Dad's 1st duck hunt
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 8:09 am
This weekend i took my dad on his first duck hunt. We had a really good time. Friday morning it was cloudy so the ducks flew well. We had ducks landing in the spread while I was putting out decoys 15 minutes before shooting light. At shooting time I told dad to shoot a duck sitting on the water directly in front of him. He pulled the trigger and I told him he had just been "christened" by shooting his first bootlip hen. 
After that I tried to lay off the big lipped ones but 2 more fell in the early light. If it weren't for my poor decoy placement and a couple misses we would have been done in 30 minutes. I had to make an adjustment because the ducks were coming in about 20 yards wide. After the adjustment we finished by 7:30 with the early bootlips, a teal, 2 mallards, and the rest gadwall. That afternoon we managed a bonus by killing 3 specks. I thought that hunt may have ruined him thinking it was too easy but the next morning he got a dose of reality as we only killed 1 duck the entire day. He got to experience both ends of the spectrum in 2 hunts. He had a ball though and is ready to go back. 
After that I tried to lay off the big lipped ones but 2 more fell in the early light. If it weren't for my poor decoy placement and a couple misses we would have been done in 30 minutes. I had to make an adjustment because the ducks were coming in about 20 yards wide. After the adjustment we finished by 7:30 with the early bootlips, a teal, 2 mallards, and the rest gadwall. That afternoon we managed a bonus by killing 3 specks. I thought that hunt may have ruined him thinking it was too easy but the next morning he got a dose of reality as we only killed 1 duck the entire day. He got to experience both ends of the spectrum in 2 hunts. He had a ball though and is ready to go back. 
