BilletHead

Grill basket from the clearance rack a few years back at Orscheln farm and home. I think they still carry them, BilletHead

Good one Njardar. Food is a simple pleasure and it doesn't take much to keep me happy, Daddy-O Yes it does taste like beef. You would be hard pressed to know it was duck. Very, very tender too. BilletHead

Neat stuff? Not me cheap stuff. Got to love a bargain. Grill is one of those little bitty webers. Found it on clearance at Sutherlands for a whopping fifteen bucks. Grill basket clearance rack a few years back at Orscheln farm and home. I think ten bucks. Kingsford's brand. Oh yes the table a freebee from a friend. It is one of those with two legs that attach to the side of a grill. When not on the grill it rests just right on the deck rail for the little grill. Have had that freebee for close to eight years. Have had my moneys worth out of it all.

I can hear you all now duck again? Yep but you would be hard pressed to even know it was duck. It is more like a tender cut of beef. I suppose you could do this in a skillet but we like the grilled charcoal flavor. Today we will do this with mallard, skinny mallard. We save our fat mallards for searing. These birds had very little if not any fat on them. The kind where you can see the color of the meat through the skin. We slice the breast meat pretty thin on the bias. About an eighth inch thick slices. Add a liberal amount of olive oil and a bunch of coarse black pepper, some garlic salt too. After coals are white and hot get the meat in the grill basket. From all the olive oil dripping you will get a flare up, just go to stirring flame and smoke is good! When the meat is browned and is beginning to show some blood oozing add onions. Here again onion petals liberally coated with olive oil and lots of the pepper. Stir, stir, stir until the onions are hot but still crunchy. Plate it up with some fried rice. Try it, BilletHead

Moodyfour good on you all. Nice picture of your young one. Both of the young ones. I have had the pleasure of watching dogs work a couple of times. It was neat. Someday there might be a dog in my future. If so I will be asking a lot of questions. Until then I will be using the kayak, long hook pole, waders, Mrs. BilletHead or the wind to retrieve. We made another hunt this morning and bagged two, one each. We had a group of fifteen buzz us before LST and then two work later and we got them. A single big duck flew by and then a group of eight big ducks in the distance. Lots of geese pestering us but they don't like the spinning wing decoys. We will work them over during early goose or at least try. Todays photos. JD she can smile, BilletHead

Do I dunk there little webbed feet in it? OR should I cook and baste them before sending them on there way? HA! BilletHead

Will send some your way, BilletHead

Nice post Tim and thanks. We have been to Dinosaur national monument, Kemmerer and the Fossil butte National Monument although the monument was closed we did do a pay to place and got some fish fossils. Did the Florissant Fossil monument too. Pretty neat all the bug fossils. We have also explored around Vernal and found some Caddis and leaf fossils, BilletHead

Ok I will get the teal thread party started! There are some here, and with the two cool fronts last nights and the one coming these two weeks should get better. I / We have been watching two ponds. Both are used for irrigation and have been pumped pretty low. Mud flats they have and blue wings like it. No cover to hide but if hidden the best you can and not moving it will work. So a plan was launched last Evening hoping that it wasn't raining too much. Up early checked the radar, some clearing on the way. So we hit the road to the water. Got there in good time and no rain so we got all set up. As the Eastern sky started to lighten the rain started falling lightly. Just like usual in teal fashion they started flying and landing before legal shooting time of sunrise. Nice bunches of a dozen to twenty. Back and forth in and out of the decoys. Then it was time and we got in some shooting. The morning flight was over before we were but it did happen. The set up, No lab for me but a nice fetcher just the same and she doesn't smell like a wet dog. She says to tell you all like most women she had to take the time for her makeup. No complaints from me about this. The mornings results were seven little blue winged rockets. Three nice adults with a goodly amount of fat build up and four thin skinned youngsters BilletHead

What F&F said except they will still go to fields in the rain to feed. We just decided to stay dry that morning, BilletHead

There you go Mitch. Baby steps. Once she gets hooked an sees what it is all about things will change. When we first married neither one of us could cook. I remember the first time we had my parents over to dinner. Fried chicken with mashed taters and gravy. You could stand a spoon in the gravy and it would just stand there. Had the consistency of drywall mud. Oh my the memories. BilletHead

Thanks gents, A good day for sure. Hoping there is many more like this for the rest of my life. Do what you can with the one you love. A life time is limited, BilletHead

Mrs. BilletHead has Thursdays off. She asks last night are we going dove hunting? Sure if you want. We got 13 on Monday and on Tuesday I did another 15. Gave it rest Wednesday. So the Alarm goes off at five this morning. I have been fighting a head cold and finally got a good night of rest. I grunt when it went off and started to fall back asleep. Soon I feel a poke. Aren't we going? Well let me see what it is doing outside. I take a quick wiz, put my glasses on and go out the door to check the weather and thermometer. Instantally humid hits my face and the cold glasses fog up as I peer at the temp. 76 degrees. I crawl back in bed and get poked again. I want to go. Alright so we get up and do breakfast. Then hit the road for the short trip to the field. Get sit up, Mrs. BilletHead watching the sun rise, The results were great. I was done with 15 birds by eight. I shot better than I have ever for doves. 15 for 19 shots. Monday I shot a modified choke and was either missing or tearing up birds, Tuesday I shot the Mrs. gun with a improved cylinder and done way better so this morning I changed chokes and did well. The Mrs. ended up with 7 birds and averaged three shells per bird but get this she downed two birds with one shot. I asked her did you do this on purpose? Heck no, at least she was honest in the answer, Got the birds cleaned and took a drive to Joplin for something to do. Came home and I started the charcoal grill. On the menu was bacon wrapped dove. This is my favorite way to eat them. A strip of bacon enclosing the entire breast and pinned with a toothpick. Put them on the hot grill where they started getting happy, more happy and the happiest of all. I cook then until the bacon gets done, not too crispy but more on what I call the wormy side, And now it was time for us to be happy. Sided with a nice salad and a half of a baked potato topped with sharp cheddar cheese and an adult beverage of choice. A good old ice cold blue moon, I am so glad she kept poking me to get up! BilletHead

Just three more. Blah, blah, blah. Rub it in, rub it in! Good going Scott, BilletHead

Have a great trip luckycraft! Give us a good report, BilletHead

I could see couple starting to turn in the photo. Bad early here too last year for that. Seeing a few teal and some pintails here. Last year seen two pintail third week of September. Have eight now on a pond here close. Had frozen ponds here on thanksgiving hunt last year. Should I be worried it will be another cold one this season? BilletHead

Did a solo in the same field on day two. Done and heading home with 15 at 8:15 AM. A really good shoot, Pretty muddy after three inches of rain. Still no complaints as dry as it is/was. Still would like some pond filler rains. Walked right out of my stuck muck boot once. What to do? Just reinsert muddy foot and keep hunting. A water hose and flush cleaned it out but what a wad of mud I got out of it! BilletHead

Well done friend. I bet they will taste good even if they are in "plain brown wrappers". BilletHead

Get more and report Scott! Duane you are getting them. BilletHead

Had a field we were watching. Finally got permission to hunt the place late yesterday afternoon. A combined corn field. One of the first ones cut and the only place we had seen any concentration of birds. Up early to sweet rain. We needed it badly and there was no complaining from the Mrs. or I. Looked at radar on the internet and there was no break coming but we loaded up and went anyway. As we pulled up birds were in and out of the field and on the wires. We watched for a while and then proceeded to town for some stuff we needed. Checked the field again on the way home and again birds there but we just drove on home as the rain kept falling. Around ten thirty I checked the weather again and the rain was starting to slow to the West so we drove back to the field and as we got there the rain stopped. We got geared up and took a couple of spots and sat on our coolers. Soon birds stirred and we got some shooting. We quit at 12:15 so we hunted for just over and hour. Ended up with 13 birds. Came home and added them to a few we had left from last year. Did a quick sauté in olive oil and rosemary from the garden. When done they were pink on the inside and tender. Plated them up with a salad, sweet peppers from the garden and garlic bread toasted in the cast iron skillet, Contrary to Fishingwrench and his thoughts there were no lice on the birds and the birds as killed went into the ice in the ice chest under the place our behinds were parked:) Also we called it when it got warm and the birds stopped flying. BilletHead

Hahahaha Scott. They just can't resist the sound of the plastic bag? Did you try with the bow? Well done ! BilletHead

Nice RPS, You have to love farmers markets. BilletHead

Thank you Griz. Let me know what you want for them, BilletHead

Either buy or trade for .Old or new arrows, Just need approx. 20 inches plus of straight shaft. I don't care if they are autumn orange, Jim Daughtery super naturals, Bark brown, Browning accelerator brown camo or the standard Easton old green camo or newer stuff. I have to trade or sell Approx. fifty flu-flu arrows and aerial targets. Some 5 degree taper judo points. Might have some more odds and ends too as soon as I get them together. A wood fiberglass composite long bow and a nice recurve. Longbow is 65# @ 28 or 29 inches. Recurve is 64# @ 29 inches. The BilletHead who is in pain and needs to move on with other things!

It is Phil and I am glad you told your story. I did not mean to go off your discussion. As much as I dislike to read this happening to everyone involved I need to be reminded what happens if mistakes are made. This should make everyone think that things happen quicker than the blink of an eye, BilletHead