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The Influence - I grew up in western NC with a father that was an avid outdoorsman and big upland hunter, grouse mainly. He instilled in my brothers and sister and I, that the outdoors was to be shared and enjoyed but also respected. He also had a passion of breeding, training, and selling English Setters. It did not take long for me to fall in love with being out in God’s beautiful creation and gain the passion of bird hunting and the companionship I saw him create with some of his best friends, his birddogs.  Introduction to Waterfowl - I did not get introduced to hunting waterfowl until my early years of college at NC State University. Of course, my friends were far more proficient at the sport than I was, and it seemed so much different than pointing and flushing coveys on an old logging road around the side of a mountain. I noticed that they all had expensive shotguns, duck decoys, nice camouflage, boats, etc. But what really caught my interest about the sport of water fowling,