http://quackertracker.com Duck hunting in Missouri Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:44:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hunted Old Monroe Sunday afternoon on the north side. When I got into blind 1, I was by myself and had a pair of mallards work in. They kept circling and acting like they wanted into the pool, but they also made a couple passes over the top of me ... http://quackertracker.com/?p=199 Hunt Grand Pass on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving with Dan, Patrick and Ed. Dan had a reservation and pulled pill 8. Sweet Jesus! So we picked pool 5W and hunted the SE portion of it near some flooded corn. For once in a blue moon, we were actually ready at ... http://quackertracker.com/?p=196 Hunted Old Monroe on Saturday morning. It warmed up just in time for the weekend. Damn. Didn't expect to have much luck, but Hubbard and I hunted blind 1 on the north side. There were small ducks flying early on - mostly wood ducks and teal. Saw lots of them fly ... http://quackertracker.com/?p=185 Hubbard and I decided to try our luck at Ted Shanks on Wednesday Nov. 11. The bird count was 18,000+ birds and draw time was 4 a.m. We got there around 3:30. Hubbard was the first guy to the window for the poorline and managed to pull pill #2! Absolutely ... http://quackertracker.com/?p=173 Get the Mallard Migration widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info) http://quackertracker.com/?p=148 Opening day was uneventful. We were able to hunt, even though the area had received major flooding. Shooting time was 6:07, and we walked in about 30 minutes before it. We were hunting the north side, so Jeff and George took blind 1, and Dan and I decided to hunt blind ... http://quackertracker.com/?p=169 The heavy rainfalls that we've had over the past week has caused some major flooding. Right now, the Cuivre River is above flood levels, and we can't even get to our blinds to see if they are OK for the opener on Saturday. Not looking good. Here's a screen shot ... http://quackertracker.com/?p=163 Went to Cabela's on Saturday morning with my daughter to pick up an order. I had ordered a Killer Weed layout blind kit (Golden Harvest), and drab green K-L Sport Sled. The sled should pull really well behind the layout boat, and I can put decoys and gear in it. ... http://quackertracker.com/?p=156 I had a chance to break my Benelli Nova apart and take a look inside the action. Boy, was it dirty. No rust or anything too bad, just a lot of dirt and debris. I'm not really sure when the last time was that I cleaned it, which is why ... http://quackertracker.com/?p=154 I forgot to mention that we have a star among us this season. Jeff's dog Bogey made the cover of waterfowler.com! They've moved on to a new picture, but here's what it looked like. It was shot from inside blind 6, facing west towards blind 5. [caption id="attachment_131" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Bogey ... http://quackertracker.com/?p=132