Duck Buster
10-03-2010, 12:45 PM
Yesterday Feild Marshal and myself had the pleasure of taking 4 youngsters and one other parent out for a Heritage day goose shoot. We had scouted the feild a couple of days befor and seen great goose movement in the area so our hopes were high for a tremendous day. Well the day started well with some birds moving just outside the dekes just after shooting light. We determined that the birds were a little too far for the kids to make good shots on so we let them go.
After that the action was slower than what we were hoping for but we did manage to call in 4 or 5 groups of Canada's and had a hoot playing with 50-75 Speckle Bellie Geese that really wanted into our feild. We were even fortunate enough to bring one small group of the specks in for the kids to shoot at and they were rewarded with 2 nice birds.
Over all the day was a huge success, everyone had a good time. The kids got a chance to shoot all on their own and show what they could do. the adults had fun mentoring the kids and chucking a little s**t their way when there shooting was not as great as it could have been, but most importantly we helped instill a love of the hunt in these young minds which will keep our sport going for generations to come.
Thank you to all involved in yesterdays hunt, and to everyone else take a kid out hunting, it is well worth the rewards.......
After that the action was slower than what we were hoping for but we did manage to call in 4 or 5 groups of Canada's and had a hoot playing with 50-75 Speckle Bellie Geese that really wanted into our feild. We were even fortunate enough to bring one small group of the specks in for the kids to shoot at and they were rewarded with 2 nice birds.
Over all the day was a huge success, everyone had a good time. The kids got a chance to shoot all on their own and show what they could do. the adults had fun mentoring the kids and chucking a little s**t their way when there shooting was not as great as it could have been, but most importantly we helped instill a love of the hunt in these young minds which will keep our sport going for generations to come.
Thank you to all involved in yesterdays hunt, and to everyone else take a kid out hunting, it is well worth the rewards.......