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i'd take you up on it if i was here, but I'll be in minnesnowta over new years most likely smile

they just upped the forecast here to 5-9 inches of snow tomorrow, the spot we're hunting had hundreds of ducks on it today, so should be fun. i'm going to have trouble falling asleep tonight!

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GoBlue, are your study sites in VA then? In other words, will you be there this summer?

Nice pics. Looks like a good time. Take advantage of those black ducks in the Atlantic flyway. I shot a black duck, possibly a black duck/mallard cross in Minnesota. Not likely to repeat that feat.

Looks like fun hunting. Nice to get the finals done and then have some down time.

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yes, my study area is the entire length of the New River in Virginia. I'm stuck here year round smile

Well today was just one of those days. Thought we'd knock em dead, and there was (practically) nary a bird to be seen. Started off snowing real hard, we got the dekes out and 10 minutes later when shooting time came they were covered in snow. Had one lone mallard come in right away, then nothing for an hour. Then I stood up to pee, and was just taking my jacket off when a group came in out of the snow. Needless to say they saw me and peaced out. Fast forward 30 minutes, I try to start peeing again, and a group of Canadas come in, but my buddy's call was frozen and they drifted by just out of range. Picked up and moved to a new spot, greenhead comes in right away... pull up and line him up in the sights... and my trigger is frozen solid from the freezing rain. We ended up with a couple greenheads and a coupla black ducks and a very nice lookin hoodie. They were about the only thing flying, gonna try to do some home taxidermy oh him.full-23483-4329-pc160258.jpg

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hahah well had to eat a few ducks on thurs and friday so we didn't have overlimits all over the place smile

this is the second split, runs thru January 29. unfortunately I'll be out of the state from Dec 23rd thru Jan 16 - hope there's still birds around that late

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Here is our latest Montana bounty from 12-11-2010 hunting the Warm Water Spring Canals along the Yellowstone River. The fridgid temps make it a perfect time to hunt along the warm water where all the greenheads come too.

Went out yesterday saw plenty of ducks but another party had their yellowlab runnng all over the place instead of being steady in the blind.

Me & My Griffons "Rudy" on the right & "Budweiser" on the left.

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Rudy & Bud with their bounty on a 15 degree day in MT.

Breaking the myth pointers can't waterfowl hunt when its cold!!!

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More photos to come as the season goes to Jan 14th!

Regards,

Chris

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Here is our latest Montana bounty from 12-11-2010 hunting the Warm Water Spring Canals along the Yellowstone River. The fridgid temps make it a perfect time to hunt along the warm water where all the greenheads come too.

Went out yesterday saw plenty of ducks but another party had their yellowlab runnng all over the place instead of being steady in the blind.

Me & My Griffons "Rudy" on the right & "Budweiser" on the left.

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Rudy & Bud with their bounty on a 15 degree day in MT.

Breaking the myth pointers can't waterfowl hunt when its cold!!!

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More photos to come as the season goes to Jan 14th!

Regards,

Chris

Chris - Can't remember the difference between Griffons and English Wire Hair's but beautiful dogs. Are they pretty good on both ducks and geese? My springer is great on pheasants, but now so much on waterfowl. She does just fine on ducks but won't touch geese. The main issue is the non stop whimpering as she sits in the pit, gets old after about 30 seconds. Want a great all around dog, but the pointing ability of these really intrigues me.

Thanks

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Hey Maxxed out,

They are great both with Ducks & Geese. My dogs are trained to be versatile dogs so they will hunt all species of Upland Birds & all Waterfall. We have 2 Griffons & a young 6 month old English Setter.

The red Griffon with more furnishings on the left is "Bud" he is a rescue dog we found up near the Beartooth Wilderness this fall. He was very thin full of tape worms and starving to death so bad that he was eating barley & roadkill to survive. I'm guessing he is 10-12 months old right now. My point is that he & all the Wirehaired Pointing Griffons are very biddable when it comes to training.

My oldest on the right "Rudy" at 5 years is waterfowl crazy he has even learned to watch the sky with me when I'm calling in the blind and a time or two has shown me birds coming from other directions when I wasn 't looking. The rescue Griff is going to be a great dog also he has shown a great nose for upland, and suprisingly good so far in the Duck & Goose blinds. They are natural waterdogs so much it is hard to keep them out sometimes.

Here is Rudy with an action shot from last year on a goose retrieve:

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Gotta get going the temp is getting up above 10 deg hher in MT. Enough to get them out today for a little while on some pheasants!

Chris

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last hunt before going home for the holidays... slim pickins, and zero wind, birds were just landing wherever they wanted to. sure hope there's birds around when I get back in mid-Jan

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"It's so cold make it stop!"

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Maxxed Out,

The Griffs are great family dogs. We have two boys 9 & 13 and the oldest Griff has been around for almost 6 years now. When we lived in MN we ran an In-Home Daycare and he was great around the kids. The are very dependent on being around the family & kids. If they can't be with you the get all bent. They are also really protective of the kids, if you try to mess with the boys or they think the kids are in trouble or harms way they will put themselves between who ever it is & the boys to protect them.

Sorry to get off topic guys. Will post more pics this weekend of waterfowling here MT. Getting out on Friday morning for more Greenheads and again on Sunday.

Merry Christmas All!

Regards,

Chris

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