Great Alberta Shoot Out, Oct 10-18,2003
These pictures show some of our annul hunting week, hold the cursor on pictures to see headings, and click them to enlarge. 
We scouted around Stettler on Friday and Saturday, one Snow Goose the only result.  We heard Ducks were in the Brooks area, so drove there on Sunday, finding Lake Newell with what seemed like good prospects.
The morning shoot, only two mallards, but lots of fun with Gadwells and Baldpates.
The wait, will they come with the sun today, those pesky ducks?
Evening shoot at Lake Newell near Brooks, Alberta, Monday 13 Oct 03
The setting in daylight. No substitute for a fine Labrador!  Remington had a busy day on Monday, 30 some retrieves.
Plains Motor Inn, home sweet home.
Back to Stettler on Tuesday, we resumed the wild goose chase.  Tuesday we tried our decoys and new blind "monster" decoys.  We didn't see our flock, but had good fun with passing Snow and White-Fronts, but our shooting could have been straighter.
Jim had an exploding ginger ale, seems the frig was set too high.  Started our day with a loud bang.
Jim and the decoys being repacked, we didn't attract any Canadas but did nab a passing White front(speckled belly). We tried some decoy large enough to hide parts of us underneath, we flared the Canadas badly regardless.  What are we doing wrong?
Wednesday found us pass shooting at Shooting Lake in the early am, and marching miles for pheasants to no result, luckily we saw a rooster as we drove out.  Wednesday eve we put out our set in a pea-field, we flared two flocks before retreating to the fields edge.  We had good passing large Canadas, and downed two. 
Wednesday evening yielded two large Canada geese, 10 and 11 lbs each, steel pellets in both!!
Remington retreived his first pheasant on Wednesday, a fortunate road sighting as we left the Buck for Wildlife pheasant area.
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Thursday am we had a great opportunity, Canadas flying into a stiff wind, hanging over us like kites on a string...amazingly we both missed.  Thursday evening we found a small slough filled with geese, and had the fortune to have some pass close to us.  Only one White-front succombed, but we had visions of a great pass shoot for Friday am.  We had to decide which way they would go, Jim picked a pea field that had been teeming with thousands on Thursday evening, I opted for where we had been close on Thursday, in line with other stubble fields.   I turned out the lucky one, White-fronts tested me.  Jim had to spectate. 

Another good week hunting, hopefully a story to be continued.
We left our decoys to hide behind haybales as waves of geese passed over us for a pea field beyond our set-up. Friday morning pass shoot and three white front geese, not bad for getaway day!
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