The Waterfowl Heritage Days held last weekend were a lot of fun for our participants.
We had 2 Jr. trapshooters from our Pitt Meadows Gunclub (Matteo and Chase) as well as a member of Ridgedale Gunclub (Atticus). Atticus and Chase hunted with me saturday and we had a great time, it's a big bonus to bring along hunters who have lots of shooting experience and can handle a gun! We shot our limit of ducks and they each dropped a goose. Lots of interesting birds harvested too. Chase was on his first duck hunt and bagged his first mallard, pintail, Green Wing Teal and goose. Atticus was on his second Heritage days and bagged a mallard, goose, pintail, Green Wing Teal and a Blue Wing Teal! This is only the 3rd BWT I've seen harvested in BC in 50 years of hunting waterfowl! Pretty cool day!
Matteo and Chase came out sunday with Chris and I. It was Matteo's 5th Heritage Days hunt and his last as he'll be 18 next year. The boys dropped a limit of mallards and 5 geese. Great shooting again by both boys, Matteo made a nice double on geese!
All in all a great weekend, and hopefully not our last Heritage Day Youth hunt. I hear the Gov't are planning to change the format for next year but I'm not sure how it will work.
There were more birds around than I had thought and I'm a lot more excited about this coming weekend's opener. Hope you enjoy the pictures, add some from your Heritage day if you were out!
Day 1