First day duck hunting

[thegatman]

First time duck hunting. One shot.http://castboolits.gunloads.com/imagehosting/thum_1009150a04ab1f2180.jpg (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=7427)http://castboolits.gunloads.com/imagehosting/thum_1009150a04e252d0ee.jpg (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=7428)

[tomme boy]

Sweet! Awesome looking lab! Is it your very first duck? Or just the first of the season?

[starmac]

If that is your first shot at a duck, you done good.
Hope you get many more, but if you want to keep your average up you will have to quit now. lol

Good shootin.

[runfiverun]

i still remember my first duck.
first shot i ever took hunting.

can't hunt there anymore.... gotta love progress. :[

[Olevern]

Called in over decoys? Who did the calling? What shotgun. Inquiring minds want to know.

Good job, no matter the circumstances. Wishing you many more successful hunts.

Olevern

[MT Gianni]

He looks happy but the lab is just thinking "I done my job, lets do it again".

[Fishman]

Looks like a widgeon to me. Duck hunting is a lot of fun, wish I could do more.

[thegatman]

First time he used a 12 guage Beretta 390 and Kent Faststeel. No decoys needed in the small flooded timber. One of the last woodies of the season. Dog is named Rudy and he just turned 1 years old. Last year we took him goose hunting and he didn't get a shot. [smilie=s:

[tomme boy]

Man that Lab is a moose for one year old!

[bruce drake]

Great job with the boy! Keep him in your sights and with future hunts and I'm sure that boy will be a testament to your time invested!

Now we need a post on his first roasted duck dinner!

Oh and as a fellow Lab owner, great looking pup as well.

(Priorities are to the boy of course)

Bruce

[cabezaverde]

Man that Lab is a moose for one year old!

That dog is a moose if it was four years old. And I know these guys, thegatman is doing right by that kid.

[thegatman]

Thanks for all the replies. We are going to try the boy on the big honkers this coming week. Last year he never got a shot. We hope the dog is not goose shy cause as a pup he tangled with a big honker. I think they will both do good. I will keep you all posted.

[292]

They got a limit of 3 wooducks each. My son is the second from the left.

[bruce drake]

good thing you mentioned 2nd from the left or we would have thought you were proud of the Lab! Nice looking dog by the way.

[Lance Boyle]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing that. Brings back my own memories of duck hunting down on the crick.

[skeettx]

My duck canoe with 9.5HP Johnson on stern

http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j452/skeettx/MVC-001S-2.jpg

Mike

[Dean D.]

I always enjoy seeing kids successful on a hunt! That's awesome Thegatman! Keep us posted on the goose hunt.

[WRideout]

First duck is always a thrill. I remember hunting in the sloughs along the Sacramento River, and missing every one of a flock of teal that came over at daybreak.
Wayne

[thegatman]

nice group of successful hunters. Congrats

[thegatman]

High flying geese today. No shots for the boy.

[Pb&j]

At least you folks are getting out there. Have missed the season this year due to work even after all the decoy and boat prepping. Boy I miss the sunrises viewed from a marsh. Good luck on the next hunt!

[**oneshot**]

Kids having success at hunting puts a smile on my face.

Nice shooting!