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Steve-O
12-07-2008, 12:53 PM
Headed out early for a morning hunt with my buddy Greg and set up at the mouth of large creek feeding into the bay. Not much was happening early until some brant decided to stretch their wings. Saw a bunch of black ducks but none wanted in. We shot a brant and 2 buffies and called it by 10:30. We then took a break, warmed up and headed back out into the cloudy conditions with high hopes. We had a few more buffies tryin to come in but most were out of range. We did kill 3 more brant before we called it a day. We did our share of missin, thats for sure! :eek: For the first coastal hunt, i was happy to take home 6. :cool:

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swab1985
12-07-2008, 01:14 PM
good job:thup:.... Lotta buffies around right now... Ive been seeing hundreds of them at a time...
Steve-O
12-07-2008, 01:16 PM
good job:thup:.... Lotta buffies around right now... Ive been seeing hundreds of them at a time...

Agreed, it seems the overall numbers of ducks down behind my place is up! :cool:
flukinrally
12-07-2008, 02:24 PM
Good shootin Steve-O
lbdc34
12-07-2008, 03:04 PM
Nice shooting. I got some teal, hoodies, and a black in the coastal zone yesterday. Saw about 3 dozen buffs on Friday morning. And a few thousand brant rafted up back in the sound. Largest flock I have ever seen. You could hear them from miles away when they would all get up and move around. Pretty cool.
tool box
12-08-2008, 10:43 PM
mmmm coastal stew..
DeDXT
12-08-2008, 11:47 PM
what do you do with the buffies and brant. i give them to people to train there dogs with.
Steve-O
12-09-2008, 12:43 AM
what do you do with the buffies and brant. i give them to people to train there dogs with.

Yes, i did the same. Meanmachine from the barn, got a new pup last week and he wanted fresh wings to train his new pointer. :cool: The rest are put in the freezer.
lbdc34
12-09-2008, 06:24 PM
I eat them. I don't like to kill things unless I'm going to eat them. I've been told by everyone for years that brant and merganzers and buffs taste like crap. But if you brine them or soak them in milk for a day it takes a lot of the marshy taste out. I've cooked some brant this year that tasted just as good as any duck I've ever cooked.