Friday, January 02, 2009

Field Hunt

I've been hearing many reports of good shooting for ducks in corn fields. I've shot ducks in fields in Canada, but never in Maryland. Today we set up for it, the key to success is mojo ducks, which are a decoy with a motorized wings, ducks love them.

We hunted out of layout blinds in standing corn:
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We ended up killing 10 mallards, and 10 geese. We had a once in a lifetime visitor as well. Mojo duck worked so well, it attracted redheads to our field spread. Redheads are a diving duck, meaning they feed by finding vegetation and and invertibrates by diving in ponds, lakes, rivers, etc. For them to come to a field was unbelievable. I took the only shot at the group, and unfortunately did not bring a bird to hand.

Casey Owings, Dave Sikorski, Dave Connolly, Bobby Connolly, and myself with the day's bag:
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