Hunting 2007

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Geof decided to lease a small pond on the Jacoby farm (where he also hunts dove) to hunt duck this year. So he needed a blind and got busy building one.

Inside, the bench is covered with carpet and so is the backrest.
The carpet is a remnant from the new carpet installed in our Baton Rouge home just weeks before we moved to Tulsa.

 

Judy admires the paint job outside the blind. Construction is complete and painting proceeds in our garage.

Geof is painting.
The pattern is for camoflage.

The pattern is made with a cut branch from a crepe myrtle tree and a paint sprayer.

All the panels come apart, and it barely fits in the small pickup truck.

The wheel was almost flat once we loaded the truck down.

Here was the old blind at the pond. We didn't build that one (This is classic Teddy Jacoby style).
Here's the finished product installed on the pond and covered with some natural camoflage. Hard to see, eh?
This is on the Jacoby pond. Joey has a nice mallard.

Here's another mallard. This one ate it, and looks funny legs up.
Joey heads out to get him. We've decided that Joey must be part hunting dog.
Nice Shootin', Tex!
Three gadwall and two mallards.

Same thing, breasts up.
David holds up the two mallards.
Same ducks; lots of pictures.
Still more pictures.

This is youth day early in the morning. Dave is with Geof, and only hunters under 16 (meaning Dave) can shoot. The ducks are not for practice - they are decoys.
Early, it was foggy. This is looking out of the blind on the Jacoby pond.
Dave got a teal and a gadwall.
Dave peeks out of the blind.

The teal.
The gadwall.
Later in the day. How could the pond look more beautiful?
This is a mess of ducks Joey brought home after a hunt with our friend, Ed Wortham, at Webbers Falls.

Joey got a new shotgun for Christmas (well, he got to use it early). This is a 12 gauge Baikal (a Russian-made gun) that shoots 3 1/2 inch shells.
Joey's two Baikals. The second gun is a 20 gauge over-under.
Joey loads the Baikal 12 gauge at the skeet range.

Dave is shooting Dad's Beretta over-under.
This is opening day of dove season in a corn field on John Butler's farm. John is our new go-to guy for hunting leases because he now has the hunting rights on most of the Jacoby farm.
We got a few doves, but the doves were pretty scarce this year. Joey hammered one of them and about shot it in half.

This is Dave in a blind at Webbers Falls with Ed Wortham. The duck is a hen mallard.
A couple of gadwall.
The decoys from out of the blind at Webbers Falls.
A beautiful sunrise through the clouds at Webbers Falls.

Two cormorants. As annoying as they are (we mistake them for geese from a long distance), they are a protected species.

 

A dead duck ready for fetching.

A fetched mallard drake.

The gadwall ready for cleaning.
Where's the rest of the duck?!?

This one got torn up a bit. The boys thought it looked funny. AFLAC!