Sportsman's Paradise

Since the license plates of Louisiana indicate that Louisiana is a sportsman's paradise, Jordan had to test out the waters, so to speak. He passed his Hunters Ed course, got a Louisiana hunting license, and found a place to hunt for duck and geese before the duck season ended. He and 5 other guys went with two callers, (the main guy, David, and his short round), to a duck blind in a levy between two rice fields.


Here was the view from the blind.

And here are lots of the decoys.

David would call in the ducks or the geese, and then he'd tell when to shoot. Jordan said the ducks zoomed down incredibly fast. They all shot, and when they got one, David's dog, Kas, knew just what to do.

Kas coming back with the duck.

Good dog!

It's a good think Kas was there because some of their ducks/geese fell FAR away. Do you see that black speck on the other side of the rice field? That's Kas working on retrieving a Canadian goose!

Here are some of the ducks and geese that they killed that day.

They killed 13 waterfowl in all. What a handful!

When they were finished for the day, they headed back to their cars, and they saw TONS of birds flying by. Jordan got a close-up of one of the V's, and he also took a video of it.





Jordan got to bring home a duck and a goose. And he knows he shot the goose because he got two shots off before anyone else did, and the goose was already in the water! (Yes - the second shot was JUST to make sure!)


A female Mallard
A Ross' goose - David said this was the biggest Ross' goose he's seen this season.

Soon after these photos were taken, Jordan gutted his kill, and now we have a goose and a duck in the freezer. - I think we'll be having duck stew and maybe a Christmas goose in the near future!