A Fully Guided Hunt

[Mrs. BilletHead]

Boys, I am here to tell you that Marty really knows how to show a girl a good time!!! Woke up about 4:30 this am...proceeded to get decoys, blinds, guns, etc loaded and took off (about 2 miles as the duck flies from home). He took me to set up in a cornfield where he saw literally thousands of mallards yesterday. I set up the layout blinds while he toted stuff across the field. Set up our decoys-waited for what seemed like a long time (while watching a beautiful sunrise!). Geese started flying first, then the sky exploded with ducks! We ended up with seven mallards today. We returned home, unloaded the truck and trailer, and cleaned our birds. Had some running to do, then came home and Marty cooked mallard breasts (rare to medium rare)-seared on the charcoal grill. I chopped a salad and baked a potato. Yum Yum!!! Finally set down to rest with a glass of Zin. What a glorious day!!!!!

Picture #1 The Hide

Picture #2 The Layout

Picture #3 The Rewards

Picture #4 Remember, Mrs Billethead is always watching what's going on!!!!!

[mhowerton]

Awesome hunt.

[luckycraft]

Good to see those green heads. You log on to the DU website and they make it sound like the migration is over for MO. Guess not. Good job Mrs Billet.

[JohnP]

Awsome and congrats.

[Quillback]

Very Nice!

[Mrs. BilletHead]

Thanks guys,

Mr. BilletHead here. Luckycraft, I don't know what it is but we have more mallards here than I have ever seen. Four miles from here there is a roost that is loaded with birds. I have been watching them from afar leaving the place alone. We can hunt there but I am hoping they will eat the field where they are staying and work other places. The field we hunted yesterday is two miles away so they are going out some. We are trying to play it smart and have good hunts but not run the birds out. Have another place eight miles out where the conditions are close to the same. With the warmer temps we have had a thaw so they might spread out again. Also there have been days of great passage so you all to the South should be seeing more. It all could end with weather changes. All I can say is field hunting for ducks is something special. We worked five flocks yesterday from thirty birds to the largest of a hundred or more. Of the five flocks only one smaller one did not drop in. It may of had a bird or two that had been shot at before. The birds wanted to land right on the mojos which I think were to close as one of my drakes took six #2s to the breast. I guess he will make fajita meat for tonights meal,

BilletHead

[JohnP]

If you ever need any help swattin' away them pesky lil greenheads just holler . Never have field hunted for ducks, but can see how it can be blast with the right conditions. Not many crop fields over this way and few I know of I've never seen ducks or geese ever stack into them.