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Dave Fuller
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Posted: Mon Aug 18th, 2008 01:02 am |
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| This off topic a bit but I'm bored with the threads and have nothing to contribute. While Mr Market Hunter was in Argentina my son and I headed north to Queen Charlotte Strait and caught limits of Coho and a few nice Kings and Pinks... killing time until dove season. Attached Image (viewed 418 times):
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Destry Hoffard
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Posted: Mon Aug 18th, 2008 01:09 am |
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Good work!!!
Do you ever go for the bandtail pigeons?
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Posted: Mon Aug 18th, 2008 01:14 am |
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| Yes I have, years ago we shot a lot of them in California. They come though here twice a year and if I'm not mistaken I saw one at the driving range last week. I haven't even checked on the season here in recent years. They are great to eat, you just don't tell your guest they are eating pigeon until after dinner.
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Posted: Mon Aug 18th, 2008 01:41 am |
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That's a hunt I've always wanted to make, the only wild pigeons left in America.
I've been asking and looking for several years but haven't gotten hooked up yet.
It will happen, just got to give it time.
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Gordon Green
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Posted: Mon Aug 18th, 2008 05:46 am |
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Hunting Band Tail Pieons is truly one of the most fun hunts imaginable. We used to hunt them on the ridges above lake Shasta, above Redding, CA. If there had been a fire in recent years, the hunting can be very good in the burned out areas. We camped near where we were hunting, and marinated them in Soy sauce and then barbequed them for dinner. A band tail zig zagging through the forest can make a dove look easy to hit.
Then the limit was dropped from 4 a day to 2 and we quit going. I believe it is still 2.
A lot of fun.
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Posted: Mon Aug 18th, 2008 06:20 pm |
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Therein lies the problem, the limit on them was dropped down to two birds in all of their range and a lot of guys stopped doing it. I've talked to a lot of folks that went for them but nobody does anymore. My friend David lives in Coastal Oregon and can't find anybody that hunts them anymore either.
One of these days......
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Gordon Green
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Posted: Mon Aug 18th, 2008 07:02 pm |
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That is definately the problem. Not only is the limit only 2 birds, but the opening is generally the last weekend of September out here and that is often only one week prior to the opening of Duck Season and we are all getting set up for that. Now that I live only about 3 hours away from our old pigeon hunting grounds I may try it this year.
I had a friend who we hunted pigeons with and for several years after they lowered the limit he still went over from Tule Lake to hunt them and enjoyed it. He was a duck hunting guide at Tule Lake for over 40 years and is the most accomplished hunter and fisherman I have ever met. He thinks band tail hunting is the most fun and challanging bird he has ever had hunted. He retired several years ago and moved to Soldatna, AK. and now spends his time hunting ducks in Alaska and fishing for salmon in the local rivers. Rough Life.
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Posted: Mon Aug 18th, 2008 07:06 pm |
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Be sure and take some pictures if you do go this fall, be interesting to see the area and how you're hunting the birds.
Have you hunted the Tule Lake area much? Another West Coast bird that's always held a fascination for me is the Tule Goose. Be near impossible to actually come out there and hunt them though, I have a friend who's hunted that area a lot for many years and has never taken one.
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Posted: Tue Aug 19th, 2008 03:32 am |
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Destry,
I've been hunting Tule Lake since 1962. My son and I and a friend own an old farm house which was started in 1950 as a commercial hunt club, the Greenhead Lodge. It folded after several years and became private and over the years, the club dwindled down to the three of us. The photo below was our birds from the opening weekend several years ago, thus the appropriate name. I have never shot a Tule Goose, although my friend mentioned earlier had shot several over his years as a guide and had a couple mounted.
We've seen some fantastic hunts and some really bad years, but I suspect that is the case anywhere. The main Geese we shoot are White Fronts, Snows, Honkers and a very few Blue's. Most of the ducks are puddle ducks, Mallards, Widgeon, teal and the occasional Can that dive bombs us at 60 MPH to humble us.
I'm loooking forward to this year as I now own a 10ga Syracuse Quality 2 L.C. Smith and splurged on a couple of boxes of Black powder Bismuth shells. It has 32" barrels and weighs in at a svelte 11lbs. I can't wait to see if I can down some greenheads with it. I plan on having one person to take movies and one to spot the shot.
Snows stoping at Tule Lake on their way north in April
Early Greenhead Lodge poster and photos
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Posted: Tue Aug 19th, 2008 07:50 pm |
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Wow!!!!
You boys know how to live.
Has there ever been a Tule Goose taken on the club that you know of?
You boys are wayyy ahead of me, I've never shot a regular whitefront even. I called one in for some boys once though, guess that sorta counts.
Ever get into any cinammon teal?
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Posted: Wed Aug 20th, 2008 04:49 am |
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It's a pretty nice place to get away to. Rustic to say the least but I love it over there. I've never been in a group where a Tule Goose was taken. They are really rare out here. White Fronts are the most common early in the season and the Snows come in later. The limits have always been pretty liberal on the White Fronts.
I have heard of Cinnamon Teal being taken out here, but I have only seen one taken. We have mostly Greenwings. Very few Bluewings.
This is also not Wood Duck territory. I have never shot one and my son shot his first one last fall.
We are thinking of a duck hunt in Argentina. Several of my buddies have been down there to shoot doves, but that really hasn't tripped my trigger. Shooting a thousand rounds a day until your shoulder falls off lacks a certain luster for me, though I don't know anyone who has done it that doesn't swear it was the most fun they have ever had with a gun. The duck hunt looks a lot more interesting to me. I figure I could scrape up the $$ for a trip and may do so in the next year or so. Would you do it again or is it one of those things that you are glad you did but don't have the desire to do again?
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Posted: Wed Aug 20th, 2008 08:58 pm |
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I'd go again in a heartbeat, it was a great trip and I'm going to try to go back next summer.
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Posted: Wed Aug 20th, 2008 11:23 pm |
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| El Hombre Grande! Next year in Buenos Aires! Besides, Manuel has $2K of mine...
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Posted: Sat Aug 23rd, 2008 01:32 pm |
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Destry:
Just a small note, but let me compliment you on bringing along and using an old Remington humpback.
Maybe not as glamorus as a fine SXS, but a genuine classic nevertheless, solid and dependable as a Model T.
It's good to see one out doing what it was made to do.
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Posted: Sat Aug 23rd, 2008 10:05 pm |
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This one is particularly special to me as when I got it it was an absolute wreck. Our own Jeff Mulliken insisted that I send it to him and he totally reworked it, refinished the stocks, and got it back in flawless operation again for me. All free of charge!!!
It's a first year of production gun (1905) so it's over 100 years old and still game to the core as my favorite writer MacQuarrie would say.
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