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One Morning

Words By - Jeff Moore

TEXAS | SEALY

Every waterfowler has a lifelong story. This is mine and only mine. My intent was to celebrate my sport with what I did, what I remembered, what I felt. My hope is that it elevates to a more profound statement in the end.

One morning,

I followed my father down a bar ditch between the rice fields near Hockley, Texas and sat still. Too young for a gun. Too poor for decoys. Just hoping a specklebelly, snow or blue would fly over low enough so my father could shoot his Remington Sportsman 48. 

One morning,

I bought a Faulk’s duck call for $4.95 at the neighborhood Ace Hardware and blew it on the walk home. 

One morning,

I shot my first duck — a hen shoveler, decoying into a small lake near Sealy, Texas. 

One morning,

I entered a duck-calling contest, did not squeal and came in second. 

One morning,

the law said I could not shoot a canvasback. 

One morning,

the law said I could shoot two. 

One morning,

I painted a duck stamp. 

One morning,

I waded in the decoys and watched in slow motion as my Chick Major’s duck call insert dropped in the water. 

One morning,

I hunted snow geese in dense fog on a rice field called “Yankee Stadium,” next to an old man wearing a P.E.T.A hat. (People. Eating. Tasty. Animals.) 

One morning,

I hunted on a national wildlife refuge. 

One morning,

I thanked a veteran with a hunt. 

One morning,

I mastered the northwest wind. 

One morning,

I watched an

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