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Identify your duck before you shoot
Waterfowl hunting is a lot of fun, and ducks and geese can make for great meals. But it’s not very hard to screw up when you’re duck hunting. A former game warden once told me […]
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Nobody ever said duck hunting is cheap
A friend of mine recently asked me what he’d need to get started hunting ducks. He’s pretty well-off, and he asked if money were no object, what would I get? The first thing that came […]
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A good waterfowl blind doesn’t have to be cushy
A goose blind can be anything from a burlap sack you pull over yourself to a concrete bunker you’ve constructed in a field or on the edge of a marsh. The burlap sack has two […]
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There’s plenty of hunting this time of year
The holiday season is upon us. It’s a time of joy and celebration, as you rush from store to store, spending all your money on gifts for loved ones. Maybe even a few gifts for […]
Great Outdoors
If you’re hunting waterfowl, know your ducks
Waterfowl hunting is a lot of fun, and ducks and geese can make for great meals. But it’s not very hard to screw up when you’re duck hunting. A former game warden once told me […]
Great Outdoors
Nobody ever said duck hunting was cheap
A friend of mine recently asked me what he’d need to get started hunting ducks. He’s pretty well-off, and he asked if money were no object, what would I get? The first thing that came […]
Great Outdoors
You don’t need the Taj Mahal of duck blinds
A goose blind can be anything from a burlap sack you pull over yourself to a concrete bunker you’ve constructed in a field or on the edge of a marsh. The burlap sack has two […]
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It turns out fat may be a positive survival trait
The Ducks Unlimited newsletter arrived in my email inbox the other day, and there was a story about waterfowl in it that made me wish, at least for a moment, that I were I duck. […]
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I need to get back out in the duck marsh soon
There are a number of reasons I haven’t hunted waterfowl as aggressively as I did when I was younger. The main reason is my lack of a good retriever. I had a two good retrievers […]
Great Outdoors
Identify your ducks before you shoot
Waterfowl hunting is a lot of fun, and ducks and geese can make for great meals. But it’s not very hard to screw up when you’re duck hunting. A former game warden once told me […]