As much as I dream of a good, fair chase hunt for elk(cow or bull, I'm more concerned with meat than trophies) my favorite hunt has to be early season ducks-sure, mostly teal and woodies, but they're not much bigger than a fist and moving at a high rate of speed-fun targets and lots of activity. Hopefully next month when season opens we'll be able to get my young nephew his first duck. He's been going along with us for 3 years, got his first gun last year(did great on rabbits) so hopefully he'll get up early enough to come with us for ducks this year-or maybe a goose later on-can't wait to see the look on the kid's face when he gets a bird that big.