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Best Goose Decoys of 2023

By: Alex Robinson, Joe Genzel

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Goose Hunting Tips and Tactics

By: Joe Genzel, Alex Robinson

North Dakota Is Poised to Have Its Best Diver Duck Season in Decades. But Mallard Numbers Keep Declining Conservation

North Dakota Is Poised to Have Its Best Diver Duck Season in Decades. But Mallard Numbers Keep Declining

By: Katie Hill

Good News for Duck Hunters: Mallard Limit in the Atlantic Flyway Returns to Four Duck Hunting

Good News for Duck Hunters: Mallard Limit in the Atlantic Flyway Returns to Four

By: Dac Collins

This Old-School Duck Slayer Is Opening New Hunting Opportunities Around the World for Americans Conservation

This Old-School Duck Slayer Is Opening New Hunting Opportunities Around the World for Americans

By: Alex Robinson

Hunters Were Making Duck-Bone Bird Calls 12,000 Years Ago Hunting

Hunters Were Making Duck-Bone Bird Calls 12,000 Years Ago

By: Dac Collins

Some Hunters Target Trumpeter Swans. Utah Wants to Stop It Before All Swan Hunting Gets Shut Down Conservation

Some Hunters Target Trumpeter Swans. Utah Wants to Stop It Before All Swan Hunting Gets Shut Down

By: Andrew McKean

Hunting License Sales Have Fallen Back to Pre-Pandemic Levels Big Game Hunting

Hunting License Sales Have Fallen Back to Pre-Pandemic Levels

By: Natalie Krebs

Landowner in “I Own the F*cking Land” Video Takes Plea Deal Duck Hunting

Landowner in “I Own the F*cking Land” Video Takes Plea Deal

By: Dac Collins

Manitoba Is About to Get Way Less Accessible for American Waterfowlers Conservation

Manitoba Is About to Get Way Less Accessible for American Waterfowlers

By: Katie Hill

Watch an Arkansas Farmer Deliberately Disc a Spread of Snow Goose Decoys Goose Hunting

Watch an Arkansas Farmer Deliberately Disc a Spread of Snow Goose Decoys

By: Dac Collins

Is Steel Shot Effective? Here’s What the Data Say After Decades of Testing Ammo

Is Steel Shot Effective? Here’s What the Data Say After Decades of Testing

By: Tom Roster

How to Train a Duck Dog Throughout His First Hunting Season Duck Hunting

How to Train a Duck Dog Throughout His First Hunting Season

By: Natalie Krebs

After Duck Hunters Flip Their Kayaks, Indiana Game Warden Recovers Shotguns with a Magnet Duck Hunting

After Duck Hunters Flip Their Kayaks, Indiana Game Warden Recovers Shotguns with a Magnet

By: Katie Hill

The Best Duck Hunting Jackets of 2023 Duck Hunting

The Best Duck Hunting Jackets of 2023

By: Alex Robinson

Sitka Hudson Jacket: A Hardcore Shell for Waterfowl Hunters Duck Hunting

Sitka Hudson Jacket: A Hardcore Shell for Waterfowl Hunters

By: Ashley Thess

The Golden Age of Jump-Shooting Ducks on the Prairie Duck Hunting

The Golden Age of Jump-Shooting Ducks on the Prairie

By: Ben East

Canada’s Semi-Automatic Firearm Ban Would Include Many Common Hunting Rifles and Shotguns Big Game Hunting

Canada’s Semi-Automatic Firearm Ban Would Include Many Common Hunting Rifles and Shotguns

By: Dac Collins

28 Gauge Benelli Super Black Eagle 3 Review Duck Hunting

28 Gauge Benelli Super Black Eagle 3 Review

By: Alex Robinson

Best Duck Calls for Beginners Duck Hunting

Best Duck Calls for Beginners

By: Alex Robinson

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