Duck Jerky

Cut the breast into strips like you are making fajitas.  Use seasoning plus curing salt ( I use the kits from Hi Mountain  Seasonings) and let sit in fridge 24 hours.  Then smoke at 200-225 for a couple hours and you have duck jerky.  Tasty treat to take to the blind for the next hunt!

12/23/11 Duck Blind Hunt

We have finally got rain and it filled up the beaver pond and sloughs.  We hunted the beaver pond without expecting a whole lot and got a nice surprise.  3 man limit by 9:30.  Gadwalls and Wood Ducks.  No mallards in the area yet so hopefully they are on the way down and will find this hole.  NNW wind 5-10mph, 46 degrees, low overcast with some fog.

The view from the day before when I had about an hour to throw some brush on it.  The old barnwood I used helps make it look like its been there for years.

The water should come up about 4-6 more inches so the blind is about right on height.  The brush job was a quick one and still needs lots of work, but it was good enough for the Greyducks! (You know, Gadwalls!)

Green Machine Upgrade

I finally got around to building a removable bed for the GM to help carry extra feed around.  It has already come in handy filling feeders and doing some other work.

A Few Days in the Panhandle

Here are some pics from my annual trip to the Texas Panhandle.  It was a tough hunt this year with not much deer movement.  I was only able to find one mature shooter deer and he had broke off his whole right main beam past the brow tine.  We think the rut timing was a little late this year too.

Mule deer cull one of the guys got.

These guys come flying over frequently on some sort of low altitude training.  There are as many as 3 or 4 following each other closely and when you are sitting on top of a point you can virtually see the pilots!

I finally saw some geese.  They are late this year too.