Chris's weekend goose hunt

Here is his story: Didn’t get the time to visit this weekend. Did a goose hunt on Sat am. Was a disaster from the start but lots of stories. - Forgot the jerky and had to circle home, Ran the wrong way down a street past the entire HDG police force at 0530am, however they were to stunned to react since I didn’t have my lights on either. - Got hit with a “case’ while firmly entombed in my dry suit and had to run off near the RR track for Emergency operations, got to wave good morning to the conductor as the train came over and spotlighted me with the high beam at an extremely in opportune moment in time. - Extreme low tide and high mud, made the legion launch inoperable, eventually got the boat pulled out from axle deep mud. - Went to the main docks after scrounging for the $10 to launch, for some reason couldn’t shake the boat lose, after I backed the truck back end fully under water, we figured out that the trailer was floating under the boat and the boat had been tied down by Dave on his last trip… guys couldn’t figure out why the lights of the truck looked funny, until they realized the lights were underwater… couple of boatloads of other hunters got a good chuckle on that one. - Couldn’t get into our set up spot because not enough water, ended up way out, in muck that was knee deep. - Nearly died of a heart attack after trying to walk the 500 yards through knee deep muck, - Killed a buffle head on the walk in and had to walk back 50 yards to get it – definitely not worth it. - Found out that Eric had shot at a merganser when I was about 50 yards out of the decoys, I never even knew it, my heartbeat was pounding in my head so bad I couldn’t hear anything, was on the verge of collapsing from heatstroke (of course the water was back in the boat) was dying of thirst. – But we had the extra spicy Jerky! - Had one good shot on a pair of geese that split off a large flock, we hit the lead and he pulled up but didn’t drop, then Tom smacked that back one and it dropped about a 100 yards out, no way we could get to it and the boat was a good 45 minute walk away, had to watch the Christmas Goose swim off. - Very little movement, not many opportunities, super exercise for two teaspoonful sized pieces of Bufflehead breasts. Took the rest of the weekend to recover, me from the work, Eric and Tom from laughing to hard. - Dave threw a nice Doe over the fence that he killed in an Ellicott City backyard, so spent 4 hours cutting that up, got me in some hot water for being “absent” to long but have meat for jerky now! This was added by Tom: While the list seems long, Chris forgot to mention he fell while trying to throw a tangled up duck decoy. His feet were stuck in knee high mud and he lost his balance. Ended up stuck like a turtle on his back. Had to help him get up after I stopped laughing. Still laughing today.