Thread: Who's excited?

Duck shooting was an entry to hunting for me as a young fella, my old man wasn't a hunter but my Grandad was a very keen duck shooter, this time every year I would sleep over at there place in preparation for opening, he would wake me up by flicking the light switch on and off, always smiling when he did it, it was always home made vegetable soup and toast for breakfast, then to make the flasks, nanna of coarse had packed our lunch boxes the night before, always consisted of home baking and sweet a sandwich witch was usually toung, we would get black pudding if we were lucky.
Great memory's those were, him and I sitting side by side then up and into the mob, as time went on he bacame slower and slower at getting up for the shot, he would be frozen but not complain. His back would let him down when we were cleaning the ducks up but he would tough it out, all those years as a bushman on the coast had made him hard.

It is a great sport for the older generation who struggle to hunt bigger game animals, it defiantly has a soft spot for me.
And to be honest I am rather offended at someone stereotypeing duck hunters like has been done in this thread.
I don't do a lot of it these days, the lagoon is only a couple of hundred meters from my place and has a healthy population of ducks geese and swans, I still get excited when I see them from the quad on the beach. Maybe this year I will get back into it after opening day


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