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If one of your biggest passions involves hunting small game, you’re in the right place. Our small game hunting videos and articles will provide you with key insights and information on how and when to hunt your small-sized quarry, and more effectively put you hot on the trail of sought-after squirrels, rabbits, pheasants & doves.

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[VIDEO] How To Find A Waterfowl Outfitter

Waterfowl Mossy Oak ProStaff member Cory Dukehart shares tips on how to find a waterfowl outfitter. Cory shares what things you need to learn and do before booking a trip.

Small Game, Waterfowl

D.I.Y. Duck Ponds

So many land owners are closer to a waterfowl hot spot than they realize. If you have a beaver pond, low area that floods, or a spot that you can regulate the water level with the use of a pump and blocking a culvert, you can have awesome waterfowl hunting. Managing your property for another game species can dramatically increase its value, and duck hunting is a sport that can be enjoyed with family and

Small Game, Waterfowl, How-To

What about the Birds?

Wildlife management and green field plantings don’t have to be a one trick pony. In many places, green fields and wildlife plantings primarily are established to provide food for deer and harvest opportunities for hunters. However, your green fields can be more than just deer magnets. You also can use a green-field management program to provide food and habitat for wild birds, including turkeys, other wild birds and game birds.

Small Game, Conservation, How-To

Exciting Hunting When the Snows Come Down This February and March

The best snow goose hunting is in the northwestern part of Tennessee in the Reelfoot area, or we can go across the Mississippi River and hunt in northeast Arkansas, where the snow goose season is February 2 through April 25, 2015. I have several friends and Mossy Oak ProStaff members who live in Arkansas, so I often go there to hunt snow geese with them. To have a successful snow goose hunt requires a lot

Small Game, Waterfowl, Mossy Oak, Firearm

What about Hunting Geese?

Our flyway goose season is set-up to run concurrent with our duck season and usually ends the around the 24th of January. Most of the Canada geese we have in Kentucky are resident geese. For the most part, the Canada goose migration rarely comes any further south than the middle of Illinois. For us to get any geese in Tennessee, the weather has to be really cold.

Small Game, Waterfowl, Mossy Oak

Kentucky Lake and Reelfoot Lake Have Ducks Aplenty

The big water that I hunt is Kentucky Lake, and I like hunting a 400-acre soybean field there that floods during duck season. To hunt the bean field, we use a cotton trailer as a blind. The cotton trailer is a big, open trailer that cotton is dumped into that takes cotton from the field to the cotton gins. We have our cotton trailer blind parked right alongside a river that’s one of the major

Small Game, Waterfowl

The Freeze Line and Waterfowl Hunting

Browse the latest article on cold weather waterfowl hunting, at Mossy Oak. Check out tips and learn how to hunt ducks in the cold weather successfully!

Small Game, Waterfowl

Hunting Waterfowl on the Mississippi Flyway

The early season on the Mississippi flyway in 2014 was really good for waterfowling. We had some cold weather right before Thanksgiving that brought a large number of ducks down for the opening week of waterfowl season. Quite a few hunters reported taking limits of ducks on opening weekend, but after Thanksgiving the weather stabilized, and our area has had a fairly warm winter.

Small Game, Waterfowl

How to Hunt Resident and Flyway Geese

When you're hunting on the Eastern Shore for migrating flyway Canada geese, you'll be competing with many other hunters who want to take those same geese. I believe there’s strength in numbers when hunting geese, especially when you're hunting places with high hunter pressure. So, we’ll put out big spreads of 14- to 16-dozen decoys. Our spread will include full-body decoys, windsocks and silhouettes.

Small Game, Waterfowl, Mossy Oak Shadow Grass Blades, How-To, Mossy Oak

Should You Hunt Resident or Flyway Geese?

Maryland goose hunting is famous all over the country. Most of the hunters who come to Maryland to hunt geese hunt the Eastern Shore. The Eastern Shore geese are the Atlantic flyway geese. But on the western shore, there are a large number of resident geese, and they have very little hunting pressure. There are positives and negatives for hunting both sides of Maryland, and I’ll try to explain it to you the best I

Small Game, Waterfowl, Mossy Oak

Cory Dukehart Tells about Maryland’s Resident Geese

The history of Maryland goose hunting is really strange. Back in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Maryland was a hot bed for goose hunting. In those early days, waterfowl hunters believed that there was an endless supply of ducks and geese coming down the flyway. They believed the birds they shot every year were replaced with more birds the next year.

Small Game, Waterfowl, Firearm

What Is a Sea Duck and How Do You Hunt Them?

Get the latest tips on sea duck hunting at Mossy Oak. Check out the latest techniques and learn how to hunt sea ducks over open water successfully today!

Small Game, Waterfowl, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Hunting Ducks and Geese of Maryland

Our duck season in Maryland starts in October, lasts about 1-1/2-weeks and then closes. It begins again in December and runs through the end of January. We shoot a lot of puddle ducks like mallards, pintails and black ducks. Black ducks are kind of special to our area up here on the Chesapeake Bay. Many waterfowlers west of Maryland don’t see numbers of black ducks, which resemble hen mallards.

Small Game, Waterfowl, Mossy Oak

ProStaffer Mario Friendy: Snows to the South

We have very few snow geese coming through the portion of Oregon where I live. So when I want to hunt snow geese, I go to either southern Oregon or the areas around Sacramento, California. Weather determines how good or bad the snow goose hunting will be. If those areas have had lots of dry weather, we hunt dry grain fields and/or dry rice fields. If there’s a normal amount of rainfall, we hunt the

Small Game, Waterfowl, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Seven Different Species of Canada Geese - the Good and Bad News

In our zone, we have seven different species of Canada geese - Vancouver, Western, Lesser Canada Goose, Greater White-Fronted goose, Taverner, Dusky and Cackling. That’s the good news. But all these geese are the same color. The geese vary in size, bill length and chest color. The bad news is that you cannot shoot the Dusky Canada goose, since it’s protected in Oregon.

Small Game, Waterfowl, Firearm