Most of the guys that came were from Florida, They had never been hunting with a shotgun, and had never seen snow. Temps were about 5 above zero, and about 10 inches of fresh snow.
They had a lot of gun problems, their automatics and pumps did not work well, but even then, they must have each fired about 3 boxes of shells. They figure that they must have seen about 1000 pheasants the first day.
One of the guys was a commerical and charter fisherman from Clearwater Florida, his web site is (T-Kat.com). Tom brought a bushel of fresh crab legs, we stood around the fire ring outside the house, cracking and dipping crab in hot butter, when it was about zero outside. If you set your beer down for more that just a few seconds, it started to freeze. Did you know that commercial crab fisherman catch the crabs, just cut off the claws, and throw the crab back, and it grows a new set of claws. I brought about a dozen back for Terri, she really liked them. Tom is available for a charter almost any time, depending on the season, check out his website. Phil, how far is Clearwater from you?
Looking forward to seeing some of you in January.
Gary
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