After my first post you know that I love duck hunting. Taking a boat ride at 430 am does not sound fun to most. Nor does sitting in the rain, sleet or snow for hours waiting to shoot a duck doesn’t appeal to most. Breaking ice before shooting light for 3 hours to make a hole in the iced over ponds waiting for shooting light doesn’t appeal to many people. Duck hunters live for the freezing cold, sleet, snow and terrible weather just to wait for the ducks. November to January is the only time duck hunters reveal their craziness. Boat rides and trips out of town to Arkansas or Canada just in pursuit of the waterfowl they love. Chasing the many species of waterfowl all round the country seems crazy to most. But the reward of shooting ducks outweighs the cold, miserable, and awful weather that we all experience. Yes duck hunters a little loopy in the head, just chasing their preferred species.
Most people look at camouflage and think what rednecks, white trash, and just strange. The various looks that you receive wearing camouflage is hilarious, people perceive you as not as intelligent or dumb, which is great fun. Many hunters might be rednecks, but for the most part duck hunters aren’t in general rednecks or white trash at all. Even other hunters judge a duck hunter. Calling them the rich hunters or even not hunters at all. Which is fine by the duck hunters, they honestly don’t want to run into hardcore deer hunters at the boat ramp trying to find a hole to attempt shooting at a duck.
What really attracts me to duck hunting is seeing the rising of the sun over the treetops. Hearing the sounds of another cold January morning wake up is something that everyone needs to experience. Not only do you get to hear the world wake up, there is a peaceful beginning to your day. Then around 6 your decoys are set and boat is in position to wait for the morning flight. Then you feel it your heart races and adrenaline starts to pump, the ducks are up. There is nothing like hearing the whistling wings of wood ducks in the swamp or flying through the river. Just hearing to the ducks whistle through the cypress trees and drop feet down into your decoys is a special experience. The shot gunning is just a bonus, being out there experiencing the sights, sounds, and over all experience of water fowling is great.
With all that being said who wouldn’t want to start duck hunting. Its not all about shooting ducks and hanging around the boat after a great hunt. It’s a great experience and heritage for more many people. Duck hunting has been in my family for years and I plan on keeping it in the family for years to come. Its something that I enjoy and look forward to every year. We spend all year gearing up and talking about spots we would like to hunt, but like I said it not everything about duck hunting. I have seen many things from hunting that I would have missed if I wouldn’t hunt. The memories that I have and the pictures that I have taken with friends and family make me who I am today. And I have the whistling wings to thank for that.
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You know Rob, many girls might find all this duck hunting talk boring, but me not so much!! I have a respect for those who do it because of the simply fact of getting out of a warm bed to head out to not so good conditions. However, it makes me relieve how in fact we should all just understand each other, women and men I mean. See Rob you can go out at 430 in the morning to shot a duck. And I can go out at 430 on Black Friday to buy the perfect dress. It's simple women and men both have things in life that they can appreciate more than others can even begin to comprehend! As for me, if its the perfect fit, perfect price it makes me feel beautiful..I in fact are there at a store no matter what!!!! SO next time MEN or you want to make some comment about womens shopping habits remember my compairson and just smile!!! HA
ReplyDeleteWell I too enjoy the sport...that feeling is hard to put into words (although you did a great job). But, no one can understand the experience unless they hunt themselves. I have had the best talks with my Daddy and fellowship with my hunting buddies while freezing in a blind watching my fingers begin to show signs of frost bite.
ReplyDeleteRob, until they watch the sun rise and set through a wall of cat tails and dead pompus grass and slowly become buried in a sea of shotgun shells, they will never understand the pure enjoyment us hunters get out of the experience. Although some days are better than others I know you will agree that we never walk away disappointed.
"We Do it for the Ducks"
Rob- I had no idea what duck hunting is about. I have been deer hunting but still don't understand either. I would love to get involved in duck hunting because of the way you have described it. I think the most attractive thing you have described is the time with your family and friends that you get when duck hunting. Coming from the south and the country, I never think "dumb" when I see camo, but love to hear other people talk about it and be proven wrong. Go ahead and keep doing that!
ReplyDeleteMy neighbor growing up was a big duck hunter and I would always see him and his friends towing the boat away and never knew what it was all about. I am glad I now know it sounds like it would be a blast. As far as the camo thing, I came from an area where if you did not wear camo you were in the minority. I think that people just jump to conclusions before they even give certain things a chance.
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