The Cut

[TXFowler]

Update: there was a lot of teal, some greys and mottled ducks but we only scratched 2 GW out of the 10 shells fired (one teal took 6 rounds to kill chasing her through the marsh). The other 4 misses were desperation shots on birds that snuck in (there was a lot of that-the conditions were horrible). 10 min before shooting light we had hundreds of teal dip in and out of the deeks, some as close as 5 yards. We’re weren’t where they wanted to be, but they all checked in before shooting time. Shooting time came and the damn shorebirds decided to rob us of every shooting opportunity until we picked up and moved to the X about 200 yds away. 20-30 west wind with limited amount of cover tall enough to conceal us made it almost impossible. The sun took care of the rest. We had more birds drop in that we could not see due to the sun than I can count. Started packing up at 1030 and 12 greys tried to sit on our face! That’s how it goes, but it was one that will be hard to forget with all those teal before legal. We could’ve grabbed half of them.

ETA: responding to the shooting ability comments… the tech that picked us up said he picked up one of his groups at 9 am and they had shot 40 shells and didn’t cut a feather. I believe I woulda given up at 9 too!