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is this your first season
Posted By: R.G.C.
is this your first season - 01/23/09 12:47 AM
Posted By: _Scooter_
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 12:55 AM
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!
Posted By: wlgorman
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 01:06 AM
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...
Posted By: monkeyexpress
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 01:14 AM
first year duck hunting texas, been hunting since 97, on hiatus since 2004.
Posted By: TexasEd
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 01:43 AM
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.
Posted By: kingbert23
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 01:45 AM
Yessir. First year hooked worse than a 8 lb bass on a good day. Gettin' skunked and lovin' it!
Posted By: jboato
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 02:01 AM
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.
Posted By: BUnityBears
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 02:15 AM
This is my first year of consistant duck hunting. I am loving it and can't wait for next year already....
Posted By: 940AC
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 03:11 AM
Have hunted Quail, Dove, Pheasant..... and now Ducks.
My cousin got me into it and have had a ton of fun.
Posted By: Crazyhorse
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 04:20 AM
Posted By: slipshot
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 04:29 AM
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!!
Posted By: spanky
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 04:40 AM
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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
Posted By: Frisbie
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 04:49 AM
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!!!!
Posted By: spanky
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 04:52 AM
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.
Posted By: simek
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 05:03 AM
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.
Posted By: spanky
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 05:05 AM
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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.
Posted By: lakewaydr50
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 05:06 AM
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.
Posted By: Hopedale
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 05:21 AM
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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! 
Posted By: Bilbo Baggins
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 05:24 AM
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.
Posted By: spanky
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 05:27 AM
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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.
Posted By: Bilbo Baggins
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 05:52 AM
Thanks Spanky, it is nice to be BACK. Good luck and good SHOOTING...
Posted By: lakewaydr50
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 06:07 AM
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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.
Posted By: Dave Speer
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 06:29 AM
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.
Posted By: Quacknfin
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 07:57 AM
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!
Posted By: TexasEd
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 08:33 AM
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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.
Posted By: TexasEd
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 08:43 AM
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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.
They were all productive if you learned something from them.
Posted By: cbump
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 10:29 AM
Got bored after deer season so tried my hand at duck hunting a couple of weeks ago. Shot my first duck ever and it happened to be a greenhead. I am hooked now. Can't wait until next year, when I will have my first full season.
Posted By: Dave Speer
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 05:35 PM
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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.
They were all productive if you learned something from them.
TexasEd, you're right. I was awfully tired last night when I posted that. And out of the 13 times I shot snipe two of those other days so I made contact with a bird 5 hunts and skunked 8. That's not bad. I really did learn a lot on each of those hunts. A couple I did early this week I'm not sure what I learned but the other ones were very educational.
Posted By: Txduckman
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 07:39 PM
First season alright... To not go on a duck hunt that is. Maybe I better just change my name to dove or yote hunter. I used all my hunting chances to go hunt all game but ducks this year. My buddy I normally duck hunt with is starting up his business and we just didn't have time to go.
Posted By: BOBO the Clown
Re: is this your first season - 01/23/09 07:53 PM
First season to have my own dog and hunt of decoys instead of tank jumping.
