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THIS IS THE STORY OF DUCK HUNTING IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY WHEN THE EUROPEANS SET FOOT IN THE NEW WORLD IN 1607, ARRIVING IN THE COASTAL AREAS TO SETTLE THE NEW WORLD WHICH WOULD BECOME AMERICA. HERE THEY FOUND AN ABUNDANCE OF GAME AND WATERFOWL THAT WAS BEYOND THEIR WILDEST IMAGINATIONS, DESCRIBED IN SUCH TERMS AS A "NATURE'S MASTERPIECE" OR A "HUNTER'S EDEN" OR A "HUNTER'S PARADISE." USING FLINTLOCK LONG FOWLING PIECES THEY "SHOT SETTING" AS "SHOOTING FLYING" OR WING SHOOTING, AS WE CALL IT, WAS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE DUE TO THE WEIGHT AND SIZE OF THE THEIR LONG FOWLERS. WING SHOOTING WOULD HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. EPISODE ONE OF MY PODCAST TELLS HOW THE INDIANS WERE THE FIRST MARKET HUNTERS, AS THE COLONISTS DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO HUNT WATERFOWL, FOR IN THEIR COUNTRIES, ESPECIALLY ENGLAND, ONLY THE NOBILITY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO HUNT AND ALL OTHERS HAD TO POACH IF THEY HUNTED AT ALL. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO COMPREHEND WHAT THEY WITNESSED AS WATERFOWL WAS HERE IN SUCH NUMBERS THAT THE COLONISTS EVEN HAD TROUBLE DESCRIBING IT, WITH MANY HISTORIANS STATING THAT WHAT THEY WROTE WAS HYPERBOLE. AS TIME WENT ON IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, THE COLONISTS LEARNED HOW TO HUNT, FOR THEY HAD TO IN ORDER TO SUPPLEMENT THEIR DINNER TABLE UNTIL THEY COULD RAISE ENOUGH CROPS AND ANIMALS TO DO SO. UNTIL THEN THEY RELIED ON THE INDIANS.
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THIS IS THE STORY OF DUCK HUNTING IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY WHEN THE EUROPEANS SET FOOT IN THE NEW WORLD IN 1607, ARRIVING IN THE COASTAL AREAS TO SETTLE THE NEW WORLD WHICH WOULD BECOME AMERICA. HERE THEY FOUND AN ABUNDANCE OF GAME AND WATERFOWL THAT WAS BEYOND THEIR WILDEST IMAGINATIONS, DESCRIBED IN SUCH TERMS AS A "NATURE'S MASTERPIECE" OR A "HUNTER'S EDEN" OR A "HUNTER'S PARADISE." USING FLINTLOCK LONG FOWLING PIECES THEY "SHOT SETTING" AS "SHOOTING FLYING" OR WING SHOOTING, AS WE CALL IT, WAS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE DUE TO THE WEIGHT AND SIZE OF THE THEIR LONG FOWLERS. WING SHOOTING WOULD HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. EPISODE ONE OF MY PODCAST TELLS HOW THE INDIANS WERE THE FIRST MARKET HUNTERS, AS THE COLONISTS DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO HUNT WATERFOWL, FOR IN THEIR COUNTRIES, ESPECIALLY ENGLAND, ONLY THE NOBILITY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO HUNT AND ALL OTHERS HAD TO POACH IF THEY HUNTED AT ALL. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO COMPREHEND WHAT THEY WITNESSED AS WATERFOWL WAS HERE IN SUCH NUMBERS THAT THE COLONISTS EVEN HAD TROUBLE DESCRIBING IT, WITH MANY HISTORIANS STATING THAT WHAT THEY WROTE WAS HYPERBOLE. AS TIME WENT ON IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, THE COLONISTS LEARNED HOW TO HUNT, FOR THEY HAD TO IN ORDER TO SUPPLEMENT THEIR DINNER TABLE UNTIL THEY COULD RAISE ENOUGH CROPS AND ANIMALS TO DO SO. UNTIL THEN THEY RELIED ON THE INDIANS.

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