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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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How to Get Ready for Waterfowl Season

As some cooler weather settles in during mid to late November, many waterfowlers like Mossy Oak Pro, Richie McKnight, of Dawson Springs, Kentucky, are getting geared up for the upcoming waterfowl season.

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Harold Knight Uses His Fiddle Knowledge to Build a World Champion Goose Call

In the 1970s, I made a tube turkey call out of a plastic pill bottle with latex rubber over half of the bottle. I always had a deep passion and love of calling animals - any kind of animal. I was playing around with this pill bottle turkey call and got a goose sound out of it. So I bought thicker latex and began to work with the pill bottle to make a goose call,

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Academy Gets You Ready for Dove Season with the Game Winner Vest

Great for the avid hunter, the Game Winner Men's Deluxe Dove Vest features a water-repellant, zip-down game bag that allows simple removal of birds and easy cleaning. Made of 100-percent polyester for comfort and durability, this vest is designed with a breathable mesh lining, adjustable side snaps, padded shoulders to protect against recoil and two storage pockets to keep your essentials nearby.

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Bill Daniels Calls the Shots for Louisiana Ducks and Geese

During the last few weeks of duck season, we change up our tactics. By then, we’re often hunting yoyo ducks - ducks that have migrated from the north to southern Louisiana. Once a warm front comes through, they migrate back toward northwest Louisiana. These ducks have seen northern blind set-ups and decoys, and they’ve heard southern callers and seen their set-ups and decoys. Ducks at the end-of-the-season are the most highly-educated ducks that we hunt

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Snow Geese Are Tough to Harvest

I'm often asked about hunting snow geese. Generally, we don’t hunt snow geese during duck season. When snow geese come in, they have certain fields where they want to light. If they light in a field we don’t have permission to hunt, we’re just out of luck, because those snow geese will stay in one field, until they’ve eaten all the food there. Then, they’ll move to another field.

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Bill Daniels Loves To Hunt Louisiana’s Specklebelly Geese

Specklebelly geese come to calls much like mallard ducks do. They like to circle the blind several times before they decide to come in and cup their wings in front of the blind. I call to specklebellies by trying to get one goose to pull away from the flock. Then, I do some clucks and yodels, and I listen to hear how that goose is answering back to me. Once he answers my call, I

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Plenty of Ducks and Specklebelly Geese

Calling new ducks is not nearly as difficult as calling stale ducks. When ducks see the same blinds and the same decoy sets and hear the same calls every day, at the end of the day, they practically can write a list of the names of the hunters in every blind. Ducks wise-up quickly to duck hunters. Even though you may see a lot of ducks, getting ducks down to the blind can be tough.

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Bill Daniels Guides and Hunts Louisiana’s Rice Fields

One of the toughest places in America to hunt early-season waterfowl is Louisiana. The first time I hunted there one November, my guide brought out two cans of industrial strength Yard Guard to keep the mosquitoes out of our blind. Mossy Oak pro Bill Daniels of Hayes, Louisiana, has been hunting the Bayou State for 33 years.

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Guiding Hunters on Public Land

I’m often asked if I guide hunters on public lands, and I say, “Yes, I do.” The next question that comes is, “What do the hunters who pay you to guide them think about your taking them to public land?” “They love it,” I answer. I don’t charge when I guide on public lands.

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Learn What Kind of Duck Hunting You’ll Have

On public lands in Arkansas, 90 percent of the ducks I’ll call in will be mallards. Now when I say I hunt on public lands, I’m not just hunting on WMAs, I’m also hunting rivers. Unlike many public-land hunters, I usually don’t use a blind on my boat. I’d rather get out in the water and stand next to a tree.

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How to Hunt Sneaky Holes for Ducks

When we’re going to hunt a big public area like a camp ground where other duck hunters may be able to see us as they drive by after their morning hunts, we try to be as invisible as possible. I put my other hunters out and tell them to stay behind the trees. I take the boat about 200 yards away from my hunters and hide the boat. Then I wade back to the tree

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Why Mike Still Hunts Camp Grounds for Ducks

Most duck hunters know that during the early season ducks like to land in bigger holes in the timber than they do later in the season. They can see better in those bigger holes, and as they come in to the decoys, they’ve got more room to light. There’s a camp ground I hunt on the side of a big creek, and this camp ground floods in the early season.

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Use Deer Hunting Tactics for Public Land Ducks

Mike Still, of Judsonia, Arkansas, has been hunting ducks for over 40 years and has been a member of the Mossy Oak Pro Staff for 7 years. Somewhat surprisingly we learned his favorite pattern is the original Bottomland camo for hunting waterfowl. “The reason I like Bottomland is because I primarily hunt flooded timber, and Bottomland looks more like a tree trunk, especially when I’m standing in the shadow of a tree, than a real

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How To Use A Duck Call

Mossy Oak ProStaff Member and waterfowl hunter Cory Dukehart shows new duck hunters how to use a duck call. Cory shows how to make the basic duck sounds and build on them to be a better duck caller.

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Goose Calling Tips

Mossy Oak ProStaff member Cory Dukehart is an avid waterfowl hunter. Cory shares some tips on how to use a goose call and make some of the basic sounds.

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