Waterfowl Hunting(Page 2)

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Nash Buckingham Once Shot a 25-Black-Duck Limit (and 8 Geese) During the Glory Days of Waterfowl Hunting

By Nash Buckingham

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Waterfowl Hunting

Want to Improve Your Wingshooting This Fall? Change Up Your Summer Training

By Alex Robinson

A hunting dog retrieves a mallard duck from the water.

Waterfowl Hunting

Prime Day Deals for Your Hunting Dog: Collars, Training Gear, First Aid Kits, and More

By Alice Jones Webb

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Nash Buckingham on the Most Memorable Wingshots of His Career

By Nash Buckingham

A truck falls backward over the edge of a cliff

My Dog and I Were Trapped in My Sinking Pickup

These are the best duck calls for beginners.

The Best Duck Calls for Beginners, Tested and Reviewed

By Alex Robinson

An illustration of a boy hunting cranes

Waterfowl Hunting

I Was the Youngest Duck Poacher in Saskatchewan

A flock of mallards and a lone pintail on a river in winter.

Waterfowl Hunting

Kansas Gov. Vetoes Bill to Limit Nonresident Waterfowlers to Hunting Just 3 Days a Week

Tales of Spring Subsistence Hunting in the Arctic: Bot Fly Larva, Caribou Fetus, and Boiled Eiders

By Scott Haugen

A black lab retrieves a duck in water.

How to Train a Duck Dog Throughout His First Hunting Season

By Natalie Krebs

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Waterfowl Hunting

The 10 Gauge: Everything Hunters Need to Know

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Podcast: I Nearly Died on a Duck Hunt

By Alex Robinson

The Beretta A390 and SBE3 left eject.

Waterfowl Hunting

Benelli vs. Beretta: Which Italian Shotgun Maker Is Your Favorite?

How to call ducks and geese.

Goose Hunting Tips and Tactics

By Joe Genzel, Alex Robinson

A man fires one of the best semi auto shotguns.

The Best Duck Hunting Shotguns of 2025

By Joe Genzel, Alex Robinson

A screenshot of Don Jr. or Donald Trump Jr. beside a ruddy shelduck.

Waterfowl Hunting

An Anti-Hunting Politician Accused Donald Trump Jr. of Shooting a Protected Duck in Italy. Here’s the Backstory

By Natalie Krebs

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7 Hunting Buddies Died in the American Airlines Plane Crash. They Were Returning from a Duck Hunt

By Natalie Krebs

A sunset over Holloman Lake.

Waterfowl Hunting

After Record Levels of Cancer-Causing Chemicals Were Found in a New Mexico Lake, Hunters Are Urged to Contact Their Doctors

Sandhill cranes coming in for a landing

Waterfowl Hunting

In Wisconsin, Home of the Sandhill Crane Recovery, Legislators Are Now Considering a Hunt

By Andrew McKean

An illustration of a duck hunter paddling in a windswept lake.

Why Duck Hunters Die

By Alex Robinson

Two Irish hunters crawl after curlew in an illustration.

I Moved to Ireland, Where Snipe are the Ultimate Game Bird

Author setting up the best duck decoys.

The Best Duck Decoys of 2025

By Alex Robinson

If you can't get access to the field geese are feeding in, you must get under them.

How to Hunt Late-Season Canada Geese When You Can’t Get on the X

Breda B3.5SM Review: The Italian Shotgun You Haven’t Heard of, But Should Know About

By Alex Robinson

How to Handle and Freeze Birds You Plan to Mount, According to a Taxidermist

By Natalie Krebs

best motion duck decoys

The Best Motion Duck Decoys, Field Tested and Reviewed

By Alex Robinson

A hunter with a rooster and his dog.

Waterfowl Hunting

Podcast: How to Miss Fewer Birds

By Natalie Krebs

A duck hunter shakes his fist at a sky full of ducks.

It Should’ve Been the Best Mallard Hunt of Our Lives. Instead, We Almost Died

By James D. Nunnally

The Best Duck Hunting Jackets of 2025

By Alex Robinson

Author setting up the best duck decoys.

How to Decoy Ducks: Expert Tips and Tactics for Finishing Birds Close

By Alex Robinson, Joe Arterburn

A painting of a brown Chesapeake Bay Retrieve on a yellow background.

The Duck Dog Who Wouldn’t Quit, Even If It Killed Him

A pair of mallards dabble bottoms-up in a pond.

What Do Ducks Eat? Here’s What Every Waterfowl Hunter Should Know

By Alice Jones Webb

Author holds tundra swan on a boat.

Waterfowl Hunting

Why Hunt Swans? Among Other Reasons, It’s Wicked Fun

By Ashley Thess

A successful morning of teal hunting.

How to Hunt Ducks

A close-up of a gray wolf in the woods.

Wisconsin Duck Hunter Shoots, Kills One of Five Gray Wolves That Surrounded His Blind

mallards flying in the blue sky

Waterfowl Hunting

Where Are All the Ducks?

By Natalie Krebs

Hunters in an old stone house they used as a goose blind.

The 8 Wildest Duck and Goose Blinds (That Actually Work)

Early-Season Teal Hunting Tactics You’ve Never Tried (But Should)

Early-Season Teal Hunting Tactics You’ve Never Tried (But Should)

Mallards and pintails

Mallard Numbers Are Up This Year, Plus Duck Hunters Might See a 3-Pintail Limit Next Season

By Natalie Krebs

A bird that died of avian botulism.

Waterfowl Hunting

Hundreds of Ducks Dead Amid Reports of Avian Flu and Botulism at Two Critical California Refuges

A chocolate Lab was beaten by his owner, a 15 year old.

3 Teens Arrested After Viral Video Surfaces of a Kid Abusing His Duck Dog

By Natalie Krebs

The best hunting dogs include English setters.

Waterfowl Hunting

The Best Hunting Dogs for Birds, Big and Small Game, and Tracking

By Natalie Krebs, Brian Lynn

An anti-hunting activist in bright clothing stands on top of a vehicle at a public boat ramp in Australia.

During Australia’s Duck Season ‘Circus’ Anti-Hunting Activists Will Steal Your Birds, Paddle Through Your Decoys, and Film Your Kids

Story and Photos by Natalie Krebs

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Waterfowl Hunting

What Distance Should Be Used to Pattern a Shotgun? (And Everything Else to Know About Patterning)

By Andrea Bogard

Mike Wec with his leucistic American black duck.

No, It’s Not a Game-Farm Mallard. DNA Test Confirms First-Ever Documented Leucistic Black Duck

By Natalie Krebs

Male mallard duck in flight sets record speed.

Migrating Mallard Clocked at 103 MPH, Breaking Recent Speed Record

Mallards resting on an NWR

Proposed Rule Could Curb Predator Control and Planting Grains for Waterfowl in Refuges. Hunting Orgs Now Wonder, Is USFWS Turning Against Duck Hunters?

By Andrew McKean

A flock of Canada geese takes off from a snowy river bank.

A Stretch of the Yellowstone River Long-Closed to Waterfowl Hunting Might Reopen Soon. Some Hunters Aren’t Thrilled

Rue Mapp scouts for ducks

Rue Mapp Is Learning to Hunt, But She’s Got a Bigger Mission

By Christine Peterson

Waterfowl Hunting

The onX Effect: Digital Mapping Apps Have Changed the Way We Hunt. Now What Will They Do With All Our Data?

By Christine Peterson

Group of hunters posing in front of the best snow goose decoys.

The Best Snow Goose Decoys of 2025

Hunters line up for a duck blind lottery in darkness. Photo by Tom Fowlks

Waterfowl Hunting

Can Hunting Survive in California? And If It Can’t, Who’s Going to Pay to Conserve the State’s Wildlife and Habitat?

Story by Christine Peterson, Photographs by Tom Fowlks

Three plucked birds sit on a table after a demonstration of how to pluck a duck.

How to Pluck a Duck

By Natalie Krebs

Dead snow geese with avian influenza are frozen into a lake.

The Story Behind the Snow Goose Mass Die-Off Video

We tested the Spandau Arms S2.

Spandau Arms S2 Review: Field Testing a $500 Semi-Auto Duck Gun

By Ashley Thess

Hand carved decoys

Photos: The Iconic Hand-Carved Decoys of the Illinois River Valley

the best duck loads

The Best Duck Loads, Range Tested and Reviewed

By Alex Robinson

the best chokes for duck hunting

The Best Chokes for Duck Hunting, Range Tested and Reviewed

By Alex Robinson

the best goose decoys

Best Goose Decoys of 2025

By Alex Robinson, Joe Genzel

The best duck calls for waterfowl hunting.

The Best Duck Calls of 2025

Hunter using one of the best goose calls.

The Best Goose Calls of 2025

By Joe Genzel, John Gordon

duck hunter walks towards foreground decoys through ankle-deep water covered in red vegetation, sprawling trees behind

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

By Alex Robinson

A jet sled for duck hunting

The Ultimate Walk-In Duck Hunting Gear I Can’t Live Without

Two hunters, man and woman, sit on a rock next to a limit of king ducks.

The Favorite Shotgun, Choke, and Ammo Combinations of 5 Diehard Duck Hunters (and One Outdoor Writer)