On The Hunt With My Bulova Mil-Ships.

Gooday and Welcome.

All packed and ready to go. We loaded up the truck and headed down south. Headed to El Campo Tx, the fly way. What's in El Campo you ask? Lots and lots of birds. Snows, Speckles, Canadians, Black snows, Pintails, Cranes, and many many more. We had thousands of birds in the air. But birds are smart. They can see you from a mile away. With such great site I knew they would be hard to call in with 6 hunters.

We started off the first day with a 0300 wake up, fallowed by an hour long drive to the nearest bucees. From there straight to the soon to be spread of decs. We spent the next hour and a half setting up a couple hundred snow decoys and about 20 or so crane decoys. It was slop, I felt like a WW1 soldier wading in the trenches. This was my first time in rice fields.

After slopping around and setting the decoys it was about 20 min until shooting light. We settled into our pop up blinds in the slop and prepared for the birds. Opens box of shells, Check the time. The bubble glass on this watch is insane, Its so easy to read. This archive series watch was putting in some work.

Fully bead blasted case and crown. This is a tool watch for the tool watch guys. No date and cheap thrills, my watches are slowly starting to look the same. I have a soft spot for the basic tool watch offerings. Time, dive bezel, lume. Those are the holy trinity for watch selection for me.

Does it tell the time well? Yes, although the lume is quite disappointing. For the $800 MSRP I feel like the lume is an extremely unforgivable con. Its a dive watch for christs sake. Keep a light on your belt if you are diving in low vis, youll need it to constantly charge your lume.

Dive bezel, Yea its got one. Probably one of my favorite bezels iv had the pleasure of fondling. Bulova gets a B grade for the bezel. I feel like they kind of half assed it. The bezel has a tiny lume pit but it does not work well. The numbers are printed on the bezel, this is over all a cheap feel for the watch which is a big let down for a very close to a thousand dollar watch.

Lume is where they failed completely. Its quite sad that this dive watch would be absolutely useless in low vis scenarios. There are field watches in the $100 dollar world that absolutely destroy the Mil-Ships lume. I digress.

Now off of my "Holy Trinity" test the Bulova Mil-Ships scores 75/100. I would not recommend paying MSRP for this watch. Shop around, you should be able to find one brand new for a couple hundred lower than MSRP.

This watch however does get the x Factor points for me. The glass on this thing is so freaking cool. I don't own another watch like it, there for it shall live in my collection. For now.

No shots fired the first morning, time to pick up all those decoys we just put out. Day 2 we tried a different blind. Getting lucky as the weather seemed to have a mind of its own. Hot, Cold, Hot, Cold. Flip flopping back and fourth. Texas weather is the most annoying thing in the world. The birds are just as confused as we are.

We got lucky though on the morning of day two and harvested two Sand Hill Cranes, The ribeye in the sky. Those two along with five or six doves would be the harvest for this late dove and duck/goose/crane hunt.

I had a blast, as i got to spend time with some family members whom I hadn't seen in over 25 years. Lots of laughs around the fire pit while sipping whiskey. I was thankful for the company, and the time we spent.

Remember guys, Time is precious. Memento Mori.

T E M P U S M O R T I S

Justin N