Going to Canada

Tomorrow, I leave for Canada with my buddies Jeremy Mercer, John Finney, and Shannon Brockmeyer. We are going up there for the lackadaisical marijuanna laws and the cheap hookers.

Kidding, we're gunning up there, a solid week of duck, goose, and maybe partridge hunting. I'm pumped, we've been planning this trip for a year, and finally, its time. This will be my third year to Canada with Jeremy and Finney, first year with Shannon. In the past,we've gone to Long Point, in Ontario. This year brings a new destination, Manitoba, center of the "Duck Factory", as DU calls it.

In light of this trip, and the kickoff of the 2006-2007 duck season, Here are some pics of ducks and past hunts:

Canvasbacks:


Canvasbacks Tolling into the decoys:


Bull Can:


Blackhead:


Goldeneye:


An American Classic, a Winchester Model 12 in a duck blind:


Duck and goose calls:


Fin and his father Sam:


The Prossner Twins, Tony Lecompte, and myself on S.H.I.T.S. after our first good hunt down there:


Black Duck Decoy, Long Point Canada:


Banded Blackhead, Long Point:


Post trip shot, Long Point:


Finney "Blowing" his goose call:


Jeremy with a poor defenseless Bufflehead:


Get Ready!


A Hoopers Island Bag:


These guys are hardcore:




Blackheads and a Buffy:


I've never seen anyone miss a bird with too much lead before this:


Jackasses:


Sea Duck Hunting:





Fin with a goose retrieve on a cold day out on the Chesapeake Bay:


Fin and I, Gresham Hall Pond:


Standing in the corn, waiting for the big picture



My dog Fin, who can't come to Canada, which sucks! He loves hunting: