We hunted in that wheat field and it was a good hunt. We knocked down 9 geese. Kevin and Randy came out and hunted with us. We ended up setting up a little to close to the edge of the field, but the geese still were coming in. If only our accuracy was good. With 5 people hunting (Kevin opted to just collect our birds and chase down runners), you’d think that when 5 birds come in, none of them would leave. As luck would have it, only two came down, and I think all 5 of us shot at the two as they were pretty shot up. Given four of us have 3 round capacities and Neal has just an over-under shotgun, that gives us 14 rounds flying in the air. By 9am, the birds had stopped flying and we decided to leave the decoys out and hunt it again in the evening when they’d be flying again. We got another 5 in the evening for a total of 14 birds.Packing up, we’ve found we’re now short one full-body decoy. If it’s not in the trailer tomorrow, then there’s a coyote out there that is really disapointed. I also need to strip my shotgun down soon as the action’s jammed twice today. Once when ejecting a spent casing, and once when loading the next shell. It could just be the condition of the old box of shells I was trying to use up today, or it could be all the dirt it’s been in from that one farmer’s field, or maybe I just got wheat in the action when loading shells those two times. Just to be safe though, I should strip it down. It’s frustrating, and a little scary, when you pull the trigger and nothing happens.

Tomorrow we hunt the pea field we hunted Monday, hopefully the birds aren’t too spooked still, but given we hunted the wheat field twice in one day today, the birds don’t seem to spooky yet this season.