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Friday, June 19, 2009

Water Marks at Furin Property

Set primarily to the south, we are presented with two converging birds on a pretty piece of water, with a flyer well to the right out of the test shot on land. First, out at 260 yards on the left is a station with three people that shoots once and throws a dead drake mallard flat to the right at the edge of the far end of the pond with a bit of splash. This station then retires into a well-brushed holding blind. The actual line to this mark is into the pond, over the left edge of an island, back into the water, over a point protruding left from a peninsula coming into the pond from the far bank, back into the water to the bird. Next, a boat bird that sits out in the right portion of the pond throws a hen mallard to the left at a distance of 225 yards; the bird lands in the water amongst some cattails at the edge of this same peninsula (just described). The line is into the water and to the right of the aforementioned small island on out to the right of the peninsula. Several decoys bob in the water en route to this bird and the boat. To wrap up the test, a hen mallard flyer is positioned well out of the test to the right on land and is shot out of the test, landing 155 yards away from the line.

The running line is a good hundred yards from the edge of the pond. 

Currently the test is being set up and tweaked.      


 


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