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Title: Shot my first duck today
Post by: John B on January 20, 2016, 11:19:17 AM
I primarily hunt upland, decided to try waterfowl this year. Third time out this season, shot my first duck. Common Goldeneye hen. My dog didn't seem to believe me that there was a bird on the other side of the pond. While I was trying to convince him to swim out he flushed a snipe, so I shot my first snipe too. Pretty good day!
Title: Re: Shot my first duck today
Post by: pianoman9701 on January 20, 2016, 11:22:15 AM
Congrats on the first of many! Great looking dog, too.
Title: Re: Shot my first duck today
Post by: Buckewe on January 20, 2016, 11:29:41 AM
Nice job the addiction has started
Title: Re: Shot my first duck today
Post by: Stinkyrat on January 20, 2016, 12:39:23 PM
Good work! I believe that is a drake however and not a hen?
Title: Re: Shot my first duck today
Post by: Bill W on January 20, 2016, 12:47:37 PM
JMO but to me it looks like a drake bufflehead.   In any case congrats on your first duck and your dog's first retrieve.  Two thumbs up.
Title: Re: Shot my first duck today
Post by: Revwrangler on January 20, 2016, 12:59:38 PM
Nice! Welcome to the club.


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Title: Re: Shot my first duck today
Post by: John B on January 20, 2016, 01:15:51 PM
Good work! I believe that is a drake however and not a hen?

I think that's just the crappy camera phone picture. It had a solid brown head, no white spot. But I'm pretty new, the picture in the regs and my ID book don't always look like the real thing.
Title: Re: Shot my first duck today
Post by: kodiak 907 on January 20, 2016, 04:03:20 PM
Young common drake. Lots of them this year. :tup:
Title: Re: Shot my first duck today
Post by: sakoshooter on January 20, 2016, 04:28:56 PM
Congrats. Welcome to the waterfowlers tribe.
Title: Re: Shot my first duck today
Post by: metlhead on January 20, 2016, 05:46:39 PM
I feel for you JB. After you wrestle with cleaning that bird, just know that all the others come apart much easier.
Title: Re: Shot my first duck today
Post by: John B on January 20, 2016, 07:21:55 PM
I feel for you JB. After you wrestle with cleaning that bird, just know that all the others come apart much easier.

Thank god, it was a chore cleaning that thing. I'm used to cleaning quail, they just pull right apart.
Title: Re: Shot my first duck today
Post by: Mark251 on January 20, 2016, 08:08:58 PM
Great job!  The first of many to come  :tup:
Title: Re: Shot my first duck today
Post by: GrampasGuns on January 21, 2016, 12:51:41 PM
If it had no white spot, and the head was solid brown it was def a hen GE.

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