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MattL last won the day on December 29 2016
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Another neat pic from this morning. A blind man could've followed this blood trail in the snow. He only made it about 40 yards.
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I don't even use bungees. It might be tough to decipher from this picture but you can wrap the tree stand straps up and over the sticks and behind the stand in a figure 8 pattern. It holds everything together tightly and quietly.
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Filled my tag this morning! He's not very big but as I get older it seems putting meat in the freezer is becoming more important than adding to my trophy collection.
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Waterfowl Reports
MattL replied to Lunker's topic in Duck Hunting - Geese - Waterfowl-Sandhill Cranes
Not much to report down in the southern part of the state. Need some cooler weather to push some new birds down. I knocked down a pair of wood ducks this morning. Fair number of divers buzzing around, but I was hunting skinny water with a puddler spread. -
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MattL replied to goblueM's topic in Duck Hunting - Geese - Waterfowl-Sandhill Cranes
Had a good shoot yesterday. I didn't do any scouting late last week because I was set on bow hunting. Saw a ton of birds while in the stand so I scouted Saturday afternoon and found a good hunt for Sunday. The drake widgeon is in my freezer and likely going on the wall. I didn't take any closeup pics of it, when I got home my phone was wet and not working. -
I actually cheated and used a pre-mixed brat seasoning packet with about 60% goose meat and 40% pork roast. Ground it twice through the coarse plate and mixed in the wild rice and chopped jalapenos prior to stuffing.
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MattL reacted to a post in a topic: Tagged out!
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Well that was stupid, but fun!
MattL replied to Wanderer's topic in Duck Hunting - Geese - Waterfowl-Sandhill Cranes
I've been in loaded up Jon boats with only a few inches of freeboard. Not something I'm going to do now that I'm older and wiser. I also remember a time about 15 years ago getting out of school early due to a November snowstorm and driving my truck way too fast for the conditions to get out hunting. Didn't end up in the ditch, but i remember the snow was coming down so hard you couldn't see much. I always had a shotgun behind the seat of my truck parked in the school parking lot. Never seemed like a big deal at the time...but then again it stayed behind the seat and I kept my mou -
Yep! Probably should've mentioned that. I just used my regular brat mix that I use on venison brats, but added the cooked wild rice and jalapeños for a little extra flavor.
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I had a bunch of ducks/geese from the past weekends so I decided to do up a couple different batches out of my "comfort zone". Last night I stuffed a 5 lb batch of fresh goose brats and grilled up a couple tonight. I think I hit a home run on this one! Easily one of my favorite brats, although like I said I never got too crazy in the past. I used 1 cup of wild rice (which turns into about 4 after cooking) and 3 jalapeños (partially de-seeded and de-veined) for a 5 pound batch of roughly 60:40 goose to pork. I probably could have scaled the rice back a bit, but it's not overwhelming.
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Most wonderful time of the year
MattL replied to Neighbor_guy's topic in Duck Hunting - Geese - Waterfowl-Sandhill Cranes
I had a good solo shoot and a crazy mixed bag for southern MN this time of year. 2 honkers, 2 woodies, pintail, ringneck, and what I'm 99% sure is a hen or immature drake ruddy...never shot one before and I don't really hunt divers. -
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MattL replied to goblueM's topic in Duck Hunting - Geese - Waterfowl-Sandhill Cranes
Pretty tough going this morning but we managed to scratch out a few birds. -
Most wonderful time of the year
MattL replied to Neighbor_guy's topic in Duck Hunting - Geese - Waterfowl-Sandhill Cranes
Overall decent weekend for us. A couple guys started scouting Thursday and found a couple real good opportunities for Saturday morning. We decided to roll the dice and hunt a field on Saturday AM that was drawing in geese Friday AM. That didn't pan out for us and we only got 2 birds to decoy. Back to scouting on Saturday afternoon and we lined up a slough for the morning holding a mixed bag of ducks. We ended up with a 4 man limit of woodies, mallards, gadwall, and teal in about an hour. Should have been quicker than that but 2 of us didn't get set up exactly how we planned due to water d -
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The night before
MattL replied to monstermoose78's topic in Duck Hunting - Geese - Waterfowl-Sandhill Cranes
Good luck! Hopefully your nephew can knock down some birds so the pup can see some action. -
I've shot a couple different brands of fixed and mechanicals and they've all killed deer. The last 4 or 5 deer were with original muzzy 3 blades because they are one of the least expensive and most reliable heads. I don't have any complaints with any of the other heads but it gets spendy flinging $15+ heads into yotes.