was -10C when we entered the swamp and "Ashley" was alternating from walking on the ice to falling through it, a real struggle for her. At one point my all chocolate brown coated dog was ghost white from ice frosted to her coat. I was able to break enough ice to create a small hole of open water and we left with a nice drake/hen pair for our troubles. I rejoined my group to find that the great shoot I had heard all morning was actually poachers in the pond my party went to and many words were ehchanged with much chest pounding and bravado. My party had not fired the 1st shot! I was shooting a 20 bore Winchester model 12, the finest repeating shotgun ever devised. Definatly a nice morning for me, the look in that little dogs eyes as she tracks the birds coming in reminds me why I hunt and how lucky we are to have their companionship. Will Rogers (1897-1935) sums it up best in my mind "If there are no dogs in heaven,then when I die I want to go where they went." Donnie Some pics..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 First picture says it all........"Go on, shoot another......" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rabgoat Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 brilliant pictures, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webber Posted January 6, 2008 Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 Brilliant pictures and interesting write up. I think that your quotation about dogs and heaven is very apt. I dont have a dog, but wish that I had. You are correct when we refer to woodies we are referring to wood pigeon. webber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaniel Posted January 6, 2008 Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 Hi Sounds like a nice fresh morning strol you had then -10 i think i would of stayed in bed, i went out in -4 the other day and that was enough for me after 2 hours, just to shoot a couple of crows Those Boykins are excellent all round dogs, lovely pics Cheers ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trakker01 Posted January 6, 2008 Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 nice pics , good on ya, nice tool too !! ... whats the flavor like, on the pretty things ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poacher Posted January 6, 2008 Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 Looks like you had the better day by the sounds of it My party had not fired the 1st shot! I love a good ole western shoot out yeeeee haaaaarrr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tikkamark Posted January 6, 2008 Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 Great story and lovely pics,its nice to be able to see what quarry the shooters in different countries are getting They are beautiful looking ducks Donnie i never seen that species before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloody Yank Posted January 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 The Wood ducks are delicious! They are slightly larger than a teal and almost as fast. Limit here is 2 per day, are there any limits on waterfoul there? is steel shot a requirement? We usually have one hunt a year that we require .410's but we have difficulty finding nox toxic shot for them now, the Bismuth company that produced them has gone out of business. Anyone reload .410? any luck with tungsten? I hate to throw steel down the barrel of some of my older shotguns. Donnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starlight32 Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 (edited) The Wood ducks are delicious! They are slightly larger than a teal and almost as fast.Limit here is 2 per day, are there any limits on waterfoul there? is steel shot a requirement? We usually have one hunt a year that we require .410's but we have difficulty finding nox toxic shot for them now, the Bismuth company that produced them has gone out of business. Anyone reload .410? any luck with tungsten? I hate to throw steel down the barrel of some of my older shotguns. Donnie A .410 on duck with non-toxic would be hard work, but nevertheless no doubt it has been done before. Over in the uk you will only get non-toxic in 12 or 20g with any ease. As for bag limits, the only ones we have over here are what are imposed by the wildfowling clubs which control the land, Quite often there are no limts set so UK shooters use their best practice of subsistance shooting. I do however see bag limtis being introduced in the future in the UK by Natural England. Nice shooting Regards starlight32 Edited January 7, 2008 by starlight32 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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