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Taking a 6 yr old on 1st duck hunt tips
Posted on 12/31/19 at 2:11 pm
Posted on 12/31/19 at 2:11 pm
I’m planning on bringing my 6yo daughter on her first duck hunt Thursday.
I am out of a lease this year so I figured I would try a quick wood duck hunt at Sherburne.
Any tips?
She went on her 1st deer hunt earlier this season and loved it. She has been bugging me to bring her to do something again but due to lack of access I haven’t been able to bring deer hunting again. I figured this would be a good way to introduce her to duck hunting.
I am out of a lease this year so I figured I would try a quick wood duck hunt at Sherburne.
Any tips?
She went on her 1st deer hunt earlier this season and loved it. She has been bugging me to bring her to do something again but due to lack of access I haven’t been able to bring deer hunting again. I figured this would be a good way to introduce her to duck hunting.
This post was edited on 12/31/19 at 2:14 pm
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Posted on 12/31/19 at 2:19 pm to geauxcats10
Hot hands, snacks, more snacks, an emergency charged iPad.
Give her a pintail whistle, she can toot it all she wants and won't bother ducks at all.
Give her a pintail whistle, she can toot it all she wants and won't bother ducks at all.
Posted on 12/31/19 at 2:28 pm to 10MTNTiger
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Hot hands, snacks, more snacks, an emergency charged iPad.
this right here
Posted on 12/31/19 at 2:31 pm to geauxcats10
Just remember this hunt is really about her. Keep it easy for her, and be ready to wrap it up before you might be ready. Like mentioned snacks and phone/pad really helps. By the way good job on getting her out there 
Posted on 12/31/19 at 2:33 pm to commode
I agree . Wood duck hunts are usually over rather quickly .
Posted on 12/31/19 at 2:34 pm to geauxcats10
I'd pack a change of clothes and a towel.
One of my first duck hunts around that age began with a splash in the decoy spread. I spent the rest of the morning wearing my dad's coat and not much else.
One of my first duck hunts around that age began with a splash in the decoy spread. I spent the rest of the morning wearing my dad's coat and not much else.
Posted on 12/31/19 at 2:59 pm to geauxcats10
Keep it about the outing and not about the killing. If she has fun, she’ll keep,going.
Posted on 12/31/19 at 4:45 pm to Geauxtiga
My 6 year old comes with me almost every morning. Warm clothes, ear protection, hot hands and snacks. I try to make the most out of every trip. He gets really excited when we’re working birds. I try to stress the importance staying down and still. He’s learning a lot and loves to go every chance he can. Oh and plenty of BB’s to shoot decoys.
Posted on 12/31/19 at 5:06 pm to geauxcats10
Ear protection.
Posted on 12/31/19 at 7:08 pm to tigernation81
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My 6 year old comes with me almost every morning. Warm clothes, ear protection, hot hands and snacks. I try to make the most out of every trip. He gets really excited when we’re working birds. I try to stress the importance staying down and still. He’s learning a lot and loves to go every chance he can. Oh and plenty of BB’s to shoot decoys.
That is dang near child abuse....kids gonna get a skewed vision of duck hunting. I say wait until there's ice, hide their coat and gloves, give 'em the leaky waders and have them reset the spread 8- 10 times before lunch....all the time screaming about sky busters and folks setting up to close to your spot...if a boat is involved make sure it won't crank easy and get it stuck on something so you out way past dark.....if you do all of that the first 7 0 8 years they hunt with you and they go when they can whup you they know what duck hunting is like....making it more comfortable than it ought to be is misleading and is the reason so many kids give it up when reality sets in.
My father used to treat me like a rented slave fishing and hunting.....at 7 it wasn't unusual at all for me to tote a 1436 jon boat several miles so we could go fishing....his advice was to make certain the center of gravity was on my head so my shoulders wouldn't get sore and I would have trouble casting.....I loved it! The only reason I still hunt and fish is because no hardship can happen that I haven't experienced before, and most of it before I was 12 years old! I am 55 now and think nothing about packing 5 dozen weighted keel decoys 2 miles one way, busting ice and hunkering down with no blind at all to shoot a duck.....handwarmers smandwarmers the earlier a duck hunter loses the use of their hands the better....otherwise those decoy lines HURT when they are frozen....
Posted on 12/31/19 at 7:15 pm to NimbleCat
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I'd pack a change of clothes and a towel.
One of my first duck hunts around that age began with a splash in the decoy spread. I spent the rest of the morning wearing my dad's coat and not much else.
Thats the way to make a duck hunter! I floated my hat one morning in 5 degree weather and turned white immediately upon exiting the water....my Dad's reaction was "youre gonna flare every bird in the county with the white camo,...." We never considered heading to the hill...I was about 11 and would've been broken hearted had he made out like I wasn't tough enough to hunt with a little ice caked up from head to toe! This is why kids are so soft these days...we hide the truth from 'em...
I took my son fishing starting when he was 6 and we'd stay on the water from daylight to dark and wouldn't have nothing more than a couple of bottles of warm water. Did he complain? Sure he did....but he wanted to go next time. Now that son of a gun will stay offshore days at a time while I like the idea of a marina, a cigar and a couple of drinks....kids are tougher than shoe leather, especially little girls, you just cant let em know that any weakness is a possibility...once they learn it is they will find it easy to quit when things get uncomfortable....
Posted on 12/31/19 at 9:19 pm to geauxcats10
Thursday is supposed to be bad weather maybe pick another day 
Posted on 12/31/19 at 10:36 pm to Gtmodawg
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I floated my hat one morning in 5 degree weather and turned white immediately upon exiting
You May be the actual reason for that stupid term that the young kids made up these days. When my son wants to go, we go. We don't leave early, because he's bored, but I also do want him to enjoy it. Too many stupid things that kids can waste their time on these days. He has fun when we hunt/fish, but it's definitely not the same as a trip by myself or with a couple buddies.
This post was edited on 12/31/19 at 10:40 pm
Posted on 12/31/19 at 11:46 pm to geauxcats10
Yeah, sit well behind her. No sense chancing one in the head if she gets excited.
Posted on 1/1/20 at 1:35 am to geauxcats10
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Taking a 6 yr old on 1st duck hunt
Why? Hes 6
Just kidding....go late, leave early. It's all about the camp life at that age..great memorues
Posted on 1/1/20 at 11:36 am to GeeOH
When mine was six he could use whistle, teal and grey call. A few shots w 28 ga
Mans hearing protection
Mans hearing protection
This post was edited on 1/1/20 at 1:18 pm
Posted on 1/1/20 at 1:45 pm to Gtmodawg
quote:and you seem really well adjusted
My father used to treat me like a rented slave fishing and hunting.
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