How to Whistle Ducks

If you were to take a 30,000-foot view of the duck hunting industry, you’d see a lot of big-production hunts. You’d notice plenty of flat-bottom boats loaded with bags of decoys and shaking retrievers, field hunts with spreads that cost more than a semester at a State school, and dreamy timber...

The half hour before sunrise is the favorite time of the day for most duck hunters, and for good reason: there’s a flurry of activity as the marsh wakes up and many birds move from their roost to their feed. But that quick action is commonly followed by a long lull, sending many duck hunters packing...

When Duck Lore host Sean Weaver couldn’t make the trip to hunt waterfowl in Kansas last fall, Seth Morris and I took his place. Now we don’t quite have the calling and decoying chops that Sean has, but we can jump shoot birds with the best of them. Jump shooting is a good move to pull out of the bag...