Moose's Report - Cambridge-Elk River-Foley-Milaca-Mora-Ogilvie Fishing Reports

[leech~~]

12 minutes ago, gimruis said:

 Too many things to go wrong without confirming it ahead of time.

 

 

Yeah, like I said goodthing.

[smurfy]

the kid and I always check our stands prior.......i'll go back to check the conditions of said stands before he gets there to see what we need. while i'm at it if i can i shoot at grouse with shells that appear to not have bb,s in them!!!!

[monstermoose78]

No deer seen by my group but we taking care of grouse. We had grouse for lunch for da vikes game. I have got 9 birds, my dad has 5, my cousins have 3 and 1. I am going to the stand in the morning then grouse hunting until dark unless I get my before dark.

[leech~~]

14 minutes ago, monstermoose78 said:

No deer seen by my group but we taking care of grouse. We had grouse for lunch for da vikes game. I have got 9 birds, my dad has 5, my cousins have 3 and 1. I am going to the stand in the morning then grouse hunting until dark unless I get my before dark.

 

Nice, do you guys ever get any Woodcock up there a long the shore?  

[monstermoose78]

23 hours ago, leech~~ said:

Nice, do you guys ever get any Woodcock up there a long the shore?  

In October but I used get more of them in Ely.

[gimruis]

I saw 52 deer in 6.5 days of hunting last week in zone 225 northeast of Princeton.  Its by far the most deer I've seen in a season, by more than double.  16 of those deer were bucks.  Unfortunately, 15 of those bucks were dinks being 6 pointers or smaller.  I only saw one sizable buck that appeared to be a big 8 or 10 pointer briefly as it was bounding through brush/timber behind me, and it did not present a shot.  I saw several mature does with triplet fawns.  I did fill a bonus antlerless tag with a plump corn fed doe on opening morning for the freezer.

 

I also saw about 60 wild turkeys and too many pheasants to count.  Its obvious to me that the wildlife is flourishing like I've never seen before.  I've hunted Central MN for 25-30 years and its never been like this on all fronts with the wildlife.  One morning I thought a flock of about 40 mallards landed on the field and as it got brighter, I realized they were all pheasants, not ducks.

 

I think it had to be the fake winter we had.  There's no other explanation for the explosion in wildlife.

 

 

[monstermoose78]

Flushed 3 pheasants today with Hazel but they were flushing 50 yards a head of her. Then we went by some little berries that looked black and hazels tail started going a brown bird gets up I thought hen then the bird banked and it was a grouse. It was good to get her out in the woods. I seen a few pheasants in picked corn fields. 

[leech~~]

3 hours ago, monstermoose78 said:

Flushed 3 pheasants today with Hazel but they were flushing 50 yards a head of her. Then we went by some little berries that looked black and hazels tail started going a brown bird gets up I thought hen then the bird banked and it was a grouse. It was good to get her out in the woods. I seen a few pheasants in picked corn fields. 

Always a good day out of the house.  Hey moose, what kind of gun do you have a few grouse pictures back?  

[monstermoose78]

3 hours ago, leech~~ said:

Always a good day out of the house.  Hey moose, what kind of gun do you have a few grouse pictures back?  

Stoeger M3000 

[leech~~]

1 minute ago, monstermoose78 said:

Stoeger M3000 

Thanks, never had an Auto.  Kind of looking.  

[monstermoose78]

17 minutes ago, leech~~ said:

Thanks, never had an Auto.  Kind of looking.  

I really like it. I do like the gas operated semis as they reduce recoil 

[Wanderer]

7 hours ago, monstermoose78 said:

I really like it. I do like the gas operated semis as they reduce recoil 

On waterfowling pages that Stoeger M3000 gets mentioned a lot.  The Cerakote finish is sweet too.

[monstermoose78]

4 hours ago, Wanderer said:

On waterfowling pages that Stoeger M3000 gets mentioned a lot.  The Cerakote finish is sweet too.

It’s been a good shotgun 

[leech~~]

4 hours ago, Wanderer said:

On waterfowling pages that Stoeger M3000 gets mentioned a lot.  The Cerakote finish is sweet too.

She is pretty, but reading some reviews, jamming in colder weather seems to come up a lot?  

[monstermoose78]

2 hours ago, leech~~ said:

She is pretty, but reading some reviews, jamming in colder weather seems to come up a lot?  

With any semi automatic it’s keeping them cleaned 

[monstermoose78]

I have never had any issues with it. 

[Kettle]

3 hours ago, monstermoose78 said:

With any semi automatic it’s keeping them cleaned 

I used to run an auto and this is the truest statement. I also realized the importance of good cleaner and lube. The cheap stuff really holds dirt. A well cleaned gas gun can operate sub zero Temps. Even an interia driven auto dirty with bad lubricants can fail at 70 degrees. 

[Wanderer]

19 hours ago, leech~~ said:

She is pretty, but reading some reviews, jamming in colder weather seems to come up a lot?  

Not to worry iffen you don’t go out in the cold!  Nyuk nyuk….

 

Complaints seemed to come from young guys that never cleaned their guns and ran cases of shells through em.  I know of a couple Brownings and Bennellis that have done the same. 
 

Sometime new, out of the box guns will jam cuz there’s still cozmolene in the action from the factory.  One buddy of mine had to scrape his Benelli out with a screw driver to get it cycle properly.

[gimruis]

I went pheasant hunting for the first time this season on Friday.  Started at 11am, and finished by 11:43 at the first spot.  Raised 13, 5 of which were roosters.  They were all getting up close and dumb.  The entire countryside is a complete mudhole.  Sticky, thick, wet mud and standing water in all the ditches and low lying areas.  I'm looking forward to all of this hardening up good with colder weather soon.

 

I use a Benelli that's inertia-driven.  Far less debris for cleaner operation than shooting a gas operated autoloader.

 

 

 

 

[Wanderer]

In another week, that could be 3 I believe?

[leech~~]

14 hours ago, Wanderer said:

Not to worry iffen you don’t go out in the cold!  Nyuk nyuk….

 

Complaints seemed to come from young guys that never cleaned their guns and ran cases of shells through em.  I know of a couple Brownings and Bennellis that have done the same. 
 

Sometime new, out of the box guns will jam cuz there’s still cozmolene in the action from the factory.  One buddy of mine had to scrape his Benelli out with a screw driver to get it cycle properly.

This " guns will jam cuz there’s still cozmolene in the action from the factory"  is one of the reviews I read the most of.  

[gimruis]

12 hours ago, Wanderer said:

In another week, that could be 3 I believe?

 

Yes, starting Dec 1 the bag limit goes to 3.

[gimruis]

I went on Wed early afternoon and got a couple more dumb ones at the first spot.  Everything has hardened up good now so its much easier walking than the mudhole last time.  Low lying areas with water had enough ice to hold the dog, but not me.  There's a lot of birds out there.  Maybe the most I've seen since I've had this dog, and she is 12 years old.