AN OFF-SEASON IS A TIME TO REFLECT ON WHAT WAS DONE RIGHT, WHAT WAS DONE WRONG, AND WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO GET BETTER. In sports, as in every walk of life, there is a busy time and a not so busy time. There is the ‘off-season’, a time when everything is kind of slow, not much to do…
Category: Waterfowl Hunting
Dismal Days in the Duck Factory!
Yikes!! Either you have corn and birds or you are left wanting right now. The Golden Kernel is ruling the day and any areas that are not loaded with harvested corn are basically devoid of fowl. Access to the worked wheat next to the JAMMIN” corn field only produced these juvies! With not many options left we went to the…
Waterfowl Roller Coaster Week-Feast or Famine
Wow! what a Roller Coaster of a week and a half here in the Duck Factory! Birds are on the move. Peak Pressure! A week and a half ago was peak pressure week here on the Northern Tier of North Dakota. North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin all held their “No School” Teacher’s Conventions on this weekend and it brings a…
The North Dakota Grand Slam
As in Baseball, The ND Grand Slam is A Most Exciting and Rare Event! Aside from a by the nose play at the plate to win a game or a Kirby Puckett, wall climbing, World Series saving, Home Run robbing catch there is probably not a more exciting play in baseball than the Grand Slam. As I sit here on…
Out of My Comfort Zone!: Part 1
Failed Attempt at a Bull Can Has Me Reminiscing Again About Another ‘Out of My Element’ Hunt I am a field hunter when it comes to Waterfowl, we leave the bedroom alone. Let em rest. Get em when they come to feed! Any hunt not in a wheat/barley, soybean, or corn field for me is kind of outside the norm.…