Amazing day hunting on Apalachicola bay...

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Amazing day hunting on Apalachicola bay...

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Bagataway, Toden and I have been hearing about people shooting birds in Apalachicola and decided to go check it out for ourselves.
A buddy from Mariana joined us.
Scouted a spot and set out decoys without much action for a while- a few buffleheads come in the decoys and we knocked down 3.
Then we had a flight of Redheads divebomb us- four hunters and four redheads went down!

A little lull in the action and we see some big white birds flying toward us.
The were coming down a grass line we were set up on and Toden says really loud- "thats not ducks" :smt015
One of the others and I say down its geese. :smt103
There was a group of six coming right to us. They were 10 yards tops when we shot and we all dropped one!
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I go out to pick them up and we have 2 Ross geese and 2 Snow Geese... I grab one of the Ross Geese and see this:
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One is a $100 Reward band! With all the excitement we are not sure who killed it so the $100 is going toward decoys for the crew.
Entered the numbers on the band and found out the bird was banded in 2003 in North Canada - almost to Greenland!

Total for the day was 3 Buffies, 8 Redheads and 4 Geese...
The hero shot- 2 RedHeads each and our Geese :-D
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Absolutely the best day on the water this year!
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Nice hunt!

What's with the white magic marker in the first pic? Are you going again tomorrow? :lol:
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silverking wrote:Nice hunt!

What's with the white magic marker in the first pic? Are you going again tomorrow? :lol:
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Looks like snow in the background to me!!! :smt005 :smt005
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How come there are icebergs in the background of the pictures?
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I'm sure none of you guys would go shoot my spot- But there are those pesky cyber stalkers ;-)
I had to wipe out the stuff in the background- the spot was too easy to run too and would be to easy to find.

JT- I found your initials carved in a bridge piling!
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Awesome!
Its a wonderful day in the neighborhood!
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Awesome!
Its a wonderful day in the neighborhood!
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Best single day on the water in 2 years. Simply amazing!

Seeing those geese lock up and gently glide down right toward our decoys was enough to give me a ..... well, it was exciting to say the least.
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