Catch up time!! pictures added. Additional pics added 2/28

[The Waterfowler]

RR and I are in warm, sunny Mexico with 8 more couples doing some catching up on the waterfowl. Pictures to follow. Ramsey and Nita are seeing why I've been coming down here for the past 12 years. Today was a great one with lots of ducks and the first experience in an airboat for most of the guys. Ramsey has shot about as many pictures as he has bullets!

[chevy01234]

RR and I are in warm, sunny Mexico with 8 more couples doing some catching up on the waterfowl. Pictures to follow. Ramsey and Nita are seeing why I've been coming down here for the past 12 years. Today was a great one with lots of ducks and the first experience in an airboat for most of the guys. Ramsey has shot about as many pictures as he has bullets!

Cool, post up some pictures of the airboats they are running when you get a chance please!

[QUACKERS]

Pat, hope all the women are enjoying as much as the men, if so I need them to call my wife for next Valentines. I mean hunt, wine and dine the women all in the same trip, that is the ticket.

[decoyinsnows]

Think I'm going to join this one next year. RR kill a spoon yet?

[Jeff]

I would have this year had it not interfered with mardi gras. Glad ya'll are having a great time.

[Don Miller]

What part of Mexico?.....Mazatlan?

[Mr Turnem N Burnem]

Tell Mr Russell I am upset I have not had an invitation to hunt in a while. I may also be able to help him find a dog of reasonable size, when I last hunted with him he had a scruffy little dog.

[The Waterfowler]

It's Mardi Gras down here too. Had a parade last night. We're in Mazatlan alright and it's my 12th trip here. Getting to enjoy it. RR should be home and will hopefully post pictures before I get back. There's still a few more ducks to pursue.

[Hambone]

Waterfowler, those of us stuck in our cells need more details!

[Mr Turnem N Burnem]

Tell Mr Russell I am upset I have not had an invitation to hunt in a while. I may also be able to help him find a dog of reasonable size, when I last hunted with him he had a scruffy little dog.

Come to think of it, I think he went with me more than I went with him, so he difinitely owes me a shoot.

[The Waterfowler]

RR is back. As soon as he 'dries out" he will get some pictures posted. I will be back by Thursday and get some I took posted.

[Double R 2]

Came home more relaxed than I've been in years. Definitely a favorite "duck hunt". You'll kill more birds in South America than on this Mazatlan Mexico duck hunt, but the limits are generous and you'll shoot plenty. Cinnamon teal, blue-wing teal, green-winged teal, whistling ducks (black-bellied and fulvous both), pintail and the almighty Ramzilla, I mean, shoveler. Our blind was fortunate enough to shoot our 20-bird limits daily. The weather was a perfect mid-50s in the morning and mid-80s in the afternoon. Never broke a sweat, never got cold, and thankful I wasn't look at snow. Immaculate, unplugged Benelli Super Sports included in the package at no extra cost, ported but a fine shooting shotgun. can pack everything you'll need in a carry-on, forget the waders and bring knee boots just in case.

After the duck hunt we came back and showered, napped, whatever, joined up at the poolside bar for pre-dinner happy hour where 4-5 cocktails, chips and salsa crowded $12-13 dollars. Caught a truck bed taxi to a restaurant for fresh daily shrimp, lobster, oysters cooked a million diferent great ways. The girls shopped, got manicures, massages, or sunned. Para-sailing, beach walking, deep-sea fishing, bass fishing, tennis, golf, dove hunting - plenty of options to choose from as afternoon diversions or in lieu of morning duck hunting. We had the right crowd of folks, and laughed for 3 days straight.


View from Mazatlan Mexico duck camp balcony. Anita and I never shut our balcony doors - 5 foot waves pounding sand 200 feet away and an ocean breeze.



More views of "duck camp"







Cinnamons and black-bellied whistlers. Yep, some shovelers too.



Airboating to the blinds - at 9 am one morning. This was a freshwater estuary that the birds were coming into later in the morning.



Boat ride in. Beautiful area. Didn't there were as many American avocets, black-necked stilts and countless other shore birds in the world as we saw while riding in. Flocks of ducks around every corner.



Appetizers

[Double R 2]

I'll post a few more pics up later, busy with NWTF Convention.

More package info: Mazatlan Mexico Duck Hunt (click here)

[bigwater]

very nice...

and to top that off.. and i just found this out.. holiday inn was founded by an msu grad...

[Beaudog1]

Maybe I'm missing an inside joke here, but Holiday Inn was founded by Kemmons Wilson, a high school drop-out.......