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 is this your first season
#567260
01/23/09 12:47 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
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R.G.C.
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THF Trophy Hunter
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: R.G.C.]
#567261
01/23/09 12:55 AM
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Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 1,661
_Scooter_
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First year in TX... but I grew up hunting Duck/Geese in NY. I'm more hooked to waterfowling now due to the fact that the season is alot longer and the weather is WaaaaaaaY better here!
Wasn't born in Texas, but I got there as fast as I could. 
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: _Scooter_]
#567262
01/23/09 01:06 AM
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wlgorman
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first season. Started hunting opening day in eagle lake w/ my cousing for geese. Got skunked about 7 times in a row then it all just clicked...
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: wlgorman]
#567263
01/23/09 01:14 AM
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Joined: Sep 2008
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monkeyexpress
Bird Dog
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Bird Dog
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first year duck hunting texas, been hunting since 97, on hiatus since 2004.
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: monkeyexpress]
#567264
01/23/09 01:43 AM
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Joined: Sep 2007
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TexasEd
THF Trophy Hunter
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Yes. (I'm trying to forget last year was a season long skunk and I didn't know what I was doing)
Was also my dog's first year.
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: TexasEd]
#567265
01/23/09 01:45 AM
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Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 742
kingbert23
Tracker
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Tracker
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Yessir. First year hooked worse than a 8 lb bass on a good day. Gettin' skunked and lovin' it!
 brian@caprockins.com
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: kingbert23]
#567266
01/23/09 02:01 AM
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Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 38
jboato
Light Foot
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Light Foot
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Yes, this is my first season hunting all together, and I'm definitely hooked to waterfowl. Very frustrated right now with season ending on the 25th and picking up what appears to be the flu a few days before.
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: jboato]
#567267
01/23/09 02:15 AM
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Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 150
BUnityBears
Woodsman
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Woodsman
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This is my first year of consistant duck hunting. I am loving it and can't wait for next year already....
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: BUnityBears]
#567268
01/23/09 03:11 AM
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Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 857
940AC
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Tracker
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Have hunted Quail, Dove, Pheasant..... and now Ducks.
My cousin got me into it and have had a ton of fun.
 No bad days hunting
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: R.G.C.]
#567269
01/23/09 04:20 AM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 16,474
Crazyhorse
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THF Celebrity
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: Crazyhorse]
#567270
01/23/09 04:29 AM
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Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 248
slipshot
Woodsman
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Woodsman
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Every year is like the first. Learn some things and forget some. But its still fun. When I lose that first year enjoyment I will sell the dekes!!
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: Crazyhorse]
#567271
01/23/09 04:40 AM
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Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 3,422
spanky
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Does first time in 30 years count????????? 
1st time since the mid 80'S. Nothing has really changed, just more folks hunting
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: spanky]
#567272
01/23/09 04:49 AM
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Joined: Jun 2008
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Frisbie
THF Trophy Hunter
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This is my first season.... I am EXTREMELY hooked!!! I won't give up deer hunting quite yet but I love duck hunting. I feel like there is a lot more skill involved in it. Anyone can go out and put crosshairs on a buck 100 yds away and shoot it with a high powered rifle. The main thing that intrested me is the skill... Calling, the knowledge of the way you set up your decoys, and the shot. It takes a lot more skill to hit a duck decoying than a deer at 100 yds..... QUACKHEAD!!!!
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: Frisbie]
#567273
01/23/09 04:52 AM
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Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 3,422
spanky
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I took some friends a couple of weeks ago duck hunting, and they still cannot stop talking about it. Both are avid deer hunters, and both have volunteered to help me dig and build a bigger blind for next year.
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: spanky]
#567274
01/23/09 05:03 AM
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Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 29
simek
Light Foot
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Light Foot
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First year to duck hunt for real.
I've been with friends before, but this has been the first year that I've really gotten into it. My wife bought me a lab for my bday last year (November of 2007) and I took her to Zack ad High Performance Retrievers (he posts here a bit).
It has been extremely satisfying educational, enjoyable and humbling all in one. Both I and the dog need more work and continuue to learn every hunt. To say I am hooked is an understatement.
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: simek]
#567275
01/23/09 05:05 AM
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spanky
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First year to duck hunt for real.
I've been with friends before, but this has been the first year that I've really gotten into it. My wife bought me a lab for my bday last year (November of 2007) and I took her to Zack ad High Performance Retrievers (he posts here a bit).
It has been extremely satisfying educational, enjoyable and humbling all in one. Both I and the dog need more work and continuue to learn every hunt. To say I am hooked is an understatement.
Good for you. all good times.
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: spanky]
#567276
01/23/09 05:06 AM
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Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 1,951
lakewaydr50
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Sort of.............I just started duck hunting again this year after about a 20 to 25 year break. I had never hunted with decoys, calls, and a dog. I grew up in Louisiana and you could go find a place that had plenty of duck traffic and shoot all you wanted, mostly skillet shots on woodies. I really didn't realize what I was missing until I let my 15 year old son and the ducks flying over my house talk me into doing this. I feel like about this time next week I am going to have the DT's like someone trying to quit an addiction cold turkey. We still have the conservation goose season and we are shooting clays every other weekend, hopefully that will settle me down some. I can hardly wait until Teal season gets here.
Last edited by lakewaydr50; 01/23/09 05:08 AM.
Isaiah 40:31 "but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: TexasEd]
#567277
01/23/09 05:21 AM
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Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 6,680
Hopedale
THF Trophy Hunter
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Yes. (I'm trying to forget last year was a season long skunk and I didn't know what I was doing)
Was also my dog's first year.
Even if you do got more birds then me, I still say you don't know what you are doing! 
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: spanky]
#567278
01/23/09 05:24 AM
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Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 275
Bilbo Baggins
Bird Dog
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Hey Spanky, not to out-do you but when I got back to duck hunting five years ago it was the first time in about 40 years. Yes, about 40 years!!! I had to learn to ID ducks like I had never done it before. Sure mallards and teal were easy but some of the other ducks made me get out my thinking cap again. Welcome back Mister Kotter...and enjoy the great outdoors.
Bilbo Baggins
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: Bilbo Baggins]
#567279
01/23/09 05:27 AM
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Joined: Sep 2004
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spanky
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Hey Spanky, not to out-do you but when I got back to duck hunting five years ago it was the first time in about 40 years. Yes, about 40 years!!! I had to learn to ID ducks like I had never done it before. Sure mallards and teal were easy but some of the other ducks made me get out my thinking cap again. Welcome back Mister Kotter...and enjoy the great outdoors.
Welcome back friend...........yes it is a lot of fun, why did I miss over 25 yrs.of this.
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: spanky]
#567280
01/23/09 05:52 AM
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Joined: Dec 2005
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Bilbo Baggins
Bird Dog
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Bird Dog
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Thanks Spanky, it is nice to be BACK. Good luck and good SHOOTING...
Bilbo Baggins
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: Hopedale]
#567281
01/23/09 06:07 AM
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Joined: Jul 2007
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lakewaydr50
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Yes. (I'm trying to forget last year was a season long skunk and I didn't know what I was doing)
Was also my dog's first year.
Even if you do got more birds then me, I still say you don't know what you are doing!
If I don't get one this weekend that is what I am headed for. The sad part is if I would have just went to the shooting range and spent the time before the season that I have spent lately I would have had all my shooting problems sorted out. I didn't have a whole lot of issues getting on ducks I just couldn't connect with them solid enough to knock the out of the sky. My problem turned out to be to much lead and an eye alignment problem. I think we have that sorted out now and if I can just get a bird in range I think I can plant him. The last time we went to shoot I left the range with the feeling I couldn't miss. That's 90% of the battle.
Isaiah 40:31 "but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: lakewaydr50]
#567282
01/23/09 06:29 AM
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Dave Speer
Extreme Tracker
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I'm hooked. Been 13 times.
Got ducks 3 of those days and snipe the last two. Wish some of them other 10 days were productive.
Trying to decide if I will go Friday morning for my last ducks of the year. I think I will skip the mad weekend rush.
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: Dave Speer]
#567283
01/23/09 07:57 AM
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Quacknfin
Bird Dog
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Bird Dog
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This is my first full year. Went on a couple last year, getting laid off recently has increased my number of hunts this year. I'm definitely hooked and even took my eight year old girl on a few trips and she got her first last weekend, a drake ringneck!
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Re: is this your first season
[Re: simek]
#567284
01/23/09 08:33 AM
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Joined: Sep 2007
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TexasEd
THF Trophy Hunter
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First year to duck hunt for real.
I've been with friends before, but this has been the first year that I've really gotten into it. My wife bought me a lab for my bday last year (November of 2007) and I took her to Zack ad High Performance Retrievers (he posts here a bit).
It has been extremely satisfying educational, enjoyable and humbling all in one. Both I and the dog need more work and continuue to learn every hunt. To say I am hooked is an understatement.
I blame a good portion of the addiction on the dog. I mean you have to take them hunting after the work that Zack and you have put into them. I know because I did the same thing. Our dogs were probably there at the same time.
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