A Good Day at Beaver Dam

[Sporrns]

Last Saturday at Beaver Dam - I never knew it could get that cold in the South! - 9 degrees at the dock at 6 AM!!

[Stan Hillis]

Good job, Sporns. Yeah, it got a little nippy over 'round Tunica last weekend.

BeaverDam is a neat place. Looks like pintails and gadwalls mixed in with the "mallets". Did you hunt with Mike and Lamar? How did they keep the ice off the hole?

SRH

[Jeff S]

WOW!!! That's what dream are made of.

[Don Ay]

Nice little bit of everything in the bag
tell us about the Foxes?

[Stan Hillis]

Don, there is a caption in small print just under the pic that tells about the guns.

SRH

[Silvers]

Very nice Kevin, sounds and looks like a great trip. Thanks for taking the time to post. That 1-frame HE gave me the shakes!

[67galaxie]

Can you give me the details on booking a hunt please

[mc15426378]

Great hunt. Last weekend was the coldest temps in quite a while here but now it's 72 degrees and the ducks seem to have moved north.

[eightbore]

Wow. Kevin's new XDE in the duck blind.

[Sporrns]

Stan - Yes, hunted with Lamar and Mike. Friday PM the holes began to close around the timber with ice. Sat. AM Lamar broke up some of the larger patches but by noon they had started to close. Sat. afternoon late he put an ice-eater out in the hole and ran it off a small portable Honda generator from the blind all night. By Sun. AM we had a nice big hole open about 150 ft. in diameter.

Frank - Yes, the #1 frame HE is a magical gun - it moves and handles effortlessly compared to a 0-frame HE, its about a pound plus/minus a standard HE's wt. but the recoil is only slightly more noticeable.

Galaxy - The Boyd's have their own very nice website with all the info on how to book a hunt.

MC - Total for Sat. was 33; Sun. 27; by Mon. they'd gone - pass shot ONE from the blind!

Murph - by sheer luck I was given a 25-rnd. box of Kent TM #5 shot IN 2.5 INCH to shoot out of my newly restocked 'X/DE Special! The shells had fibre wads & shotcup and a plain overshot card. They were reportedly brought back from England; I don't think you can buy them in the US. Canada maybe??

Sidebar: If you are in or around Memphis, be sure to go to "The Pyramid", a Bass Pro HQ Flagship store right on the river downtown. There is a mini DU museum on the second floor with lots of decoys, calls, prints, artifacts etc. Unfortunately no Foxes (you have to go to DU HQ about 35 mins. away to see Bo Whoop(s). But they do have on display an ultra-rare Parker fluid steel barreled 8 gauge DH!! (Ichabod Crane must have ordered it for sculling ducks on the Hudson - it looks to have about 4 1/2 inches of drop!!)

[Sporrns]

Forgot to note this: Google Beaver Dam Hunting Services for the Boyd's website. Thx, Kevin

[Jim Cloninger]

Sporms, you and your party were certainly at Beaver Dam at the right time. When a few members and me hunted there at the end of December, all we saw were Gadwall. I am really surprised that Pintail were using the lake. Thanks for posting up your picture.
Jim

[Sporrns]

Dan Rossiter restocked X/DE 'Special' with part of the bag on day 2 - COLD!

Finally learned to resize pics thanks to Researcher so had to include this one!

[vaturkey]

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Finally learned to resize pics thanks to Researcher so had to include this one!

Damn. That's a pile of birds. Hope that XE Dan worked on for you did the job. PS. You need a bird boy to carry them suckers out for you.

[snakeeater]

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Finally learned to resize pics thanks to Researcher so had to include this one!

Nice Kevin, looks like the old days at Damned Quarter Crick. See you at Level.