“After school 8 or 10 of us would go to the fields and kill ducks until the sun went down.”
With us, it was pheasant season. Probably 50-75 of us would rush out at the end of school, so we could spend that short time between that and sundown driving out of town and walking the ditches and cornrows, so there were at least that many shotguns plus a few rifles in the cars in the lot.
I know. It was fun. We never had issues. We had discipline in school quite severe doscipline .