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Youth
Duck & Pheasant Hunt Program 2024 Hello
All, I hope this finds you all well.
I
just wanted to give a quick shout out and "thank you" to all of
you that participated in last Saturdays LEC Youth Pheasant Hunt
at Kents Island WMA, it was a great success, again.
Thanks
to Pat Baker, our Youth Hunt Chairman, for running and
coordinated everything from the dog handlers, Pheasant pick up,
and seminar/ qualifying shoot. Patrick and his team of
volunteers do a great job!
Thank
you, Paige and Nolan, for helping with Pheasant stocking before
and during the hunt. This was Paige's first-time stocking, I
hope you had fun, and Nolan's yearly stocking adventure, but
better than that he was able to take part in this year's hunt
also. He did a great job at both, and I think he like's stocking
better, just guessing.
Kagan,
Kenny, Mark, and all the other dog handlers did a great job,
even given the rainy weather, the birds didn't want to fly, and
the dogs were pretty wet and tired by the end of the day but
kept on hunting until the end.
All
the hunters had a "safe" hunt our number 1 priority, all that
enter the fields return safely out of the fields, including
parents, mentors, and dogs!
Everyone
harvested birds except for one young hunter who had multiple
opportunities, but just couldn't connect. They all had a good
hunt, a little bit wetter than normal, hopefully we have the
same kind of rainy weather for next Month's LEC Youth Duck hunt
up at Parker River on October 19th.
Thanks
to Mass Wildlife and The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at
Parker River for your continuing support of the LEC Youth
Hunting programs, without you and all of our volunteers these
programs would have ended a very long time ago.
Which
brings me to another Youth hunt program Milestone. once again,
this year we have had a family of 3 generations on these hunts,
before it was the Baker family, father, kids and grandchildren.
this year it is the Stokes family, Brendan Stokes(dad), brought
both Kegan and Paige many years ago on the youth hunts, now
Brendan has brought his grandson Nolan on the Youth Pheasant
Hunt! Kegan had his Sergeants test on Saturday and was unable to
attend, I'm sure you did great on that too.Ê
This
is an example of how important these programs are to us as the
hunting community to bring the next and future generations of
sportsmen and sportswomen into the field of hunting.Ê
Paige
had her son with her on Saturday, another generation.
Hank
has a great program for young Olympic shooters, including his
son Hank Jr. who has been all over the country and world hunting
and shooting in competition's, it's just fantastic.Ê
We
have been lucky, in this state, to continue these programs for
so long since 1965, I hope they will last for many more
generations and young hunters.
Thanks
again to everyone,
Mike
Robinson
LEC
President
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 Interested in participating in the youth duck & pheasant hunt program in 2025? Anyone
interested in the youth pheasant hunt conducted by the Essex
League of Sportsman in conjunction with Masswildlife the
deadline to register for this program is 8/31. Those
interested go to Masswildlife website under the young adult
pheasant hunt click registration to register this is a free
program of the dates listed the 9/17 is the only required
one to come to prior to the hunt as that is the date we have
the required orientation. Those who have shot and qualified
in the past arenÕt required to shoot again but are welcome
and encouraged to do so if they choose canÕt hurt for a
little more practice. Hope to see you all there.
Participants will need to attend qualifying and a brief seminar, prerequisites are having passed hunter Ed course. Participants must be 14 or older. If 15 or older, one must have valid FID for the pheasant hunt. Waterfowl hunt has the same prerequisites, butÊages 12-17 will be admitted. Potential 2024 participants should contact Pat Baker at 978-360-3458, or email kjsp123@comcast.net |
