Hunted Sabine every Sat,Sun, and Wed back in the late 80's and early 90's. We actually walked in on the east side. Used to be a big pond and several pot holes. We hammered them for 3 +/- years. People around us thought it was the spot we were in and started getting there earlier and setting up so that has been going on forever. The problem was - it wasn't the spot as much as it was the set up and everything else. Then we got sick of it and said we would get there first everytime. We were in playing shape back then and we had about 1/2-3/4 mile walk through marsh grass and another 1/4 mile walk through a pond. I think back then you could enter refuge 2 hrs before shooting time. We were parking and crossing the fence at the 2 hr mark. 1 of us would carry the 2 bags of decoys and his gun. The other one only carried his gun. We got our prime time pick of the litter everytime, but even 20-25 years ago, people were still disrespectful - maybe just clueless or both, but they would come and set up 200 yards from us and sky bust. Not much of anything more aggravating than working some birds and then have a couple of idiots try and shoot them from 70 yards while you are working them and they are circling your decoys. It got to be a miserable. I've never been back. Back then Sabine was unbelievable. If I remember correctly, the warden told us several time that the average birds per hunter was just short of a limit and that included the idiots and rookies.
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