Fox Collectors

This morning I was able to make it out for a hunt at my lake blind and I brought my 1911 Sterlingworth along for my first ever hunt with a side by side.

I decided to be a little picky since the bismuth ammo is a little on the pricey side so I slowly picked away at the ducks until the big ducks quit flying. It's a beautiful sunny day here today with zero wind. Not exactly ideal waterfowl hunting conditions ,especially with the early season local birds. But any day out hunting beats a day at work, right? I was waiting on Mallards but decided to finish up on some Teal and call it a morning.

Since I was duck hunting I didn't put any goose decoys out but I was able to call a flock right into the hole and just as their feet were touching the water I shot the first once but only grazed the second one and it managed to make it a couple hundred yards out in the lake before crashing down dead in the water. It was stuck in some weeds and not going anywhere so I left it there until my hunt was over. When I waded out to get it I was pleasantly surprised to see that it was sporting some iron of its own! My lucky day!

The goose was a female banded near Olene in Klamath County Oregon. My lucky day!

Wild Wings

I'm having some troubles posting the pictures. I'm not the best on the computer.

Wild Wings.

Ah, files were too big.

Wild Wings

Tremendous hunt and nice pictures. We’ll need those in the Neesletter.

thanks for post and pics,great first hunt with SxS PS holy cow, what a string of bands,how many years ago was your first banded bird?

Wow! Looks like you shot that Fox SxS well! Great way to start the season! Nice collection of bands as well!

Thank you guys, it was a great day. I had a little trouble with the double triggers but it worked out well. I believe I shot my first banded bird back in 1991. I've been a waterfowl junkie my whole life.

Wild Wings