That chocolate lab didn't belong to me. Whenever I hunted that spot he would escape from his owners house and spend 1/2 the day with me. That dog loved to retrieve birds! When I packed up he would head back home.
Bob A.
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It took me over two hours to pick up the birds and set them up for that photo. I set the 35mm still camera on a trypod and ran over to my spot before the shudder clicked. I shot over 500 the day before with a 20 gauge using a skeet load of # 8's. The coyotes ate over a hundred of them once the sun went down the day I shot them. I went back the next day to pick them all up plus have real good lighting inorder to make a nice photo. I had the perfect spot with that embankment right there so you could really see the birds. Glad you enjoyed the photo.
Bob A.
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Faint of heart my ASS. You just want to make us jealous. I must say you do a good job of that.
But I am glad to say that's all over with cause, I know where you hunt Bob. Its true, oh yes its true. For this year you will have some Pain and Popper to deal with this year. ( That would be JonthePain and PuppyPopper for the ones that don't get that.)
It took me over two hours to pick up the birds and set them up for that photo. I set the 35mm still camera on a trypod and ran over to my spot before the shudder clicked. I shot over 500 the day before with a 20 gauge using a skeet load of # 8's. The coyotes ate over a hundred of them once the sun went down the day I shot them. I went back the next day to pick them all up plus have real good lighting inorder to make a nice photo. I had the perfect spot with that embankment right there so you could really see the birds. Glad you enjoyed the photo.
Bob A.
Fabulous photos Bob. Once in a lifetime solo shoot and good thing you took the time to line up your birds. You must of had them in tight to do so well with a 20 and skeet loads. Way less punishing on the shooter as well.
Further, my observation and belief being that smaller shotguns don't spook incomers as much as the more solid report of a 12. I've had crow follow eachother in to certain death when shooting my 16's and light loads of 8 shot. Almost never with a 12 unless the wind is up.
A comment on the coyotes too. I often find all my dead crows cleaned up by yotes as well. Once when there was snow on the ground I tracked some and found they were caching the dead crows in the bush and in an old culvert. I would assume for future onsumption?
Ted
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It's not often when you get a real good shoot in the right kind of spot to lay them out in a grid pattern for a photo.
Here is a good example in this photo, Dick Kilbane and I shot 585 crows in this spot a few years ago. Would have been perhaps 50 more if I was not out there taking action photos of Dick, plus spooking some of the birds.
Those are sun sticks that Dick & I invented. Whenever the wind is in the north you are always looking into the sun. We use them as a sun block so we can see underneath them "in the shade" and see the birds coming without being blinded by the sun! They are adjustable so you can raise and lower them as the sun moves. They work just great!
Bob A.
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I was very fortunate to get a good shoot in a place where I could display the birds. That does not happen very often. The other photo where I am with the lab in the snow was taken on a different flyway roughly 4 miles west of where the 506 were shot. It takes plenty of time setting up those kind of photos.
Bob A.
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