This really happened......Sat 8:00 am......
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 11:47 am
Let me set the stage for this quick hunting story........
players......four duck hunters... walt ..bill--clark--ralph..
and one ole dog(sam)....
location......lower delta--lage cypress slough.......very thick...small open hole...so when ducks come in they are close...real close...
Three of the four hunters were hunting from a 10x12 foot platform with no cover...just sits under big cypress trees....completely open with small cypress trees in the front........(be still and dont look up...
Sam and I are on smaller open platform 20 feet away(behind and left).......
called in a few wigons that landed 20 in front of the blind...group of mallards were following.......mallards came on down.....bang...bang....bang....it was raining greenheads.....
one wigon decided that after the shooting was over this was not a good place to be....got up and flew at the larger platform....coming straight
at ralph....ralph could not get a bead on the oncoming target......the duck was struck on the head with the gun barrel....fell to the platform....walk around a sec...and knew that this was not a good place to be either....
scurred off the back of the blind.....swam so close to the boat that no one could shoot.....went behind a cypress....and away he went.......
now the laughfter and commotion after this event will be remembered for years to come....and retold over many fireplaces.....duckblinds...ect..
my only comment after was..."that was the only "trash" duck that got away that I would have loved to have gotten and mounted....because no one would believe that no shot was fired....
take care.....stay careful....
walt and sam....
players......four duck hunters... walt ..bill--clark--ralph..
and one ole dog(sam)....
location......lower delta--lage cypress slough.......very thick...small open hole...so when ducks come in they are close...real close...
Three of the four hunters were hunting from a 10x12 foot platform with no cover...just sits under big cypress trees....completely open with small cypress trees in the front........(be still and dont look up...
Sam and I are on smaller open platform 20 feet away(behind and left).......
called in a few wigons that landed 20 in front of the blind...group of mallards were following.......mallards came on down.....bang...bang....bang....it was raining greenheads.....
one wigon decided that after the shooting was over this was not a good place to be....got up and flew at the larger platform....coming straight
at ralph....ralph could not get a bead on the oncoming target......the duck was struck on the head with the gun barrel....fell to the platform....walk around a sec...and knew that this was not a good place to be either....
scurred off the back of the blind.....swam so close to the boat that no one could shoot.....went behind a cypress....and away he went.......
now the laughfter and commotion after this event will be remembered for years to come....and retold over many fireplaces.....duckblinds...ect..
my only comment after was..."that was the only "trash" duck that got away that I would have loved to have gotten and mounted....because no one would believe that no shot was fired....
take care.....stay careful....
walt and sam....