First Bird Picture

[Adam Reid]

I was looking through some old pictures and found my first Canada Goose, actually the first time I ever pulled the trigger. I shot this goose on October 13, 1985, I was 10 yrs old and it was a H&R single shot 20 guage. I dropped the massive honker on the left (right hand)! Talk about some lessers!

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/1821/firstgoose2qz1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Ray St. John]

That is a great photo Adam. Are you still that serious??????

[Jason Mears]

Very cool, ha ha, you look pretty determined.

[John Traiforos]

That is awesome, face paint and all!!

[Joe Fladeland]

Nice, That's pretty neat.

[Eric Wolf]

Those are some itty bitty geese there.

[Travis Mueller]

Hoosier Bay Adam?

[Adam Reid]

We actually shot them in the fields off the road to Babcock in Hawkeye, they used to grow winter wheat in them. Back then there weren't many geese around. It was a big day for me because it was the first time I ever pulled the trigger on something that was alive, I still have the hull.

The boat in the background is now Chad Bildsteins boat, my dad sold it to him.

[Jocelyn "Josh" Léger]

Those are the birds that got you addicted ...

Nice picture.

[chad belding]

That is awesome Adam! Nice work. I wish I would have gotten started on the ducks and geese at that age.

Good Hunting!

Chad Belding
Avery Outdoors

[Christian Curtis]

I love the face paint!!!

[CurrituckBoy]

Great first pic

Just smile :)

Michel

[Adam Reid]

I was pretty tough back in the day, lol. Good memories for sure!

[Michael Weiss]

Awesome pic!!!!

[Curt Wilson]

I have a similar picture at Reelfoot lake in 1989 with my first goose. You have to look back at the camo and decoys at that time and wonder how we even killed anything, but it sure was fun.

[Kevin Kriha]

Great post, nothing better than remembering what got it all started!

[George Zahradka]

Old pics. are neat to look at ....Man some of the stuff we did ....And some of it actually worked......

[Wayne Radcliffe]

I like the old school look.

[Eric Larsgaard]

That is a killer picture..

[Walt McCord]

Adam that is what hunting is all about!!! Memories!!! The look on your face, I would have thought you killed those with your hands!! LOL

[cottonwoodsman]

the ww2 camo and belt are classic

[Travis Mueller]

Unreal. The snows still use those fields in the spring every now and then.

[Adam Reid]

I used to watch the ducks in the spring there. I actually hunted those fields from a boat once in high water. We put the boat in from the little hill coming down from the turn off to babcock road, drove the boat down the road and hunted a high spot that was an island.

[Scott Moates]

Great picture! That looks alot like some of my old pictures. Love that camo.

[Rob Jepson]

Cool...

[Sun Drop]

Ahhh..the good ol' Walls Blizzard-Prufs, in Green Camo. I can still smell the writ dye my uncle used to make them darker to hunt the stumps.

[MNhardcorehunter]

Great pic those first bird pics are real special.