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Larry, there's no delicate way to ask this, but were you adopted? If
so, was your real pappy a dashing young SabreTigger pilot?



Hehe ..... I didn't tell about the times I took 'one shell per bird in the
limit' and came home far short of that limit and with zero shells left. I
had a lot of self imposed 'rules' to make hunting harder when I was really
into it, but I haven't hunted in several years ... those two snipe were the
first birds I've harvested in a long time.

Training gun dogs as my full time employment gave me far more shooting time
than most guys, so I got pretty decent as a wingshot.

And, at one point I was a damn fine duck hunter, but I define 'duck hunter'
and
'duck shooter' as two different types of people. Both the stories ( dove
and duck ) in my last post had their 1 to 1 ratio because I'm patient enough
to wait for shots I can make ... something very few hunters I've met can do.
But, especially with ducks, if you wait stay hidden and don't try the
tougher shots you'll find that the easy ones happen far more often.

I suggest that anyone that wants to become a very good duck hunter ( as
opposed to shot) carry one shell/ duck in the limit, at least a few days
each season ... learning to only move and shoot when you feel certain you
can score is a lesson few hunters ever master