The Wild Life

Originally Posted at Good Hunt . I’m not sure if I should blame Obama or Phil Robertson for the difficulty in finding duck hunting ammuni...

With duck hunting it is not too difficult to spill the banks of the written laws. Now, if you’re unlicensed and make a hobby out of sh...

“Well, that’s about enough of this BS,” I said as I wrapped the magnum bluebill decoys and shot-put them towards the shore. It’s not like I’...

As I wrote in my last post , Travis and I had set up in a little slime pond hoping to bust a few beaks the morning after Christmas. We’d kno...

The pre-dawn morning after Christmas, Travis and I snuck out to a wet-weather slime pond with a handful of decoys, a teal Mojo, and palm fro...

Duck hunting is a lot like bottom fishing a reef or wreck. You get your spot, toss out some baits – in our case, decoys – and await the acti...

At age 31, I’ve decided to call ducks. Never owned a call. Never had much desire to. But I feel - as an outdoorsman of the highest esteem - ...

I pity those who have never intentionally hunted mergansers. The omens were all there for a spectacular weekend of shooting. The wildlife wa...

After a year hiatus, the Sea Duck Tournament resumes this weekend. A taste of 2009's event. Posted February 2009. That old maxim, “don’t...

Some of us hunted Lake Okeechobee. Some of us hunted STA 3/4. All of us piled up the ducks. South Florida is really a fantastic destination ...

I know what I was thankful for Thursday morning – no one was videotaping our shoot. The first four ducks – a pair of ringnecks and a pair of...

Travis and I had arrived at STA 3/4 just before the 5 am mark when the ranger would start handing unused tags to the throngs of hopefuls lin...

Why do they make you sign your name across the Federal Duck Stamp? I mean, each year dozens of artists compete for the honor to display thei...

I’ve been accused of being awfully whiny this hunting season. Things just haven’t gone well thanks to one obstacle or another. Some plans we...