Some of the best duck hunting in the Piedmont comes after the new year, when temperatures drop and conditions get borderline on whether you’ll be able to hunt because of the ice. The best part of late ...

I’ve been an onX Hunt user for well over a decade, and like many other hunters, I underutilize the app, especially for waterfowl pursuits. Most people download onX to view property borders and to ...

Texas duck hunters are hoping for some timely shots of winter weather in the next few weeks to push more birds southward ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays. The second split of the 2025-26 ...

It can be tough out there for the freelance duck hunter. Modern waterfowl migrations (and the weather that drives them) are unpredictable, there’s tough competition on many public marshes, and private ...

Duck hunters are traditional and proud of it. We’re also — how should I put this? — an opinionated lot. So by nature, we are susceptible to old myths. Certain ideas get passed around duck camps, ...

Big, hardy, and adaptable: the mallard duck is found all throughout the Western Hemisphere. Despite its international range, you can call the mallard America’s duck. Of all duck species, the mallard ...

Duck hunting used to be a grand tradition. It’s still a tradition, with strong ties to conservation of sensitive and important ecosystems. But it is fading. It’s been well known for some time that ...

On the last day of the 2025 duck season in the heart of Arkansas' premier duck country, longtime hunter Todd Taylor said the hunt just wasn't as good as previous years. Sitting in his boat in the ...

You’d think after his years serving our country, retired Navy SEAL Spencer Calvin had done enough. Ditto for all the volunteer years Jeff DeBlieux has given to Terrebonne Parish’s 4H. It wasn't enough ...