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Memories |
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By: Bwana J Date: April 5, 2013, 8:40 pm |
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When I got out of the Navy in 74 duck hunting in Ohio was |
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fantastic. Picked up a pair of chest waders, an old ski pole to |
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use as a wading staff, some shells and I hit the beaver marshes. |
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I did ok the first year, managed to meet a couple guys that had |
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webbing between their toes and we put birds on the water belly |
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up. The second year one of my friends owned 79 acres that the |
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beaver had dammed up flooding the whole place, a real little |
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slice of Heaven for us. We killed countless ducks there over the |
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years, Mallards, Pintails, Woodies, Widgeon, Teal with a few |
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Black ducks thrown in. Those were the days. I hunted with those |
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guys for years with each season brought to a close with a big |
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Wild duck dinner. We would do them up on a grill and served them |
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up medium rare on a bed of wild rice with wine sauce and plenty |
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of ice cold beer. Sure miss those days. Many of the guys I |
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hunted with are no longer with us and over the years the duck |
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populations have declined. We don't get together to hunt them |
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anymore, getting a little long in the tooth to be wading the |
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swamps like we used to. I still have all my gear and have been |
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thinking that if I can find a new marsh that mabe, just mabe I |
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can get a couple of the guys together for one last fling. |
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