Your mentor???

[Swampy]

Who introduced you to this wonderful sport???

[Lybeck]

Definately my dad He started me early I think my first hunt was when I was 2 years old we would be sitting in the blind early in the morning and I would always say theres a duck and he would have to explain that that was a crow or seagull and not a duck but I learned quick and now I know more about duck ID than he does! he stopped duck hunting when I was 9 for upland game bird hunting but I still go by myself sometimes with my buddy but it works my dad's not patient he can only stand to sit in a blind for 45 minutes then he's ready to go me on the other hand could sit all day.

[Bonecrusher]

My grandfather, introduced me to the joys of fly fishing, & duck hunting before I started school... The best legacy he could have left me

[waterfowladdict1]

My dad started me out. I used to hold him back and now he cant keep.

[Walt McCord]

My father and grandfather started me out hunting quail. I loved it from the first day. I hunted all my years in highschool and even lost 2 girlfriends becuase I went hunting more than I spent time with them, oh well.

[AlexGerhardson]

My father, he made sure I got my firearms safety and learned all the ducks when i was 13. I'll never forget the first morning in the duck blind on "take a kid hunting day" before the actual season starts, here in minnesota. We were in the blind and my father told me he was just along to watch and didn't even bring a gun! that was great, i shot so many shells and hit very little ducks.

[goetler]

It was my dad that got me into this fine sport. Now if he would only help with paying for some of it:D . He dosen't hunt anymore but I still can remember back in the early 70's when he took me with a couple times when I was around 4 or 5 and I got to bring the BB gun with. I shot all the ducks those days with that BB gun:D :D . Those are the memories that I will remember forever.:cool:

[PEI Duck Guy]

My dad!!!

[jamesmc]

My best friend Mike introduced me about 5 years ago. He has cost me all kinds of money because of it.....lol. It is worth every penny. I haven't loved any hunting as much as I love waterfowl hunting. I eat, sleep and breath it now.

[Rusty Hallock]

My dad started me hunting.

[mike.]

bighonkers89 and my other buddy got me addicted to waterfowl at the end of last season but i started hunting way before that. My parents good friend invited me to go deer hunting with him in our bush. At first i just sat in a homemade stand that we built and watched for deer and then hat year i took the courses for my licence. Before the next deer season, i bought myself a pretty cool crossbow (a barnett quad 400) and thats when my addiction to hunting started.My dad always rabbit hunted so i started going rabbit hunting with my dad and his friends more often and thats when i got to know bighonkers89 since his dad hunted with my dad . We went to the same highschool but didnt really know each other until after we hunted together a few times and now we're pretty good friends...so i dont know who really got me into hunting, i think it was in my blood :) lol

[Eric Wolf]

A friend of my family got me started. He took my brother and me on the youth waterfowl hunt, and I was hooked since.

[Dwayne Padgett]

My dad who was never to sick or tired to get out of the bed and take me. He's now 75 years old and I'm still trying to repay the favor!

[Aaron Hitchins]

Dad was always a Big Game and Ruffed Grouse guy, but he waterfowled more than a lot of other people in the area, which isn't saying a lot. Deer hunting has always been the biggest of things around here, and as I grew up it had priority, but I tagged along on a couple of duck hunts.

When I got my liscence, the first season that was open was ducks, and it was then that I shot my first game, a pair of ringneck drakes. We had a good deer season that fall, with about 10 ducks, and the next year brought more waterfowl, but 3 deer, one a 225lb. Whitetail which made my season. The next year we Goose hunted a couple of times alongside our duck hunting, and I figure that was when I really got hooked. I always enjoyed it, but that season, and the involvement with Avery and the message boards had me raring to go last fall, and it was an unprecedented success.

Dad now waterfowl hunts more than anything else, and really loves it, though he still has his passion for deer hunting, much of which can be attributed to his love for venison.

That might sum it up, waterfowling was never our main focus until last season, and now it has taken over, and Dad is learning from me!

Aaron

[bolweevil]

Dad started carrying me when I was 2 years old. I never missed an opportunity to go with him from then on. There were many mornings that he would have liked to stay in bed, but because I said they just might fly today, he took me. We have spent many hours together in the duck blind, boat fishing, pheasant hunting, and share many other special moments. He is my hero. There are few things that are as important as spending time, one on one, with your Dad. He is especially important to me and now to my son who is 4 years old. He has spent a lot of time with his Granddad and loves him dearly. He was diagnosed with Acute Leukemia yesterday. Dad, I love you!

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[Kile Jones]

A friend from our old church named Dan Mock, he got me on hunting, my friend Robert Jokumsen got me started on Duck Hunting.

[Dallas W Branch]

A great man that spoke few words....my Grandfather.

[Josh Carda]

My Grandpa introduced my dad and my dad introduced me. We all hunt together, its very exciting. We usually waterfowl hunt from early november till the middle of feburary.
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[duckin82]

My dad definitely got me into hunting. the first time i ever went hunting was with my dad when i was 3. it was a dove hunt and ever since then ive been hooked on hunting.

[Erick Grandbois]

My Dad also took me hunting when i was about 10 right in front of the house on the st-lawrence river. I am addicted since that time and i am starting my 23 rd season this year.... I hunt exclusively for waterfowl and put a lot of work into that.... When i was old ennough to hunt alone my dad kind of quited!!!! Not ennough time he said, but i took him with me last year in our sink box and i could see he was happy"even if his shooting was terrible!!! ) Erick Grandbois

[QuackerWacker]

When I was 8 or 9 I used to sit outside on the porch and listen to the gunshots coming from the river out 1.5 miles away so I started buggin my dad and after about 4 years he took me down to the river when he was salmon fishing and dropped me off on a point with a dz mallard dekes, a call, and a pump 20 guage that I saved my paper route money for and Ive been hooked ever since. I had to learn everything the hard way with nobody to show me what to do or how to do it. When I was 14 and could legally pack a gun by myself I used to walk across town with a bag of dekes and a gun and the cops would always harass me but I didn't let that stop me. When I finally started figuring things out the old timers would drive by me while I was packin my gear home and they would stop to talk with me because I was almost always carrying 3 or 4 pintails and they wanted to know were I got them.

[Craig Boyd]

My dad introduced me to the outdoors when I was around the age of 3. I started hunting ducks at about 9.

[Scott Spalding]

Clay Hudnall when we met and is now my first passion. i always wanted to learn how to and then lil help from him made is possible.

[goose 5]

My Dad started me out and he is the only person hunt with and love to do it with him.

[giantkillertate]

My uncle he would stop every weekend and take me out hunting and still to this day he stops by and now i drive so he can sleep.

[Corey Carston]

My dad and Grandad

[HONKER#1]

My pops did. I was about 11 I think when I went on my first hunt, and I got hooked!! Thanks Pops!

[kundog331]

I was introduced into Waterfowl World by Casey Self (Buck Gardner Prostaff) in 2001, and I have been hooked ever since. He first took me duck hunting, and that was the start of my decoy collection. He then took me goose hunting and I have been addicted ever since. My wife blames it all on him. I can't wait to pass this obsession on to my son. Once it is in your blood you will never get it out.

Mark

[HonkBirdBomber]

I recieved my hunting gene from my dad who loves to deer hunt, but I owe my waterfowl addiction to two of my best friends who started taking me when I was fifteen. Proud to say we are all still deeply addicted and spend every possible minute we can hunting.

[Mike Walker]

A real good friend 25 years ago and wouldn't change a thing about it.

[mallard mauler]

definetly would have to be my dad,some people just laugh at me when i tell them about the ducks we used to shoot but we man did we have fun, he has since moved to a different state and we get together to hunt anymore but i sure do miss those days.

[Hardcorecaller12]

My dad!!:D

[Arliss Reed "Cuz"]

As I read all of these posts, I see that most people were introduced to waterfowl hunting by their Father/Grandfather, and I too was introduced to it by my father, waterfowl hunting has been a long tradition in my family and I aim to keep it that way, which brings me to my point....

Take someone else's kid hunting.

Hunting in general is a dieing endeavor and my generation may be the last whose Fathers all hunted, today is not the same story, people have busy lives and dont find the time to hunt or bring their kids out. So if you want our sport which we all love to continue, we have to introduce as many kids to hunting as possible.

[goosenater]

It has to be my dad. I use to sit in the boat with him at the age of 4. At the age of 6 I won a 20 gauge shot gun at a DU thing. And my dad always encouraged me in waterfowl hunting and the outdoors.

[James27]

my dad