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the_honest_pintail
PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 7:17 pm  Reply with quote
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To this day I can still remember my dad waking me up to go hunting on opening morning. The smell of spent shells and autumn weather is etched in my mind. Now I have the pleasure of waking up a little boy to come with me.



The shooting was slow but managed to get a very nice speck with the sweet sixteen

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:34 am  Reply with quote
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Great stuff! Love the smiles, thanks for sharing.

Regarding O/U's, IMO, if looking for something to hand over to your new hunting bud there someday; I wouldn't consider anything lower in price point than a Citori. A few White's on GB right now, new in the $1500 range, hard to beat.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 5:31 am  Reply with quote
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Very cool! see you had his BB gun with,great idea.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 5:50 am  Reply with quote
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Wow. That is awesome. Brings back memories of my first hunt with my dad when I was 7. Later in life, after he passed away, those times we spent afield and the closeness we had were the greatest gift he could have ever given me. Way to go!

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 7:12 am  Reply with quote
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Great pictures, love seeing the miles of smiles.
Lots of memories being made there!!

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 8:29 am  Reply with quote



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Awesome
I’d have the young guy wear hearing protection.
Wish I had done so many years ago.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 11:44 am  Reply with quote



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You are very fortunate. My dad got to the point he couldn't get around by time I took up bird hunting. Take the little guy often and cherish that big smile.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 5:04 pm  Reply with quote
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Thanks for sharing and I recall the first hunts I took my sons on. They are going to join me for four days the end of next week and it will not be long before I start taking my grandkids out.

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pintail,

Congrats on a fine using with your boy, great memory maker for sure!

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Dave In AZ
PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2018 12:06 pm  Reply with quote



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Fantastic, so glad you and your son got out together!
I love pics and stories like this. Make the most of these next few years, in High School they have soooo many competing interests that make it difficult to get out with them. My 10yo daughter is now taking over as my hunting buddy Wink
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I have to ask, is "the honest pintail" homage to Robert Ruark's "The Old Man and the Boy" where he speaks of the pintail as an honest duck that won't go off and get nasty by eating fish on you?

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 14, 2018 8:02 am  Reply with quote
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WyoChukar wrote:
I have to ask, is "the honest pintail" homage to Robert Ruark's "The Old Man and the Boy" where he speaks of the pintail as an honest duck that won't go off and get nasty by eating fish on you?


Yes Sir! One of my favorite books, I just read it to my son this summer and every night after I would read him a chapter I would ask him question about what the old man was teach the boy and he was listening to every word.
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3 Happy Campers.

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My now 16 year old grandson, at age 9, after his first dove shoot carrying a gun. Stoeger .410 S x S with shortened buttstock.

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dannypratt
PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 7:22 pm  Reply with quote
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Guys
This is great stuff! My 6 yr old keeps inquiring....she's a tough little girl, and I believe she will be taking a stroll thru the woods this fall as well.
Very encouraging.

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