Not many hunts for me this year . . . but you've got be pretty darn thankful for the ones you get.
There were a few woodies from what I call the "wood duck season," the short five day season in October. A hunt with some family friends near the Cape Fear wound up bird-less . . . and the same result for several other hunts.
Towards the end of the season, though, my buddy Cas Prewitt had a spot in the blind up in Tyrell County. Up I went, from Wilmington. Too, it was great to see Clyde Firman and Andy Clements, two men who made hunting possible up at boarding school at Woodberry Forest---one of the few schools I know of where you can bring a shotgun to school and hunt on campus.
And, finally, that weekend in Tyrell County, there were a few ducks.