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Sat Sep 21, 2019 12:16 pm
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Anyone get out for the MN waterfowl opener?
Shot my A5 with some factory Federal #4 steel.
We even managed a bonus coot and merganser...
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Sat Sep 21, 2019 1:25 pm
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Great
What fun
Were any of those "hens" summer variation drakes?
Give us a breakdown
One coot
one merganser
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Also, what is the next to the last duck on the right?
THANK YOU
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Sat Sep 21, 2019 2:42 pm
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Next to last from the right is a drake wood duck.
A gadwall, a few mallards and wood ducks. The rest are mostly blue wing teal and one green wing teal. We don’t see much for color on our birds for a few weeks yet. |
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Sat Sep 21, 2019 2:55 pm
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| Looks good! Our side of the river starts next Saturday and I will be out there with my 16 gauge Remington 11. |
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Sun Sep 22, 2019 3:17 am
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| Nice mixed bag! Well done!! |
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Mon Sep 23, 2019 8:00 am
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Good morning going solo today. Mallards a teal and a nice wood duck fell to the A5 and the last of my Kent bismuth factory loads.
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Mon Sep 23, 2019 8:32 am
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| Kent Bismuth #5's? How did you like their performance? |
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Mon Sep 23, 2019 8:43 am
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| Dave Erickson wrote: |
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Kent Bismuth #5's? How did you like their performance?
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Old stock from 2 years ago. Glad they are gone. European sized shot so they were more like #6. The factory Federal #4 steel kills better. |
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Mon Sep 23, 2019 10:01 am
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| Good to know about the #4 steel. I've never went below #3 steel in my 12 gauges. |
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Mon Sep 23, 2019 10:12 am
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| Dave Erickson wrote: |
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Good to know about the #4 steel. I've never went below #3 steel in my 12 gauges.
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My 12’s also get #3 or #2.
I’ve only got 1 1/2 boxes of the Federal factory steel #4 left then it’s onto my #3 handloads and the Boss shot shells.
I should mention, I’m currently hunting small potholes and all shots are under 30 yards. |
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Fri Sep 27, 2019 11:41 am
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Good friend and I headed west at 3am today. 4 blue wing and 4 pintail. Me with the A5 16ga. Him with a less than 12hr old Benelli SBE3.
Not much of a test but the Boss bismuth performed well. Two more hunts for the weekend so hopefully some more birds |
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Sun Sep 29, 2019 1:02 pm
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4 teal yesterday and 4 teal a shovler and a mallard fell to the A5.
No pics as it was windy and raining. These brown ducks don’t take to the camera too well, really wet brown ducks are worse. |
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Mon Oct 07, 2019 2:22 am
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Attempted to hunt Mid Opener this weekend, sorry have no pic's to share, if I did it would show a parking lot full of EMT and Volunteer Firemen attending to my friend who was stung by a bee and forgot his Epi Pen. After a couple hrs in the hospital all was good, thank goodness! after all the gloomy stories of the EEE virus, greatly looking forward to a killing frost.  |
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Mon Oct 07, 2019 9:51 am
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Sorry to hear putz, glad he is ok now.
Went solo again this morning. Seems the blue wing are gone and replaced with green wing. Shot my first batch of #3 steel reloads. They worked ok but I had 2 failures to eject. I’ll up the powder the next small batch. Supposed to snow some here starting Friday. Fingers crossed for some diver duck action.
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Tue Oct 08, 2019 7:51 am
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Another good day on the marsh with the A5 16. Shot a mix of bismuth and steel reloads. Had another failure to feed after the first shot on the geese. Gotta work on my crimps and tapers some more. |
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