January 2023 Duck Hunt
Drew Blake, President, and Michael Fussell, Fundraising Director, hosted a Marine veteran (Daniel Smith) for his first duck hunt on January 12-15, 2023. The trip began under less then ideal conditions with Michael suffering a catastrophic boat trailer failure less than halfway through his trip down. Drew and Daniel started the trip with a roughly 3 mile kayak paddle up an eastern North Carolina river. They finally got to their hunt location around 8:30am and set up the spread. Shortly after setting up a huge flock of resident geese made swing though no shots were fired. After a long paddle back to the dock with sporadic scouting along the way Daniel and Drew enjoyed a dinner at a local restaurant before enjoying a night by the campfire at the Air B and B that they rented for the weekend. After calling everywhere possible, Michael decided to load up his brothers…