Hunting at its best

I have seen many hunting shows where everyone shoots their limit in just minutes and I have read blogs where someone shot so many shells that their barrel warped (maybe that is an exaggeration, huh Jeremy?). Well the boys and I were ready for one of those last weekend. We got up at 5:00 because where we like to hunt ducks just a few miles from home is on public ground and is very popular. We arrived around 5:30 and instantly started setting our "spread". We have duck decoys, geese decoys, a "lucky duck" that moves its wings - all just ready to bring the birds in to us. When we got back on land we had to get all set up. Because of the popularity of the "hotspot" a lot of the vegetation has been trampled down but that is no problem because I have a piece of camouflage material that we just put up between trees to hide behind.
Ah yes, we are finally all set - now we just have to wait. Towards the back of our area is a tree that we place our blind bags beside, hang our gun cases on and just congregate by. We opened our blind bags to get out our coffee cups, thermoses and with pride of our progress started talking about all of life's issues.
Then suddenly it happened. A large flock of ducks started coming our way. They circled, then set their wings and landed in our spread of decoys. We all looked at each other and realized that none of us had taken our guns out of their cases - let alone loaded them! We also knew that once we moved or made any noise we would be "busted". MENTAL NOTE - ALWAYS LOAD YOUR GUNS BEFORE POURING COFFEE!!!!!