"The Duck Hunter Diairies"

Bill Burkett

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I want to thank everybody for their interest in my duck-hunting memoir, which was officially published this week in both ebook and paperback format.
I particularly appreciate your notifying HuntingMagazine.net (which I didn't know existed) because they contacted me to do a review. I'm hoping DU Magazine, Wildfowl and others also will review, but you never know.

This is the first volume of a three-book set; the hunting logs of almost sixty years of hunting covered more ground than I ever could have imagined when I started putting this together last year as a substitute for not being able to afford a duck hunting season. Most of the snippets I have posted here are from one or another volume--but some occurred to me after the publication was set. As you all know, there are so many many things to see, do, experience out in the cold and wet after waterfowl.

After all the rain we had here in Western Washington before the season, I thought sure I was missing a crackerjack opener. But I haven't heard a single volley from up the valley, and when I drove up to the club last weekend all the water had soaked into the water table and the fields were dry. I hope somebody somewhere in this area is getting into them. In the meantime I am living vicariously from your various posts from all over, reporting on early going. I really appreciate being able to share those moments, at least in your words. I recall a book named "the duck huntingest gentlemen" published a few years ago, before the internet, in which various hunters told their stories. This forum is the best thing I've seen since then. Maybe someday a competent editor will put all your stuff together into a volume for future generations to learn from and enjoy. I hope so!

In the meantime I'll still put an oar in from time to time with a brief reminiscence as a way of saying thanks for all the great stories and photos.
Bill Burkett
 
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