Duck Hunting Memories

by Adam Brassfield Do you remember the first time that you went duck hunting? Well I was thinking the other day about my first trip to the duck hole. It took me a minute but it started coming back to me, my duck hunting memories. I was 9 years old growing up in Northeast Arkansas [...]

Saskatchewan Launches New Conservation Program

Via Delta Waterfowl News – Duck Hunting Conservation Conservation in Saskatchewan is about to take a giant leap forward. Four rural municipalities in the Wascana Creek and Qu’Appelle River watersheds announced today they will introduce the Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS) conservation program. Following months of development work, the rural municipalities of South Qu’Appelle, Indian [...]

Dog Marsh Dog

By: Bill Fontaine What is Dog Marsh Dog?  “There is a part of the Louisiana marsh that is so deep, so muddy, so full of ‘gators, and so full snakes that you send the dog to retrieve the birds and we call it a Dog marsh. A dog that retrieves in that hell hole is [...]

2011 Breeding Waterfowl Habitat Conditions Released

Delta Waterfowl Release Duck hunters will find plenty to cheer about in the annual breeding population and habitat survey, which was released earlier today. Conducted each May by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canadian Wildlife Service, this year’s survey reveals the second-highest pond count and a record 45.6 million ducks, the most [...]

Vermont Duck Hunting

By Cam MacKugler When you think about it, waterfowl hunting is pretty simple, perhaps the most simplistic type of hunting you can do. Really, you just need to hide from the ducks, throw out some decoys and sound like a duck, and chances are you will come home with at least one bird. Overall duck [...]

Field Mallard Hunting

By Chris Hustad There’s a lot of different ways to hunt ducks. You can field hunt, open water hunt, hunt shallow potholes, hunt flooded timber, pass shoot refuges, etc. etc. Every state has it’s own unique landscape, it’s own flyways, it’s own style of hunting. This philosophy definitely applies to duck hunting in North Dakota. [...]

Greenhead Mallards

By Doug Leier North Dakota has such an array of duck species nesting in the state there’s a good chance most hunters will remember a teal, gadwall, pintail or shoveler as their first duck and instead of a mallard. And there’s nothing wrong with that, nothing wrong with bragging about the first duck regardless of [...]

Waterfowler Innovations Raising the Bar in Duck Hunting

Waterfowl hunting is changing in a hurry.  One only has to look back a couple decades when there was limited gear options to where we stand today where the options are endless.  Most products come and go but some have come along and changed the game, and a new company, Waterfowler Innovations, is trying to [...]

Choke Tube Decisions

Shotgun Patterning: Things to Consider By Chase Moore For any waterfowl hunter, whether it be the once a year guy, the weekend warrior, or the seasoned guide, nothing could be more disappointing than having a bird work into your spread and when the time comes to shoot, you miss all three shots. Well, I guess [...]

Cold Weather Duck Hunting

Perseverance, Cold Weather and Good Company By Chase Moore Whether good or bad, we’ve all had at least one memorable hunt we will simply never forget. Accompanying these memories are usually the folks you spend the hunt with, the circumstances both leading up to and throughout the hunt, and the end result. One hunt from [...]

Duck Boat Camo Stencils

By Drew Hall I’ve always searched for good stencils and never been able to find them. So, I decided to make some. It’ll take an hour or so to cut them out once you’ve printed them, but it’ll be worth it in the end. All in all its a four to five step process, depending [...]

Shotshell Reloading – How to on Shotgun Reloading Steel

By Robert MacKillop “Rob MacK” I have put together this information to help those who would like to start loading their own steel shot loads but are not sure how to start. These steps and tools are the basic ingredients I use to produce my shells. Others may have different ways of doing business but [...]