Tough hunt with a good buddy...

The goose guiding business has been pretty slow this year...Our guide service in years past would book four or five groups a day on a regular goose day. The last couple of years it has gotten slower and slower. This year we have records amounts of geese for this time of year and no clients to take out...I could just jump into a pit with one of the smaller groups that Paul has been taking out, but I also enjoy just hunting with the guys where the success might not be as, but the company always makes up for lack of fast shooting.

Jim, a guy I work with have hit it off since the day we met at work over eight years ago. I have seen his talents on a goose call and duck call progress every year and he is just a great guy to hang around...We have the same sense of humor and it makes for some pretty good laughs in the duck blind, usually at a fellow hunters expense...there are no punches pulled when you are hunting with us together. :) We hunted a little out of the way place that he has been hunting for years...It can be kinda "Tough Duty" but at times can be pretty good. The best part about it is that it is only 10 minutes away from the house which makes for easy hunting. The hunt was really slow, we only saw a handful of ducks all morning and the ones we seen we were able to coax into the decoys...

My boy Jake loves to go hunting with the guys, he isn't shooting yet, he will be getting his Hunters Safety card next Spring. I have promised him that we would try turkey hunting. It is a pretty good comedy when he is in the blind tough, he is a natural comedian when things get pretty slow...The highlight of the hunt was when we heard a single goose honking down the river, Jim and I both did the double team smack down on him and called him into the decoys after circling our spread, getting lower and lower on every pass...finally he started to drop the feet and dump his big ASS into the deeks...Jim and I called the shot and we both dumped the bird with a shot each...The goose landed with a big splash and Jake who had been waiting to get another boat ride, rode out and scooped up the big ol' Gander...It was a good way to finish up a slow hunt.