Cafeoutdoors.com: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories...

Funny chit rite here,,,I took rocks to Thompson Bro's in Brookfield this am and was to load beans in Sumner,,,6 of us,,thier augers were broke and I spent 3 hours there waiting to get loaded, needles to say I couldn't get to St. Louis and get unloaded,,,,but I spent bout and hour with a couple of the other guys, just wandering around and telling old stories that they had never heard. So it really wasn't a wasted day, I enjoyed it.
I gots all kinds of stories on the K blinds,,,killed my first goose out of K-10 with grandpa, my uncle and a friend of mine,,,I had a res. and Dad had to work,,,,nother time in K-10 colder than a well diggers azz I had a res and we got to the parking lot and Dad had forgot his cold weather clothes,,,just had and old Field and Stream green canvas hunting coat,,,I thought he would freeze out,,but he hung on long enuff to kill our 4,,,wasn't real hard to do that close to the resevation area. Nother time Dad took the lil sis and they drew K-2 Dad took a charcoal bucket to keep her warm and heat some doughnuts for her,,,it warmed up and he dumped it behind the pit,,,caught the dayum grass on fire and liked to burned the whole thing off to the ground

Nother day in K-6 up on the hill after they had closed Honker season,,,Dad and a friend of ours had shot limits of dux at T. Hill early and we drove to the grove riding around,,,,looking down in the bottom it was LOADED with white geese,,,went to headquarters and Jimmy said there was no one in the pits,,tell me where ya wanna go,,,,,,K-6,,,we ran into Brookfield and bought ROLLS of paper towels,,,we turned that patch of wheat white,,,when they came up that hill ALL of em bout 25 yds rite over head,,,,,7 shots 9 geese,,,they were both shooting stack tubes and both doubled. I killed my first Mallard drake out of E-6,,,,E-7 I watched a goose slide thru the decoys and we laffed so hard we never got a shot,,,it was iced in The ole man took a big ol roll of plastic and blue and green food coloring,,,we put the plastic down and colored it up,,, then set decoys on it,,,E-7 was a timber hole for the most part what that lone goose was doin there I ain't gotta clue,,,,but he come in with landing gear down,,backpeddlin and hit that chit and scattered decoys all over the dang place,,,priceless,,,,,I got some stories about T. Hill that still crack me up

The nite we left the blind in a 10' jon and he sunk it on purpose,,,,with 4 of the guys he worked with in it and thier guns,,,,,shallow water you could wade it in hip boots,,,ya gotta hear that whole story someday. Years later I took the boy and nephew and ex bil up a couple years to teal hunt there........Yep I remeber the day you could take yer dawg inside,,,Val stayed in the NW corner on Dad's coat,,,,the poor line, that caused us to get up or leave home Way to early,,,take turns standin in line to keep yer spot while somebody else fired up the coleman and fixed breakfeast,,,,The soup machine,,,fer a quarter you could get a warm can of Dinty Moore beef stew for breakfeast,,,,frozen egg sandwiches for lunch that you had made the nite before,,but they'd freeze before ya got around to eatin em.,,,,,Takin a nap on top of the blind during the middle of the day when the sun was shining only to be busted but a flock of GW's,,,,throwing somebody's hat in the air and pokin holes in it

Bustin ice goin out and comin in..
The G blinds 8 9 10 duck AND geese killin mofo's in the day.....Wow what a memory overload.... It will never be the same,,,,but it can't be forgotten,,,,,Thanx Scott bout every year I think about it some,,,,kinda different today tho....

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