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shnelson
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Photos from your 2013 season

Sun Nov 24, 2013 11:58 pm

Wasn't able to get out enough this year due to a very recent addition to our family, but here's one of my favorites - I had tried introducing my nephew to waterfowl hunting on a few occasions, most unsuccessful due to constraints outside of our control. This photo was from one of the better mornings where he got to witness an incredible local bird morning flight - he didn't bag any birds but I think he's hooked.

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I think a good alternative title to this thread would be "Photos you were too afraid to post on MWF" :lol:
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Re: Photos from your 2013 season

Tue Nov 26, 2013 11:12 am

Had fun opening weekend in North Dakota. A lot of competition this year. And as always, tough to identify drakes on the opener.
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Day after opener. 9 greenheads, 4 pintails, 3 suzies, 2 gads, and 2 honks.
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NoDak opener 10 dirty greenheads, 12 gads, and 2 widgeons.
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Re: Photos from your 2013 season

Tue Nov 26, 2013 11:30 am

Struggled over MEA weekend in NoDak. Almost all crops were in and just couldn't get on a lot of birds.
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Little bit of everything here
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I bought swan decoys this year and had 3 swans cupped over the decoys. The sound of the splash was awesome!
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Not a knock down drag em out hunt but we saw hundreds of swans and honkers. Not much for ducks. Oh yeah, 1st wood duck I've shot in ND.

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Re: Photos from your 2013 season

Tue Nov 26, 2013 11:36 am

Went to South Dakota for the first time and had a few good shoots. Had trouble getting permission anywhere.
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Re: Photos from your 2013 season

Tue Nov 26, 2013 11:36 am

Didn't get out as much as I would have liked due to harvest but there is still some season left.

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Re: Photos from your 2013 season

Tue Nov 26, 2013 11:41 am

More South Dakota pics
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Putting the ringer and can on the wall
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Re: Photos from your 2013 season

Tue Nov 26, 2013 11:43 am

More SD pics....
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Re: Photos from your 2013 season

Tue Nov 26, 2013 11:53 am

Only got out twice for early goose. Hunted water and all I shot was singles. Never had a flock come in.
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Re: Photos from your 2013 season

Tue Nov 26, 2013 12:55 pm

It was a short intense fall...Only got out a few times..
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Took a newbie with...Joey shot his first birds this fall..

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Re: Photos from your 2013 season

Tue Nov 26, 2013 1:58 pm

Great pics guys! I haven't posted pics online for some time so I thought I would share a few. It was a great season. It started slow the first few weeks for me in MN but once the divers showed up it was game on. Highlight of the season was having massive flocks of mallards in our face in ND cut corn during Nov. Biggest flock had to be around 500 birds with several that were 50 plus. I wish we would have had a gopro for the hunts. Drawback of the season was going the first season without my old hunting dog Miya. I thought about her everyday in the field this year.

Here is our first couples days take during our annual brown duck beatdown trip aka ND non-res opener. Could have had limits in short order in the fields had we been able to identify drakes.

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A couple of the old timers in our group shot a couple banded pinnies and didn't even notice until we were back enjoying some cocktails at the camp.

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A couple sunrises and sets.

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Diver Time. More buffies and less goldies this year. Just never got cold enough for the Goldies before the season closed.

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The young pup stepped up pretty good this year.

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Late season Mallards. We had some rookies that we brought along that were having trouble picking out drakes. There was also some hens caught in stray fire due to the size of flocks we had hovering in. We missed the snows on this trip by one week but that was okay with me.

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Lucky coot decoy brought em right in.

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Transition into ice fishing.

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