It's September 23rd, 1998, and hoards of those little blue-wings "buzz" overhead in the pre-dawn dark along with about a billion mosquitoes. Another teal season has finally shown up to end the summer's long wait. It's the 1st one to arrive in south-central Texas, and we hurried down the levee toward a familiar spot.

Whether it be an accessible blind or just some spot set up where a lot of birds have been holding, what matters most is that "it's that time of year again."

It doesn't take long to put a full limit on the strap.

Below - A temporary pond that I rode to on the back end of a 4-wheeler. It's tires churned trough the chocolate mud and water on it's way to where a wooden palate had been placed in the weeds to keep my chair above the water level.

Above- This is a stationary blind dug into the outside levee of a 2 acre pond that we hunt every year.

It is perfect because we can drive right up to it when it isn't too wet.

Teal hunting can be the easiest hunt to pull off in a chair for a number of reasons: You don't have to be hidden that well to get the ducks to come in close; The season is in September which is always nice and warm (most disabled hunters have trouble hunting in cold climates because of thermo-regulation); Most places are easy to get to and you can hunt a bunch of people in one spot if you have to.

On most opening days, when dawn cracks the teal are alreay working. Dipping and diving, left and right, ducks trade by in the dim sky. As quickly as you can load your gun there are teal either landing in the decoys or zippin' by overhead. Shots ring out in the distance and rumble out across the prairie, announcing the start of another cycle. Fall is in the air. Life begins anew for those poor souls who have been waiting for any reason to get out.

"In seconds, I zeroed in on the 2ndr group and put my bead in front of the lead bird and squeezed. The teal crumpled and fell back to the water. It won't be long before everybody has a limit of four apiece. What a cool, warm & humid morning."