a big smile

[Anatidae]

......Special occasions like, duck season? [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

[cmducks]

Sounds like a good excuse to me!

[TN Duck Daddy]

We're seeing an unusually early migration in middle TN as well. I just hope they hang around for another month or so. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

I was pleased when I saw the National Weather Service's prediction for the winter. They showed the below average temperatures being north of a line through Kentucky and Arkansas. That should put you and me in a great place to hold birds. [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]

[Bobby Williams]

Let me tell all of you guys that can hear those geese talking when they are a mile high.Protect that God gift. It has been a long time sense I have heard a goose. I was with a friend this weekend and he was setting in his truck and ask me if I heard those Snows? I said what Snows? Then he got out of his truck and pointed to them. They must have been a mile away. I am jealious of you guys. [img]images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img]

[cmducks]

BW - my dad is the same way, and he gets very frustrated by not being able to hear the songs of many birds. His hearing impairment is probably the result of a number of things, age being one, but he used to shoot rifles and shotguns all the time growing up, and never used any hearing protection.
Therefore, he was adament about me using hearing protection when I learned to shoot. As a result, I use hearing protection whenever I shoot, even when I'm hunting (in most cases). I've found that I have very sensitive ears, and even shooting a .22 causes my ears to ring if I don't wear protection.

So I'll be the spokesman for encouraging everyone to use hearing protection of some kind whenever you can, and emphasize this to youngsters or beginners just starting out in the shooting sports. No one is a ninny for wanting to protect their hearing. Once the damage is done, its done.

[goosebruce]

Bobby it aint been dat long since you heard a goose, you listened to me bitch most of last week! bwhahaha.

My outlaws live in yocna. Everybody couldnt belive my one weekend not at a hunt test this fall, i went to a family reunion, and my wifes family at that. Told em they just ought to see the throw down they put on once a year.

Randy Im sorry I didn't get to see ya last week. Glad Ann came out, and thanks for her showing us around. Ya'll need to come up and train with us some in the spring. Gave her a nice Online Labs hat, thought about throwing one in for you, but figgered Id make you come get one! ha. I still owe ya'll an eat-out for your hospitality. Told yur wife to just come out and ask for us, and if it's the right flight, dang near everyone would know us. She stopped at the texas end of the gallery, was about to give up on us, when she stumbled on our group! Tell her the feller hollaring out the numbers for dogs was Mr Bobby..small world aint it. travis

[Blackduck]

The last few nights that I've been out walking the dog about 10pm I've seen 50 or so snows heading north flying low over Jackson. It gave me a semi!

Cut 'em

[Anatidae]

Hey 'Goose'....yeah, I'm sorry I could'nt get loose....'was lookin' forward to seein ya'll and watchin the pups run. I didn't get out to the water test 'til Friday, 'bout noon......musta just missed ya'll. [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img] Man, I bet ya'll were BEAT!

Anne told me all about it....she really enjoyed gettin' to meet you and 'the group'....said ya'll were the liveliest bunch out there (I told her that would be the easiest way to find you). [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] She really likes the hat!....and says Thanks, again. She appreciated you and Steve tellin' her to let Sprig run (when ya'll were out at our place).....she said the dog took a 'stupid' pill. Sprig smelled kinda funny, when I got home that day. According to Anne, that was one of the 'highlights' from the training session.....Sprig, 'belly-up in that pile of 'fresh', green cow poop....I mean all-fours pumpin'! [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img] What a hoot!.....life is a fresh 'pile'. [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]

Anne appreciated your suggestions (particularly about the ear pinchin' thing.....it's workin'!) We'd look forward to comin' up there and workin' dogs this Spring. [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]

Yeah, she said Bobby was a martial, or something. She was tryin' to get-up with Laura Neens (Texas), but Laura had just run a dog and was not a 'happy camper'. [img]images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img]

We'll take a rain check on the supper, Anne just felt like ya'll really had enough goin' on, last week but we appreciated the offer.....You can bring a cap when you come over to 'camp', this season! I'll be in touch. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

P.S. We coined another 'term' while you were gone.....comes from somethin' you said about shooting minutia. 'Had to give you credit for it.......'called the 'point and smack' method for shootin' ducks. [img]images/smiles/icon_cool.gif[/img]

[goosebruce]

Laura had a dog hit a tree wideopen, wing over the eyes, dang near knocked the dog out...she wasn't in any joking mood after that...Seemed like a nice gal though, never seen her before that.
Awe, anne thought sprig ought to do what dem dogs where doing, when she doesnt train like that. Easy to do, doesnt look that different to a dog owner...Looks wayyyyyy different to a dog... Big difference knocking a duck down for a dog, or having a person she likes throw a bumper she likes, than having a hidden winger 100 yards out throw a lil bumper the dog didnt like to begin with....If you'd been throwing the same mark for the dog, or if itd been a duck knocked down, itd been just like normal. Instead, the dog was hot, and those maxxes throw something the dog didnt care for in the first place....its like I might walk a block for a steak & tater, but I wouldnt walk into the back yard for pimento cheese....
That is a pretty dawg, and has a lot of desire & drive. travis