Mexico is better

[mudnut1970]

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[mudnut1970]

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[mudnut1970]

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[mudnut1970]

Don’t know why the pics are sideways also it won’t let me post the big groups of ducks that will killed.

[mudnut1970]

By the end of the week 1108 ducks were pickup over 700 doves and over 200 quail were pick up. It was a trip I will never forget. Mexico has a different look on ducks. Lead no plug and bait there are so many ducks there. It would be easier for me to say what duck wasn’t killed than was. This was in dark Mexico A three hour ride from the border a few check points and cartel also long rides down dirt roads. I didn’t get on the red heads like so groups but I shot a shit tons of blacks and pin tails. We fed a bunch of families in San Fernando

[MKW]

By the end of the week 1108 ducks were pickup over 700 doves and over 200 quail were pick up. It was a trip I will never forget. Mexico has a different look on ducks. Lead no plug and bait there are so many ducks there. It would be easier for me to say what duck wasn’t killed than was. This was in dark Mexico A three hour ride from the border a few check points and cartel also long rides down dirt roads. I didn’t get on the red heads like so groups but I shot a shit tons of blacks and pin tails. We fed a bunch of families in San Fernando

Nice! Did you hunt with Rueben Caballero's outfit? I hunted with them out of San Fernando many years ago and the amount of ducks and quail was stupid.

[scdiver]

Rueben is good people. I want to go back with him in the next year or so to shoot quail and doves.

[bigtimeduckhunter]

Are those scaled quail?

[Highstrung]

I've hunted with him.. his nephew and I rode through San Fernando years ago because I told him hos tequila and scotch selection was terrible. The young man who owned the property on Laguna and I sat up one night going shot for shot.. I held my own against those guys, but the next morning it's like you get up and take a shitty dirt road to Edisto to hunt ducks, drive back, eat then take another shitty dirt road to Augusta and shoot doves. I had a ball though, he wasn't far removed from the old Pintail lodge when I hunted with him. Ducks and doves would be the only thing I'd hunt with him again. I've done quail, I'd rather hunt behind a dog. Hunting with a couple young men and sticks just wasn't the same.. plus the last time I shot quail down there it was a heavy mist, light rain, I'm not shooting a quail on the ground. I'd rather go shoot a hundred or so doves. I haven't been back since I quit drinking, still could be fun. I will say, that I put my gun down a couple times and enjoyed watching ducks. I fell in love with the 390s down there, and it just wasn't fair.

[scdiver]

I mainly want to shoot them and eat them while there. They cooked us a few fried quail about every meal because we asked for it as an app.


Agree on the dogs, was asking them if I could bring one then watched the beaters kill some hammer rattle snakes while we were walking hedgerows.


Haven't shot ducks with him but heard it's pretty fantastic.

[Highstrung]

Yeah, killed a western that was prehistoric looking. I ate a ton of teal and some kind of cactus.. didn't touch anything else green down there. One of my early lessons with travel to places much worse then that was to be aware of anything uncooked, because they probably washed it with their water.

[Highstrung]

I killed a Mexican Mallard with one of my first shots down there.. I thought real hard about trying to get him back, just to mount him next to two other brown ducks.

[mudnut1970]

Yes it was with Ruben. Those bird boys can find a quail in some thick stuff. No snakes were seen kill a few jack rabbits and a bird boy caught a cotton tail with his bare hands.

[mello_collins]

Awesome!

[Black Bart]

Looks like an amazing trip. Are you able to bring anything home, or do you have to donate everything you kill?

[mudnut1970]

Can’t bring anything back. Some people are getting some birds mounted down there and will pick them up next year.

[Highstrung]

I figured that would be hard now. I witnessed a group years ago that brought along coolers for transport back, they wanted their own guy to do it. They were lugging out 20ish birds, seemed excessive. I heard they had a tougher time in transport.. we waved at the agents coming back through

[darealdeal]

What’s a trip like that run nowadays if you don’t mind sharing that information.

[PharmHunter]

Looks like a heck of a good time!

[JABIII]

Whack em...