Who Introduced you to Waterfowling

[kontekontos]

Just wondering who introduced you guys to the great community and sport of waterfowling.

konte

[John Traiforos]

My father introduced me to hunting... but he did not hunt waterfowl. It was something I actually got into myself in a way, because noone I knew did it... Remember being captivated by the migrating waterfowl as I was out with Dad upland game bird hunting... Always fascinated by the different duck species in the potholes come spring time, so many different kinds fully colored... Have been hooked ever since...

[Eric Wolf]

When I was in 6th grade the custodian at my school took me and my brother on the youth waterfowl hunt, wich was the first duck hunt for me and my brother. that day was the worst day for mosquitos in my entire life! oh well, we shot 8 ducks so it was well worth it! We are really good friends with him and we go hunting together a lot. I dont think i will ever forget the mosquitos or the ducks!

[Letmland]

Avery/Lynch Mob Pro-Staffer Curt McNabb took me on my first goose hunt. After shooting geese inside 20 yards, I was hooked and have been doing it ever since.

[goose14]

My dad introduced me to hunting and to waterfowl. Actually someone we new offered to take us goose hunting when I was about 11, we didn't get anything but we saw some and I was hooked ever since. IT'S IN MY BLOOD AND WILL NEVER LEAVE.

[Jeff Kreit]

My father also showed me the great outdoors. Now days i am shoeing my boys want my father showed me. Thanks for the photos Rob
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[Mark "LA CROSS" Hoke]

I started Hunting when I was seven but never carried a firearm until I was eleven growing up in Maryland gave my brother and me many opportunities.

We didn't know how lucky we where to be around so many opportunties waterfowl was one of the greatest one .

Some old Market hunters families really taught me and my brother how to hunt and understand waterfowl . I am surely Thankful for that.

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[Rich Good]

My father and grandfather, back 30 years ago.....Been hooked ever since !!!!

[Craig Boyd]

My dad introduced this great sport of waterfowling when I was around the age of 8. I didn't start hunting with a gun until I was about 12. That is when I fell in love with it.

[Jocelyn "Josh" Léger]

I was introduced to waterfowling by a lifetime friend by the name of Dan Palombo. His father would take us to his hunting camp for some fall weekends, when we were 11-12 years old, been hooked since the beginning and still hunt with him 28 years later ... This is last fall with limits of some nice fat mallards and pintails, and we've been talking about introducing Dan's kids to waterfowling this coming fall ...

I'm on the left, and Dan is the guy in the middle ...
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My grandfather introduced me to fishing and the outdoors, I think he had me sitting beside him in his boat before I could walk ... and he is still alive at age 82, and he now gets to sit in my boat ...
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[callemquacktn]

I got myself started in Duck & Goose hunting.
I have my father to thank for getting me into hunting everything else. :D
I try to take atleast a couple of people every year that have never been hunting. As far as I know they all are active hunters.

[James Staten]

some good friends at my church took me on my first hunt for ducks and geese. But I got my strong love of hunting from my dad as he took me to the woods as soon as I could go. He liked to deer and rabbitt hunt more.

I hope to return him the favor and help him get his first goose this year. I finnaly talked him into waterfowl hunting. Says its too cold usually for him but he would be willing to lay in a field and wack a goose since there is no water involved.

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[Jason Mears]

A friend of mine introduced me to waterfowl hunting. My dad and I always thought he was so crazy for getting so excited about geese come late August but then we went one year and we've been hooked ever since.

[swat]

pops and grandpa...enough said ....

[Wile E.]

I have my Pa to thank for getting me into hunting everything. Unfortunately he now lives two provinces away so we don't get to head out as often anymore.

[SP10_shooter]

My grandpa got me into hunting, although I got the waterfowl bug on my own. He was lucky enough to live in Lancaster PA before it became one big development. Every time I saw him during the fall he had more pheasant tail feathers for me and always a new story.

[David Rearick]

My dad introduced me along with some of his buddies. They have all pretty much all stopped hunting waterfowl, so hopefully I can re-introduce him this year to a new style of hunting that really puts the birds in your face. How he used to hunt, and how I hunt today are extremely different. He always comments on how much better it is out of the layouts, with fullbodies, etc when he goes. Can't wait for Septemeber 1st.

[HeatherReddemann]

My Grandpa and Father planted the bug in me at a very young age. I grew up waterfowl hunting in the early morning and then we would go walk for pheasants when we were done. Other days, we would go out in the afternoon for a shoot too. In accompany, was always my older brother, Eric and one of my uncles too. It was a way of life and tradition for our family that you don't see to often anymore. I am forever grateful to them. I sure miss those days.

[Culley Wilson]

I started hunting ducks with a local taxidermist. He had his own business so he was free every morning and his two daughters had no interest in hunting. I killed my first duck with a single shot .410. I am a little rougher on the ducks and geese now with a semi-auto.

The first duck I ever killed was at the age of 9, with a Sheridan pellet rifle. I got my rear end tore up for it too. I didn't get my rear end tore up because I killed a duck, it was because I walked into the pond to retrieve it with my new shoes and clothes on. I was ethical in fetching wounded game from the beginning.

[goosehunter64]

A cousin introduced me to it, when I was 14. About 2 yrs later, a couple of very good friends got me more into it....but still wasn't hooked. I went with these guys off and on for a ferw years. Not until I was 25, when I was hooked ....like I had just injected heroin, directly into my brain. Another cousin and another good friend.....showed me a different way of duck hunting, so thats probably how I got more into it.
I have done some many other types or hunting.....but nothing comes close to comparison, like waterfowling.

[Hunter Brown]

Well my dad got me into this great sport or waterfowl hunting. He took me out one year for Youth day when i was 8 and had a blast and have had a passion since. I asked him why he never took me and he said he didn't think i wanted to go. But I did go and have every time through cold and warm. B

But that could all end now seeing how my parents have now got a divorce and he will have no money for shells and what not because he has to pay child-support. I still want to go I love waterfowl hunting, but I guess the road ends here.

[Ryan Brentzel]

My dad got me started in waterfowl hunting at the age of about six or seven with a gun, but was in the pit blind at about the age of three.

What really got me into waterfowl, and especially goose hunting was a couple of local guys. The one, Dave McDermott, taught me how to goose call on a short-reed and the other guy, Doug Steinke, got me hooked on to really getting the birds to decoy.

With the combination between the three, I will always be a waterfowl hunter.

[iluvfish2]

Had a coworker take me out 4 years ago. One trip on Saginaw Bay was all it took. We bagged 7 bircs total (6 different species). The vivid fall colors, and different ducks had me hooked. Luckily the next season, he gave me some loaners and that was all it took. Next year I got a few, this year many more. Still looking for the one person to help me with the finishing touches, but between the seminars, and waterfowl events I keep finding, that finishing area is getting smaller and smaller.

[finisherismyname]

I was introduced to duck hunting by my brother, he is in college now but still finds time to take me on hunts over in SD.. I started off pheasant hunting with my cousins, then to bow hunting for deer, then to duck hunting.