I love the 'slow-motion' feature

[Anatidae]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Ly5PuK ... e=youtu.be

Here's a clip from a honker beat-down in the blizzard of November 10, 2010. This was an unbelievable day and the last one of our 2010 trip. We knew the snow was coming, but didn't know how much we'd get overnight. So, we got-up the next morning, decided it was too deep for the pick-up and trailer, and loaded our gear in the trapper's sled behind the 4-wheeler. It was a 2-mile ride (IN the blowing snow) to the field, but we got there and before we had 2 dozen decoys out, the geese started flogging our spread. I got the sled and 4-wheeler out of the field and before I could get back, Anne had 3 honks in the bag. She finished her limit while I filmed. So, she's doing the shooting in this clip. Once she got her 8, then I put the camera up and shot my 8, finishing with a clean triple inside of 20yds. It was over pretty quick and will be a hunt we'll remember for a long time. You just never get tired of seeing a group of geese bearing down on your footbag and backpeddling 2' off the ground at about 15 yds - 'can't get enough of that! That's why I love this clip because it conveys the 'rush' you get from that image.

Snowbound 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUpvjBI ... e=youtu.be

Now, here it is in Slow Motion.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBMtwS8y ... e=youtu.be

[Up2Early]

Very cool, especially the slo-mo.

[goosebruce]

Sweet!

[RedEyed Duck]

Awesome video clips anat! I need to do quite a bit more of that this season!

[cbelmore]

Very nice. Good clip

[novacaine]

She smacked them. Very cool.

[skywalker]

Just once in my lifetime would I like to go to Canada and waterfowl hunt........its on my 'list'.

Excellent footage!

[Anatidae]

Thanks. Yeah, if you ever get an opportunity to go hunting in Canada.....do whatever it takes to capitalize on that.

I'm still learning how to use the camera. The main thing though is being in the right place at the right time......and being in a good position to get the shot. Kinda hard to film and hunt, but I make do.

Novacaine: You're right.....she smacked'em. She actually killed 2 geese in one shot - TWICE - this trip. It's not really that hard to do when they are so close.....just takes a little more patience and precise timing.

The thing I like about this clip is it shows Anne's shot selection. You always shoot the high (or 'far') bird first instead of the ones that are already overly-committed to touching down .....and the ones that are closest to you. They have to land and then take-off, or work like hell (like the 2nd bird in the clip did) to get back in the air. She timed her shot perfectly, shooting the upper left (and behind) bird while the close one was bailing-out. That's the sign of an experienced waterfowler when you take the harder shot and come-back on the easy one for your second. Novice hunters (including myself at one time) normally always take the closest shot first, then look for the 'next'-closest........which is normally out of range by the time they get on it.

The other thing I like about the clip is the spent hulls coming across in front of the camera.

Critiquing my own clip, it would have been better if I had followed the second goose down instead of pulling off to film the 2 honks going to the right.......but I'm just not really into 'kill' shots on video, typically.

OK - here's a quiz: Watch the 'real-time' clip again and pretend you are in my place, but have a gun, and know that your hunting partner is going to take what's on the left and you're supposed to shoot what comes right. So, pick'em up out there about 50 yards and tell me how many birds look like potential targets for you..... 2, or 1? Uh-OH.... they switched but you don't know until about 25 yds out right?.....until that 2nd one from the left slides to the right and swaps places with the 3rd from right bird at the end. At that time, your primary focus should squarely be on that bird (now, the left bird of the pair on the right) and you now have 2 targets in your lane. Q1) So, which one (of the pair on the right) are you going to shoot at first? Now, re-play the 'slow-mo' to confirm your answer.

In the clip, there's actually a good opportunity for a one-man quad with three shots. Wait just a hair longer on the left pair 'til their heads line-up, then get the high (long) bird of the right pair, then get the flusher on the rise.

Thanks for the comments.