scolopax Posted August 28, 2011 Report Share Posted August 28, 2011 ...the first duck you shot ?? with the season nearly upon us maybe time for some 'fowling yarns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semiautolee Posted August 28, 2011 Report Share Posted August 28, 2011 a rubber one when i was a pup cant count for any others Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eccles Posted August 28, 2011 Report Share Posted August 28, 2011 Cant remember what i shot last year never mind 40+ years ago Old grey cells not that good :lol: probable a mallard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angrymallard Posted August 28, 2011 Report Share Posted August 28, 2011 (edited) I was 10 and had only been shooting for a few months and my father had just bought me my first gun, a scirrocco 20g over and under. It was also my first ever time out wildfowling on a small pond for evening flight. Two mallard came in just after the sun had set and i fired one shot into the darkness i could barely make out the shape of the duck at this time,dropped the hen stone dead way of to my right and my dad took the drake right after. Was amazed to shoot my first duck with the first shot from my new gun, the image is still clear as day in my mind after 9 years, was chuffed to bits and immediately bitten by the bug....even remember i used an rc20 32g no5 shot Edited August 28, 2011 by angrymallard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psyxologos Posted August 28, 2011 Report Share Posted August 28, 2011 Widgeon, last year. I cannot wait for this season to start and get on the marsh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigger Posted August 29, 2011 Report Share Posted August 29, 2011 Mine was a drake shoveler on thronham marsh morning flight with my dad think i was 11 shot a drake teal on evening flight aswell, fond memories of that day will stay with me forever even more so now the old man is no longer with me........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
super sharp shooter Posted August 29, 2011 Report Share Posted August 29, 2011 Best shot last year was 2 teal with 1 shot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieT Posted August 29, 2011 Report Share Posted August 29, 2011 A mallard with my catapult in 1951. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-oXo- Posted August 29, 2011 Report Share Posted August 29, 2011 Rubber one with a cork from an air rifle at the fun fair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eredel Posted August 29, 2011 Report Share Posted August 29, 2011 Embarrasingly, 30 feet directly overhead with a fully choked Baikal single... what a mess!!! Eric. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pykie Posted August 29, 2011 Report Share Posted August 29, 2011 Hen mallard with a single shot .410 as it took off a pond. I was about ten or eleven at the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent Posted August 30, 2011 Report Share Posted August 30, 2011 Caty and ball bearing mallard while Pike fishing as a kid (little monster i was). The first True ducks i shot were Teal. I was shooting with a few middle aged blokes who had been wiping my eye all day but as the darkness drew in i was the only one who could see them and showed them what i could do. A few years ago, many years on i took my daughter out on a similar flight with a mate, she saw them plain enough but we just heard the plops as they landed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenBhoy Posted September 1, 2011 Report Share Posted September 1, 2011 i may be wrong, but aren't female ducks called ducks??? not hens.... and males drakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluestem Posted September 2, 2011 Report Share Posted September 2, 2011 Blue-winged teal while prairie chicken hunting. Was hunting chickens (a cousin to your grouse) and came upon a wet area that I needed to cross. The Brittany I was hunting behind B-lined it to what looked like a little pool and up jumped three teal. Bang, bang and I had my first duck. It was so much fun I spent the next hour swamping it....bagged a couple more good fun! Bluestem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno22rf Posted September 2, 2011 Report Share Posted September 2, 2011 Dead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good shot? Posted September 2, 2011 Report Share Posted September 2, 2011 i may be wrong, but aren't female ducks called ducks??? not hens.... and males drakes. Am reliably informed they are known as Daffy (drake) and Melissa (duck) :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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