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1st hunt of the season

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Went out today with my father and we were able to scratch out a limit. Took us until about 10 but it was a fun hunt. Had about 500 pelicans float right into the decoys. It was a wonderful sight. Here are the pics. One of the blues I took was very dark colored. Maybe a mix with a cinnamon?
 

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Some guys from SG county had a great first hunt of the season today. Got Popped for shooting Pintails 15min before LST at quivera. Escorted out of the marsh by the Wardens.

You can't make this stuff up, and I thought JOCO hunters were idiots.
 
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rmb79 said:
Some guys from SG county had a great first hunt of the season today. Got Popped for shooting Pintails 15min before LST at quivera. Escorted out of the marsh by the Wardens.

You can't make this stuff up, and I thought JOCO hunters were idiots.
In the middle part of the state tags with "SG" are every bit as hated as "JO" tags in the eastern part of the state. Growing up anytime we were upland bird hunting and saw SG tags parked in a field we assumed they were rich doctors coming in to lease up all the land we hunted.
 
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T Man said:
EcatMagoo said:
Went out today with my father and we were able to scratch out a limit. Took us until about 10 but it was a fun hunt. Had about 500 pelicans float right into the decoys. It was a wonderful sight. Here are the pics. One of the blues I took was very dark colored. Maybe a mix with a cinnamon?
It could be a cinnimon teal. At this time of the year they are in eclipse plumage, and just starting to get their breeding colors.
Even in eclipse colors the male would still have red eyes though...correct?
 
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EcatMagoo said:
T Man said:
EcatMagoo said:
One of the blues I took was very dark colored. Maybe a mix with a cinnamon?
It could be a cinnimon teal. At this time of the year they are in eclipse plumage, and just starting to get their breeding colors.
Even in eclipse colors the male would still have red eyes though...correct?
The birds have not started to show breeding colors yet. We get a lot of very dark blue-wings (but not this year!)
As far as the eye color; I believe the drake's eyes change from brown to orange-red during the breeding season, but I could be wrong on this.
 
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EcatMagoo said:
radfordc said:
We managed a few birds this morning but in a really tough place to hunt. Two inches of water on top of 18 inches of mud! I'm too old for that kind of work. The cold front made for a very comfortable teal hunt with NO MOSQUITOES!
How you were guys being concealed on the shoreline?
The short answer is "not very well". We were in my boat with the Beavertail blind that is grassed up pretty good. We didn't get any groups of birds to decoy in close but there were enough that flew in range to make it a hunt. We killed four birds between us.
 
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rmb79 said:
Some guys from SG county had a great first hunt of the season today. Got Popped for shooting Pintails 15min before LST at quivera. Escorted out of the marsh by the Wardens.

You can't make this stuff up, and I thought JOCO hunters were idiots.
My friends were sitting 300 yards down the bank from them. Said they shot a few widgeon too. The ranger came over and started checking his bag and he said "wait till you get to the next group". lol what a bunch of tards
 
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