Hunting Memories Essay

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Assignment #1 English 101 Revision # 1 February 11, 2013 My best memory hunting Saturday, October 26, 2004: the day my dream would become a reality. This would be the first time that I was able to go duck hunting and fire a gun. I had just received my hunting license and a 12-gauge shotgun as an early Christmas present. It was a cold and windy morning that day. The day started by having to get up at two o’clock in the morning followed by a long car ride and normally when I am in a car I can fall asleep, but this morning I was too excited to do that. Then we had a long cold boat ride that took us to the hunting spot. I was hunting in a blind on Flat Lake. My Dad had won the blind in a raffle held every three years at Jerseyville. The blind was on 1 of 4 lakes in the area, roughly five miles from the Illinois River, and about 20 miles north of Grafton, Illinois. The blind was big enough to accommodate eight full-size adults. Only two kids were shooting that day because it was the annual youth hunt where only kids, 15 years old or younger, get a chance to shoot at some ducks. Our decoy spread consisted of about 400 decoys in every specious you can imagine. When we got there it was still an hour away from shooting time. As my friend Luke and I sat patiently in the duck blind, we heard wood ducks whistling in the trees 90 feet from our blind that’s when we knew it was going to be a good hunt. Then I saw the outline of a group of Teal zoom right over the decoys. Without warning, a lone drake Widgeon landed in our decoys. With 20 minutes until shooting time, Luke and I could only sit and watch the Widgeon fly away into the darkness. After my Dad, Ty, Luke’s Dad, and Dirk were finished moving decoys around according to the wind, and setting up the motion decoys, they finally came into the blind and said that we

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