Our club hosts a youth waterfowl hunt and after , with the help of Pheasands Forever
We have a small pheasand release & hunt for the kids
This year I believe there was 5 youth waterfowlers
And a total of 8 for the pheasant hunt
Well it rained all morning while we hunted waterfowl
So I left the camera in the truck
5 kids
5 seperate blinds
1 guide...... A club member to call , 1 parent , 1 kid ( 1 older kid just went with a guide )
With a combonation of to much cloths and the rain
This years harvest was down
But several kids got at least 1 bird , 1 young man shot most of a box of shells but never touched a bird
Even the young lady with her single shot 410 that baged a woodie
We were lucky , the rain let up enough for the pheasant hunt
The kids were broken up into 2 groups
Just before we headed out
The farther of 1 of the youngsters had enough of his sons attitude and they left
So our group headed out and got a few pheasands and missed a few
But everyone had a good time
I didn't stick around for the 2 group to come in
But I understand they had a good time also
Noah my nephew ended the day with 2 Woodies and a pheasand
So this AM I took Noah out again
This time we had the club to ourselves
And we had our choice of blinds
We headed out to a blind along a large area of flooded weeds & some Millit
Well we saw a decent number of birds
But most wanted to land in the middle , not on the edge by the decoys
But we ended up with a BW Teal , a hen mallard and lost a drake mallard in the 5' high switch grass
We were just about to leave when we saw a pair of geese heading our way
A few honks and a little flagging
And they were coming in feet down
Well both ended up on the ground
And to top the fact that he had just gotten his first double on geese
One had a band
It will probely be a few days before he will loose the grin
But that is why I love taking kids hunting
And the end of the hunt tailgate shot from today
John