Our little duck hunt didn't go as planned, the fog was thick and the birds were passing over in range and we could only hear their wings. But we did manage to land 2 geese 60 yards up stream and I "swam them in". Wyatt waterswatted both of them through dense brush because he was worried they would spook, I am not impressed with his judgement because we had two new waterfowlers with us and he didn't give them the slightest chance to take a shot. And wouldn't it be cliche that both geese had bands... Bringing Wyatt's band total to 4, mine still at zero. Turns out one bird was from New York, and the other from Greene County a mere 15 minutes away! The odds of these two banded birds being together, decoying on a sad excuse for a river, maybe 15 yards wide, fast flowing, and thick trees on each bank probably 30 feet tall from erosion, is just incredibly unlikely. But what can I say, Wyatt is very lucky with the bling. One of his other banded geese was killed with 7/8oz 20ga #4 steel on a wood duck hunt! If that isn't lucky, then I don't know what is... But I can't win every battle! Thanks for reading!
This doesn't look like a wood duck hunt!
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