HISTORIC DUCK HUNTING STORIES THE GOLDEN AGE OF DUCK HUNTING

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  • Most duck hunters want to know what happened in the olden and golden days when the old timers pursued their love of duck hunting, but not everyone has the time nor patience to read through a bunch of books and outdoor journals. So, sit back and relax as a passionate duck hunter of 60 years, Wayne Capooth, author of eleven historical waterfowling books and outdoor writer, recaps from his 40 years of research the hidden riches and treasures of duck hunting by the old timers, who sadly have all passed away! The podcast will cover all facets of duck hunting.
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  • E57 HISTORY OF TRAP SHOOTING PART II

    E57 HISTORY OF TRAP SHOOTING PART II
    Jan 6 2025

    E57 is the history of trap shooting in the United States from its beginnings in the 1820s after the sport had cross the Atlantic Ocean from England. It goes from wild pigeon shooting to glass balls to clay targets, and listen as you will discover how trap shooting developed and progressed in America. E57 covers three famous trap shooters in the early days--Captain Adam Bogardus, Doc Carver, and Ira Paine. E57 picks up where trap shooting began in England. E58 will pick up where E57 leaves off and will be podcasted in the near future.
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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • E56 PIGEON AND CLAY TARGET SHOOTING ORIGIN PART I

    E56 PIGEON AND CLAY TARGET SHOOTING ORIGIN PART I
    Nov 30 2024
    let me tell you about the origin of trap shooting, which began in England. Reporting on sporting events in England began in the 1710s and 1720s, this at a time when the population of England began to double between 1700 and 1800, and a new leisure class of titled, gentry and upper-middling groups emerged. Wagering needed winners and losers, so wagering and gambling has long been ingrained in British society. Clearly hunting was a rural sport. But in pigeon shooting it attracted rural and city spectators, the landowning aristocracy and gentry, farmers, townfolks, and countrymen, even though the pigeon enclosure grounds could be a few miles outside a town. But it was innkeepers and tavernkeepers who contributed probably the most at its inception as they gained financial benefit form hosting pigeon shooting and they existed in taverns and inns up and down England for over a millennium, the best were located on turnpikes near large towns and cities, a turnpike being a road kept up in good shape by levying a toll on the user such as coaches and stages. In these establishments, wagering was generally associated with some form of sport such as horse racing, cockfighting, cricket, and pigeon shooting where the latter had an enclosure, along with their other functions of providing refreshments, food, lodging, meetings, and trade activities. Realizing the potential for revenue that could be generated, inns’ and taverns’ keepers began promoting many contests. The two played a highly significant commercial role, often helping arrange, advertise, and host pigeon-shooting matches. London was the key center for pigeon shooting and contests, tied to the inn-and tavern subculture, and aristocratic gambling patronage, and crowds were often large. It was wagering most especially the high stakes “wagers” between wealthy individuals on sporting contests that generated media coverage, wider spectator interest, a larger betting market, and growing numbers of events, increasingly on a commercial basis. Wagering encouraged the development of pigeon shooting rules and regulations in which to create “fair play” in gambling terms and to avoid subsequent disputes. For spectators, wagering provided a strong form of identification with the shooters and the sport. The wagering of the wealthy also gave real impetus to the emerging sport of pigeon shooting. It was a sport that required matching and eventually handicapping, which were attempts to equalize competition and create an uncertain outcome that encouraged wagering. In pigeon shooting, matching shooters was part of the ritual surrounding contests, encouraging status, honor, prestige, dignity, and respect. So, this preamble hopefully gives you the listener of my podcast some idea of the origin of pigeon shooting, of how it all started, along with its earliest development in England. And, in doing so, I believe you will marvel at how well they shot with the old, clumsy, untrustworthy, smoothbore, muzzleloading flintlocks using black powder, for when the shooter fired, there was an appreciable moment of time between the instant of pulling the trigger and the instant when the shot left the muzzle, and if the priming was damp or blown away by the wind, the gun could not be fired at all, and with black powder, which they used, shooting with a double barrel on a windless day, the smoke would hang in front of the muzzle and blind the shooter on many occasion preventing him from firing his second barrel. If that wasn’t enough, they had to hold the butt end of the gun below the elbow until the pigeon was on the wing. It seems a miracle that pigeon shooters could manage all these inferior weapons so effectively. let me attempt to tell you about the origin of trap shooting, which began in England. Furthermore, I must be forthright and tell you that the exact time when pigeon shooting and matches came into vogue that I have found no authentic records verifying such, as newspapers did not begin reporting on sporting events in England until in the 1710s and 1720s, this at a time when the population of England began to double between 1700 and 1800, and a new leisure class of titled, gentry and upper-middling groups emerged. Wagering needed winners and losers, so wagering and gambling has long been ingrained in British society. Clearly hunting was a rural sport. But in pigeon shooting it attracted rural and city spectators, the landowning aristocracy and gentry, farmers, townfolks, and countrymen, even though the pigeon enclosure grounds could be a few miles outside a town. But it was innkeepers and tavernkeepers who contributed probably the most at its inception as they gained financial benefit form hosting pigeon shooting and they existed in taverns and inns up and down England for over a millennium, the best were located on turnpikes near large towns and cities, a turnpike being a road kept up in good shape by levying a toll on the user such as coaches and stages. In these ...
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • E55 THE OLD HOME PLACE HERB PARSONS

    E55 THE OLD HOME PLACE HERB PARSONS
    Oct 25 2024

    A True magazine article that chronicled Herb’s accomplishments tagged him as the “Showman Shooter” and the moniker stuck.

    On the way to an exhibition, Herb would stop at a supermarket where he collected what he called his "groceries." He bought oranges, grapefruit, potatoes, cabbages, turnips, and several dozen eggs. Wherever he went, the town’s people were about to witness one of the greatest shooting exhibitions of all time—a combination of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, Annie Oakley, Doc Carver, P.T. Barnum and a Vaudeville comedy routine.

    In 55 frenzied minutes, Herb typically shot, non-stop, more than 15 Winchester firearms 52 different ways at more than 800 targets, scoring 99 percent on them. The ones he missed, he said, were “hens.”

    Herb was hired in 1929 by Winchester to be a salesman for the Mississippi territory. Winchester advertisements from the era called Herb the “Winchester Wizard.” He came to epitomize the idea that being good with a gun was a way to become a better man, and nothing could better illustrate just how valuable our Second Amendment really is to all Americans. Upon Herb’s early passing in 1959 at age 51, he had been a Winchester man for 30 years. His love of hunting and shooting was only surpassed by his devotion to family and church.
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    38 mins

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