Weekend with Friends

At the last minute last week, I called my good friends Greg and Taylor Ells who live down in S. Central ND to do some hunting down that way.  I try to get down there at least once a season as it’s always a good time.

It was an interesting weekend to say the least.  Kent Hrbek Outdoors was in town doing some filming and we ran into them on Saturday night.  He’s a class act and my second time running into him in rural ND out hunting.

Saturday, my friend Taylor got his first ever duck band and it was long overdue.  He’s lost on drawing straws in the past and already has 4 goose bands, but this was his first official duck.  That was a highlight of the weekend for sure.

Sunday we had rain in the forecast.  We were hesitant about whether or not we should hunt a big canada goose feed we found the night before.  It was spitting some rain while setting up, but it did break come shooting time.  Since we knew more rain was soon to come, we opted to only put out silhouette decoys (8 dozen Real Geese Pro II’s) in case we had to pickup in a hurry.  It had been MANY years since I hunted canadas without full bodies, but I’m glad we went this route.  It was the quickest hunt of the season, and we were done and out of the field by 8:30.  We harvested both big and lesser canadas, and they all came right down the pike and into the landing zone, feet down.  Quite an enjoyable weekend, and easy hunting to boot.  Can’t beat that!