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California Waterfowl Expo & Hunter Skills Challen

John Martin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:01:13 +0000

What: California Waterfowl Expo & Hunter Skills Challenge
Where: Waterloo Gun & Bocci Club – Stockton
When: Saturday, September 18th, 2010

Planned Daytime Activities
1. Waterfowl Hunter Skills Challenge – Tests of your shooting and hunting skills, for all ages and abilities.
2. Trap, skeet and sporting clays shooting
3. Vendor booths
4. Product trials from Beretta and Leupold
5. Swap meet – sell your extra hunting equipment, we are looking to have an FFL onsite to handle used gun sales.
6. Raffle for great prizes.
7. CWA merchandise and duck stamp sales.

Official signups and flyer with more details should be available by early July.

More information at the california waterfowl site;

To volunteer or donate, email George_oberstadt@calwaterfowl.org or call 916-275-0961.

Sydney’s Duck

John Martin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:34:13 +0000

Exposing the kids to hunting and the outdoors can be tough when the majority of your outings are extended affairs in distant spots and foul weather. I completely understand when kids don’t want to leave the house to go out in a rainstorm for an all-day hunt.
During the holidays, we had a chance to jump a few ducks off the pond, and that is just the ticket for a 3 year old to tag along. The main goal of the outing was to get our 11 year old, Erin, a chance at a duck or two.

As it turned out the ducks flew the opposite direction from where we were waiting for them to flush over us. Instead they flew over my uncle, Colby and he dropped one with his second shot. The duck fell in the field, so Sydney got the chance to be the retriever.

After searching the field, she examined the duck for quite a while before she picked it up. From that point on though, it was HER duck!

She marched it all the way back to the house, even making a stop to show off her prize to Mom, on the tractor. All of a sudden Erin, became a mentor to her little sister when Colby and I were trying to mentor HER. We had created an unintended bonding moment between sisters.

California Waterfowl “Celebration of the Harvest”

John Martin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:01:06 +0000

I’ll be taking a break from my big game pursuits to attend the California Waterfowl Association’s Celebration of the Harvest event. It starts at noon on October 10th, 2009 at the Waterloo Gun Club in Stockton.

It will be a chance to participate in a sporting clays fun shoot, watch a demo of Beretta, and Leupold products, have some wine and cheese after and eat a great meal, all to benefit California Outdoor Heritage Alliance.

California Waterfowl created the COHA in 2006 in reaction to the growing anti gun and hunting movement that threatens our hunting heritage. Proceeds to help fund California Waterfowl’s ongoing commitment to support the California Outdoor Heritage Alliance (COHA).

If you would like more information, you can find a .PDF flyer online . Or you may look at the events calendar for the California Waterfowl Association.

Hope to see you there. If so be sure to introduce yourself.