First Wood Duck
 

My son got his first wood duck yesterday. He shot ducks of other species but this is the first wood duck. They flew well and it was a great morning. He shot my Fox BE 12 gauge with 28” barrels. I shot my HE Super Fox finally fixed by Dan May (5 trips to other master gunsmiths prior)

Kudos to your son...and to you for taking him.

Pictures please!!!

Congratulations Master Harry :cool:

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Good for you Harry. Enjoy the wood duck meal, very good eating.

good shooting harry them wood ducks are hard to hit for me anyway...looks like very goodhunting area....charlie

Nice shooting young man. Wood ducks are a true prize.

Congrats to Harry. He is ahead of me. I've never shot a Canvasback or Blue Wing Teal either.

You’re both ahead of me ! I’ve never fired on a duck ! Have done in a Canada or two but no quack quack birds :whistle:

Congrats to Harry! They make very pretty mounts!!!

Congrats! I think this is a record year for them in the oak bottoms

Very nice. I remember my son's first duck like it happened yesterday, we often giggle about the day. I was jumping up and down shouting high fives. My son turned to me and said calm down dad. Congratulations Harry and Mills.

We have his first South Georgia quail heading to the taxidermist.

This recalls great memories, and some humorous ones. A good friend from Charleston told me about his first duck hunt with his Dad. They were kneeling down on a pond dam that the ducks were known to pass over. Dad tells Gess to stay down until he says get up and shoot, and that when he did the ducks would be right in front of him. When this happened, on cue, Gess stood up and a greenwing teal hit him dead on in the chest, knocking him backwards. He said it hurt like heck, and scared the crap out of him!

Mallards this morning