Who is or was your hunting mentor

[JFrank]

Brother in law, likely around 1968-69. Remember him saying "let's go look for chickens", I had no idea what a grouse was at that time, we didn't see any. Just after that, I went out hunting ducks with a friend of my dad's, I remember that pretty well, lots of fun, I had to be the retriever in one of the ponds, out in the Chilcotin in BC. Had a blast doing that. Did a lot of chicken hunting with my dad after that, he didn't hunt, he drove, I shot, he liked eating them. Covered a pile of places between 100mi House and Quesnel. I used to hunt squirrels and grouse on the hill behind our place on my own, go trudging up the hill thru a trailer park with the 870 or a CIL/Anschutz singleshot 22.

I remember going duck hunting in eastern Washington during a cold snap with my BIL and his lab ( Fred ) the funny part was when we were in a make shift blind Fred was sitting in ice water past his balls and while trying to be quiet, Fred would be chattering his teeth, we kept shushing and he’d look at us and stop for a moment or two than go back to teeth chattering.
It wasn’t long before we were laughing out load and finally had to move to a different blind.

 

[Doug Casner]

Ive killed more ducks out of a little blind willows stuck in the ground just breaking your outline. The old dog wo uld just run through the blind to get the ducks. The makeshift blinds were put up where the ducks were using, so it was usually pretty hot. Doug