Old Dog Driving Club pic from 1985

[Highstrung]

I didn't have a liner in mine either... class warfare..

The coldest I ever been, or as a kid, was in a pair of them.. I was probably 6 or 7, first duck hunting trip. My father and a friend slipped a boat in at the dead river in Bettyneck. It was sleeting that morning, I know I didn't have good enough clothes, but never did, never showed weakness except for that morning. They threw this "cover" over me until I couldn't take it anymore.. then pulled up to the bank because they were killing ducks and gave me the keys to the truck. I laid on the plastic floor of his old Ford with the floor vents on for a good bit.

[Tranquility]

Great thread. I froze my ass off in those green boots, the yellow liner just insulated the cold!

Most of yall sure hunted some great spots. The places I was invited to hunt, we didnt kill shit. Now the pigs have taken over, and they REALLY dont kill shit!

[cajunwannabe]

Kids these days don't have a clue. Most will never experience hunts or trials and tribulations like those from our past. It's a shame, it's what built us.

I was raised a duck hunter in Northern MI. Deer weren't our thing, just ducks, geese and upland birds and small game. My dad didn't kill his first deer until he was 72 years old but man the burlap sacks of ducks.... (heck, I didn't kill my first deer until I was 23 and living in SC) My dad hunted "Graham Point" since he was 11 years old, he was born in 1918, crazy math when you think that was over 100 years ago.

The camp pic is my youngest on his first duck hunting trip, he's soon to be 31 years old. He's a hunting, fishing machine.

[Highstrung]

Nice

[DRDUCK]

Good stuff PT

[Buckin Bronco]

Awesome pics!

[Highstrung]

I believe this was the first time I hunted a "corn pond".. had to of been in the early to beginning of the 80s with my size.. I do remember flashes of that morning, basically hearing that many ducks for the first time, and I was barely able to see out of the blind.

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Cropping out some for respect, most have passed on. But I left my dad and "Griffen".