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    The cranes finally started showing up the last couple of days. We got a few in with the snow a couple of weeks ago, but I think the wildfire smoke and warming temps cut that push short. Went out this am to where there was nada last Saturday and knocked down a two man limit in a hurry. We forgot to take pics, as we were in a hurry to get to my buds taxidermy shop to clean the birds and try to do a quick, rough mount on some to add to my meager decoy spread. Had three decoys this morning...they arrived shortly after season last year...and most were locked up and setting their feet twenty yards in front of us. We will have 6 decoys tomorrow...maybe the first ever decoys that were flying 24 hours earlier. I got a new tripod and will be filming the action tomorrow to make up for not having any crane-porn for y'all tonight...of course, that will likely be the kiss of death for our hunt. If you've never hunted these birds, you are missing out. My buddy folded one that swung around fairly high, and turned to me giggling and said "you really CAN feel it when it they hit the ground!" They decoy great; they are incredibly vocal; they are Yuuuuuge; they are just as tasty as a great beef fliet mignon...they are perfect! Stay tuned for my best attempt to get a good hunt on film.
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    Let me get my hat...
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    Can’t wait..

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    Fire with extreme prejudice on said birds.

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    It was a “shoot” yesterday and not so much of anything today. Warm south wind...they were hanging in a field we can hunt, but they weren’t flying like yesterday. We did scratch 4 out of the only group that gave us a look. Decent video for the first bird folded. Will post it up after I finish this burrito snd big ass draft beer!
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    Post some pics! We have a ton right now. Different rules here though.

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    These will get better as the season progresses...hopefully!

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    Keep putting up videos. Especially during duck season. If your videos are as funny as your stories then you should start making some money for it.

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    I think Divebomb or one of the silhouette decoy companies makes some 2D decoys of cranes. Seems a million times easier than stuffers. Granted I've only seen two lost cranes in my life and never hunted them. Keep the reports coming, I enjoy them.

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    Good stuff WWD.

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    Very nice.

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    One of the few birds that lives up to the hype as to eating quality.
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    That is great. Thanks for sharing

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    Really cool brother!
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    I’ve been sitting tucked back under olive trees trying to fill my deer tag the last two days. Yesterday, I had a nice 8pt whitetail and four small (I’ll still kill em) mulies cruise by from 8-20 yards in two different set ups...on the side of the tree I wasn’t sitting in. Some things with deer hunting are simply universal. I’d give a thousand dollars for there to be a poplar, oak, hickory or some other tall straight tree for me to climb around here. I’ll probably try the cranes again in the mornings and deer hunt the afternoons...the cranes eat better anyway.
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    Good stuff!!! Living the dream!
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    Sorry about the kill shot not being in the frame, but when I edit with iMovie, it cuts the picture off...crops it. In the original, the Crane that Wade shot folds in frame and you can see the ass end of the one I was aiming at on my second shot as it folded...unfortunately, it was just a hair out of frame, because after whiffing my first shot, I folded two with my second shot. The birds are not here in big numbers yet, but we are going to be hunting a spot that had ~50 feeding at 10:00 this am. Should be a better spot to film, as we will be standing up in weeds vs crawling up under the weeds like we have been. I may use my camcorder tomorrow if I can find the charger! Anyhoo...this is decent, and I hit record during a true, fully southern, redneck conversation about the demise of two SC deer...I didn’t record my story...which led to Wade’s story...but you get the end of it and the jist! Hope y’all enjoy.

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    3 more fresh decoys. Oh and fire the cameraman. lol
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    Yup...I suck at the camerawork part of this. I might put the camera about 40 yards away pointing above us and just let it run tomorrow.
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