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Practice your duck ID even in the offseason
On our trip across Wyoming a while back, my wife and I stopped for a while in Hot Springs State Park. Down where the Big Spring runs into the Bighorn River, there’s a wide, slow […]
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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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If I were a duck, I’d be in great shape
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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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 […]
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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 […]
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There are plenty of public places for waterfowl
Waterfowl hunting has become more of a private land activity in the last decade or so. A lot of waterfowlers have resorted to leasing blinds on ponds and in farm fields. That’s a great way […]
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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 […]
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Waterfowl hunting is a money pit
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 […]