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3dz Dave smith decoys
Tim grounds half breed
Shotgun
Lay down blind

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+ turn the ones you kill into stuffers that'll decoy more geese to come.

Was in London with plans to fly back on the BA non-stop to MSY when we woke up to this news Friday. Ended up re-booking for Sat AM out of Newcastle via Amsterdam without issue.

See a lot of hating on London in this thread, but can tell you my wife and I found a whole lot of good there, the opposite of which was reality-checked when we got back to Atlanta then MSY.

While we enjoy a few liberties more, maybe?, somewhere along the way we got sloppy AF, apathetic about how we treat each other or our jobs, and now have....what we have. Yes it's home, but man, get out and see some other places sometime.

Awesome work, thanks for sharing. Keep us posted, for real.

Better than last year, but not great. Had some good hunts here and there.

Big picture, though, very few grays down and a whole lot being killed in ARK and MO. Some long time SW La clubs even stopped doing hunts for a bit, reportedly....pretty scary.

Exterior wall kitchen sink, dripped the cold only (mistake 1), cabinet doors were closed (mistake 2) for Tues night this week.

Woke up to no issues throughout the house other than no hot water flow at kitchen sink.....bc frozen in the wall there or somewhere nearby. Pretty quickly remedied with hair dryer on low facing the wall space in there.

Lesson learned: open cabinet and drip both hot and cold next time, I suppose.

Had beretta Xtrema2 and A400 Xtreme, put down to try an M2 and never went back, now have one in 12g and 20g, and 11 seasons in on the 12g.

If you only duck hunt a little bit but also shoot clays and doves with same gun, the Beretta gas guns are great. But if you're going to duck hunt a lot in all sorts of weather, the inertia guns are the way to go, lot less parts to clean up after a rain hunt, lot less cleaning needed.

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Yeah I hunt on holly beach and we do our best killing during the first 3 weeks. After that it kinda falls off. Still have good days here and there but the first split it is normally loaded for us. Late season the birds are smart and all stack up in pot holes and want nothing to do with a decoy or a call.

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This. LDWF's bag checks for many many years have said marsh/coastal hunters do the vast majority of their killing the first few weeks of the season, then steadily tapers from there. "We want to hunt late"....but the bag checks say those who are going aren't killing.

So there's always a (loud) few that want to hunt in February, but because we can't, want every minute of Jan 31, regardless of what day of the week that might be (see this season's WZ schedule closing on a Friday).

1.) By first to second week of January, if you haven't gotten birds showing up to you, it's highly unlikely you'll suddenly see them leading up to Jan 31.

2.) By that late in the season, marsh birds are slick and only want small potholes, and for tidal marsh hunters, you're likely dealing with mud flats. Nice !

Killing a few in outer delacroix and Hopedale public stuff, seems overall that things are just 2-3+ weeks behind as far as temps and of course migration. More blue wings than usual, less grays so far. Saw some nice wads of new birds arriving Friday afternoon by the Shell Beach camp high and rolling.

I think this front coupled with more next week will help get things in motion.

TB's are popular, and expensive, for a reason. They're friggin legit. 2 years on my Gen 2 TB and loving it.

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......than anything he’s ever done on the field

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Nothing really comes to mind, haven't been impressed with him over the years at all.