Bull Nutria
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This passed Saturday my 39 year old son and I hunted woodcock together in a small wood lot in SLA. With the recent very cold weather across the south woodcock have migrated to this area. My son and I hunted woodcock religiously when he was a preteen and teenager. we had little spots to hunt all around our town. We used my yellow lab.
Fast forward to last Saturday we met at the woodlot and in the course of about 2 hours flushed a dozen cocks and took the legal limit of 3 each. He used his black lab bitch and I used my yellow lab bitch. Both dogs did well for never hunting woodcock before. My son used a Beretta 20ga auto with a cylinder choke. I used my maternal grandfathers quail gun mentioned above. I used my special woodcock reloads with 1.25oz of #9 shot that I made in 1995!
Since the limit has been lowered to 3 woodcock each i rarely see woodcock, the warmer weather we have in most years limits there migration this far south.
Anyway I thought I would share this step back into yesteryear!
Bull
Fast forward to last Saturday we met at the woodlot and in the course of about 2 hours flushed a dozen cocks and took the legal limit of 3 each. He used his black lab bitch and I used my yellow lab bitch. Both dogs did well for never hunting woodcock before. My son used a Beretta 20ga auto with a cylinder choke. I used my maternal grandfathers quail gun mentioned above. I used my special woodcock reloads with 1.25oz of #9 shot that I made in 1995!
Since the limit has been lowered to 3 woodcock each i rarely see woodcock, the warmer weather we have in most years limits there migration this far south.
Anyway I thought I would share this step back into yesteryear!
Bull