Pair Of Foxes Getting It Done...

[DarylC]

We had birds like that here in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland in the late 70's and early 80's. I too have no use for outfitters as they have ruined bird populations here and leased up all the good lands.

[Sporrns]

Wow, Canuck! Some hot action and nice shooting in that second video! As Daryl said, we had action like that on the Eastern Shore of MD in the waterfowl hunting heydays of the '70s and '80s. Our particular club leased a big farm off the Wye East River just north of Easton MD and, although having about a mile and a half of shoreline with 3 water blinds, did not get much consistent duck action but were covered up with Canada geese in a field very similar to the one in your video which was rotated off and on in corn and soybeans.

Goose shooting was consistently good from opening day when the field was in corn, but we usually had to wait after the beans were combined for a hard freeze to crack the fallen seedcoats before the geese would really use in them.

Our glorious exception to the sparse duck shooting occurred in 1983 when we had a bitter cold winter and the river froze solid; when the ice broke up and started to tide out, we rigged our best water blind for Canvasbacks and had a solid week of classic pass and decoyed shooting. Never will forget those days!! Kevin

[Canuck]

Wow, Canuck! Some hot action and nice shooting in that second video! As Daryl said, we had action like that on the Eastern Shore of MD in the waterfowl hunting heydays of the '70s and '80s. Our particular club leased a big farm off the Wye East River just north of Easton MD and, although having about a mile and a half of shoreline with 3 water blinds, did not get much consistent duck action but were covered up with Canada geese in a field very similar to the one in your video which was rotated off and on in corn and soybeans.

Goose shooting was consistently good from opening day when the field was in corn, but we usually had to wait after the beans were combined for a hard freeze to crack the fallen seedcoats before the geese would really use in them.

Our glorious exception to the sparse duck shooting occurred in 1983 when we had a bitter cold winter and the river froze solid; when the ice broke up and started to tide out, we rigged our best water blind for Canvasbacks and had a solid week of classic pass and decoyed shooting. Never will forget those days!! Kevin

I can remember reading articles in Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, DU Magazine of the Maryland-Chesapeake Heydays in the 70's & 80's when I was a teenager starting out hunting. I grew up hunting the shores and marshes of Lakes Ontario & Erie and in the 70's & 80's when I was there the diver numbers were incredible. We lived on the shore of Lake O. Waking up and looking out the living room and kitchen windows at rafts of bluebills stretching 3 miles or more long before I left for school each morning in fall fueled the fire that the stories in the hunting magazines ignited.
I haven't hunted water much in the past 13 seasons, the exception being the odd sheetwater field shoot or a dugout on a ranch the owner asks me to clear of the geese each season but I sometimes reflect on the memories of being tucked in between some rocks or hidden behind a concrete barrier of a pumphouse along the Lake O shoreline shooting flocks of bluebills barreling into our decoys.

[Canuck]

My buddies Sterlingworth pin gun with some barley harvest green!

[Wild Wings]

That was a fun morning hunt for sure Frank! I'm glad you finally found a Fox you liked so we could get two of them out in the field at the same time! Those light 2-3/4" loads sure whacked those birds. So much for needing those modern 3-1/2" shoulder busters!

Wild Wings