hey everyone

[drakekiller08]

i was thinking about my first duck i had ever shot, i was 14 years old and i was with my grandpa. my grandpa passed away last night after battling cancer for two years. i want to hear some of your stories of that first duck. i will never forget mine.

[Kelly Rees]

Thoughts and prayers brother.

I honestly cant remember much of my first duck. I know it was a coot and I shot it on a fishing pond with my .410.

[JPS_Flock]

Sorry to hear about your loss.

I to can remember my first duck like it was yesterday. Shot it in a swamp off of French Creek with my dads old 12 ga mossberg 500 he got it mounted for me, it was a woodie by the way.

[philly]

sorry about your grendpa bro



i can't remember my 1st duck but i do remember my 1st hunt . it's was with my dad . that day we went to clear lake and put the boat in the reeds and had lots of fun we got 3 greenheads . thanks for helping all of us think of the past good times


sorry agen bro

[mndiverwacker]

i was 12, it was a damp day and spitting some sleet the divers were everywere. a flock of 4 or so come by nice and low and i wacked a hen buffie on my first shot.

[Silver Webfoot]

I was 11 on my first duck hunt with a gun and a mallard hen come swimming right into the decoys so I shot her,then right after that a drake come flying by and my dad called him right in and landed him for me so I could shoot it.

[SGTSLTR]

Sorry to hear about your loss. The wife lost her Aunt a month ago to pancreace cancer, she battled that for 17 months.

My first hunt was memorable. 13 yrs old, went with a friend and his dad. Set up along a small pond on the edge of a small wooded area. Sat down next to a fallen tree, and had 5 woodies come in, and 5 woodies stayed. First bird I ever dropped, was when the next flock of 3 Mallards came in, and 1 left, the other two guys were chasin the dog down :lol: Not bad for 13 yrs old?

[nor'east honker hunter]

sorry about your grandpa man, lost mine this year too.

my first duck was when i was 12 not that hard to remember it was only 5 years ago i was with my dad and my unkle i had shot at two ducks befor him and missed so my cnfidence was low but then a drake mallerd cupped down and just befor he landed i roasted him since then iv been hooked.

my prayers are with you man

[Max4hdmatt]

sorry to hear about than man good luck

wasnt that hard to remember it was only 5 years ago but i was 9 years old and i was using my dads remington 870 pump and it was rela windy on the river n some decoys got blown away so my dad n friends dad went n chased them down with the boat we went with them to watch next thing u know 4 geese are coming down the river about 600 yards away already locked up so me n my friend ran to the blind n by that time they had turned away so i started calling n they turned n in they came being it was me a 9 years old n my friend at 8 i called the shot being as i was a little older n we shot at 4 geese and 4 geese stayed i shot 2 and he shot 2 we were so happy was the best day of my life ever since then i have been hooked n unfortunetly i have never shot or even shot at a duck but the 06-07 season i will be doing some duck hunting around the area so hopefully ill get my first duck there

[SMOKE]

Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family man.

edit: I lost my dad when i was 14 to cancer as well. my mom is a 2 year breast cancer survivor.


Got my first duck this year. Dropped a teal durin teal season. I shot and the bird dropped and none of my buddies had even shot yet. i kinda sat there for a second goin holy crap i just killed that then realized there were more get back to shootin. We all ended up with limits that afternoon. :D

[Max4Gooser]

Don't remember my first duck, but definately remember my first goose, it was 22 years ago, my first waterfowl hunt down on Rend Lake with my father and a good friend of the family, I was using a borrowed 23/4' wingmaster, since I didn't have my own 12 yet only a 20 and we couldn't find steel for it then. Not long after shooting hours we had a suicidal single, come wing into the decoys, and they said take it to me, so I stood up and shot dropping it. I was so excited about my first goose, and it got better, when we retrieved it, it was wearing ***lery.

Sorry to hear about your grandpa, I used to hunt with mine a lot started at age 5 upland hunting with him, he passed from cancer when I was 14, miss him everyday.

[Killer Miller]

I shot my first duck when I was 11 years old with my Rem. 870 20 gauge. My dad took me during youth season in Illinois. A big flock of bluewings came in (30 birds) and after missing my first shot, I somehow caught up with one of the skyrocketing birds and folded it.

[SMOKE]

Just found out today my grandpa has inoperable lung cancer.... :(

[migrator00]

Sorry to hear that Steve...that's just not right. Thoughts and prayers brother.........

[Mark Spence]

My thoughts and prayer go out to you guys....

My first duck was a woody - about 4 years ago. It was also Raven's, my oldest lab, first retrieve. I was sitting on the edge of the lake and had tried and tried to work the couple mallards that I had seen...but obviously to no avail. Another half-0hour goes by and all I can hear is this squealing sound...my first thought - WOODY. I am looking all over the place for this birds and then - HELLO - he's 20 yards out and 5 feet off the water coming directly at me at MACH 5...I pulled up - put the bead on his bill and pummeled him. I blew his bill right off his face...it wasn't pretty. As soon as that bird made the splash in the water...Raven darted out picked up the bird and brought it to me. I couldn't have been a happier camper that day!!!!

As you can tell...I wasn't much of duck hunter...boy have things changed!!!! :lol:

[kingkilla]

my first duck that i shot was a teal. i shot it with a browning BPS, at saylorville. i think i was 14 or 15.

[wingslocked]

Clear day no wind and 3 greenwing teal came into the decoys. Since it would have been my first duck the guy I was hunting with gave me the ok so I jumped up yelled at them so they would get up and unloaded the gun got 2 out of the 3 will never forget it. Gotta love them memories

[Max4Gooser]

Just found out today my grandpa has inoperable lung cancer.... :(

Sorry to hear that Smoke, take the time you have with him to make some more memories. Prayers with you and your family.

[duxbutt]

keep doing what your doing and remember the good times.

my first duck was when I was 14, a couple of my dads buddies , dad and I jumped a nebraska pot hole up north. I had not got a duck yet so they let me shoot first. I got a Mallard drake and a GWT drake in the 3 shots. I wanted to get the GWT mounted but dad told me that I had spent my fun money on my new 870 wingmaster 20ga. still remember that day. cold and Rainy. we got a total of 14 ducks that day. We blind hunted in the mornign and then jumped that pond on the way home. FUN FUN FUN

[migrator00]

My first duck came some 12 years ago at Diamond Island in Calhoun, co. Illinois. I shot a wood duck drake w/ my wingmaster 20 ga. behind the blind. My dad was right there for the whole show! He's since hung up the duck call...but we make memories in the deer woods!! Gotta get him back for that 155 in 14 pt. from last season :twisted:

[Jayson Wilt]

I am very sorry to hear about your lost brother, cancer is a horrible thing that has taken members of my family as well. I still have to watch my father struggle back and forth with his colon cancer.

As far as my first duck it was nice drake widgeon on my uncles dairy farm. But I would rather tell you about my sons first goose. It happened last week. He is only five and he isnt shooting just yet. But he called in a loner all by himself with a few honks and clucks right into me the other day. I knocked the bird down and he sprung out of his finisher blind. I had to finsh the bird so I kneeled down got a bead and left him touch the trigger off. It ment more to me than any hunting or life expeirnce so far in my 31 years.

God bless you brother our thoughts and prayers are with you...

[takem]

sorry to hear about your lost, i know how you feel, my grandfather just passed away on 12/28 from cancer.

my first duck was with my older brother and ofcourse my dad, i was 8 and it was a drake woodie, shot it with a single shot shotgun on a wooded pond that my dad had to carry me over 2 water passes to get to because i was to small for waders plus the water was to deep even if i had waders