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Building the Ideal Waterfowling Flat-Bottom

May 14, 2012 • 1 comment

  It’s obvious aluminum boats are the toughest and offer the best utility for building the ideal blind, judging by…»

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Pintail

Bucks for Ducks: Increasing the Federal Stamp Price

May 14, 2012 • No comments

It’s been the talk of the waterfowl community for the past 10 years, but this time, it just may happen…»

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BANDED is set to launch its 2012 waterfowl lineup

Your BANDED: New Tactical Waterfowl Line

April 30, 2012 • No comments

If you watch Sportsman Channel at all, you’ve probably seen the BANDED commercials. You know, the ones with Chad Belding…»

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Conan gets in on some duck calling action

Conan O’Brien Tries Calling with Duck Dynasty Stars

April 13, 2012 • 4 comments

It’s refreshing to see more and more celebrities helping to bring the outdoors lifestyle to the mainstream. On Tuesday, late-night…»

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Klamath Basin Snow Geese

Disease Decimating California Waterfowl

April 5, 2012 • 3 comments

Editor’s note: This article was provided by the Western Outdoor News. Lack of water, and hence, lack of flooded marshland,…»

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Genzel BPS

Range Emotion: A Day With Browning’s Classic Pump Gun

March 22, 2012 • 9 comments

Full disclosure: for the last few years, I’ve been sitting in cubicles at various insurance companies, talking about synergy with…»

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Duck hunting

Hot Topic: Climate Change and Duck Season

March 12, 2012 • 11 comments

Anyone who was slapping mosquitoes in Stuttgart in late December, wondering what happened to duck season, was hardly alone. Blame…»

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Hope

Regaining Hope: Remembering My Best Hunting Dog

March 12, 2012 • 12 comments

Grape vines had overrun the empty chain-link kennel, deep grass claiming the inside. As I walked past it in my…»

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Busted poacher

Busted: Poacher Attempts to Break Every Game Law

February 29, 2012 • 11 comments

Why did the snow goose cross the road? To get shot in a wildlife refuge, evidently, at least in Delaware.…»

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The 2011 Federal Duck Stamp.

Duck Stamp Debate

February 22, 2012 • 15 comments

Do you want to pay more for your Federal Duck Stamp? We probably know the answer to that. But, it…»

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Snow goose pile

Early Snow Goose Shoot-Up: How to Decoy Snow Geese

February 13, 2012 • No comments

Hard to believe a week has passed since we did our part to save the arctic tundra, one load of…»

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Surprisingly, no geese landed on my blacktop spread.

Driveway Decoying

February 8, 2012 • 1 comment

My old man stood at the end of the driveway. He would wrench on that goose call for hours, my…»

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Frankenmallard

GREENHEAD…GREEN BODY? Mutant mallard!

January 25, 2012 • 13 comments

  This viral photo of a solid green Frankenmallard crossed our desk courtesy of biologist and WILDFOWL contributor Brad Fenson,…»

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Rice Pond Decoys

Blind Stories: ‘Be More Careful’

January 23, 2012 • 2 comments

Lately, I’ve been feeling like Bernie Lootz — at least in the goose blind. You know Lootz, a down-on-his-luck character…»

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Franchi Semi-Auto

Franchi Affinity has Small-Gauge Feel

January 19, 2012 • No comments

The brand new Franchi Affinity semiautomatic shotgun was introduced Tuesday at SHOT Show in Las Vegas. Available in both 12- and 20-gauge,…»

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Black Lab in ice

Determined Retriever Falls Through Ice, Still Gets Duck

January 13, 2012 • 1 comment

A scary situation turns into a victorious tale of a persevering chocolate Lab from Steve Osborn, a waterfowl hunter out…»

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Flock of geese

Illinois Geese Galore, But Not Always a Clear Shot

January 9, 2012 • 5 comments

It was finally cold enough to get in a good goose hunt here in central Illinois over New Year’s weekend,…»

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Seaducking

Wildfowl Reader Photos

December 20, 2011 • 3 comments

We know how passionate our readers are about hunting waterfowl, especially this time of year. So, we asked for some…»

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Ducks

Big Funding Cuts to Hurt Duck Production

December 20, 2011 • 4 comments

Congress is in a cutting mood and wetlands are on the chopping block. Facing a bleak economy, mounting debt and…»

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Lead shot

Lead Shot Still Controversial 20 Years Later

December 20, 2011 • 8 comments

For 20 years now, lead shot hasn’t legally left the barrel of a shotgun pointed at a duck or goose…»

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