The Reasons Of Duck Hunting: The History Of Duck Hunting

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Montana Fabrocini
Mrs. Little
English III
21 May 2014
Ducks 101
Have you ever gone duck hunting and just sat thinking, “Dang I wish I had more information on how to hunt these little guys.” I will be giving you the information that you have been wanting to know about them little guys. I’ve only went duck hunting a couple of times and I figured out the hard way on finding out how hard it is to get a good hunt. It took a lot of research and hard work but now I plan to do the work for you and just tell you how and what to do to get them hard to kill ducks. You be reading how ducks live or just their habitation, and what the like to eat for when duck season isn’t in season cause baiting them during season to attract more ducks is illegal. I also plan to tell you a real deep history on how duck hunting came to what it is now. Like the ways on how duck hunting as changed over the years and how easier it has really good to be but its is still difficult just not as hard. Basically I plan to give you the history of duck hunting and the habitation on ducks. The History of Duck Hunting In New Zealand
Duck hunting in the past was a whole lot harder than it is now today. The reason is because they put a lot of work into just getting one to two ducks a day, which only would only feed two to four people. Paradise shelduck and especially grey ducks were and important source of food and feathers for Maori. Flightless fledglings and moulting adults ducks would be hunted in January and February when they would be very fat from spring and summer time feeding. (Gidlow, Perkins) Men, women and children drove ducks, sometimes using canoes and dogs, into wetland vegetation where they were easily caught or snared. (Gidlow, Perkins) Breach re...

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