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Prepare for duck season all year-round with our huge collection of waterfowl hunting videos and articles. From the most effective calls, blinds and decoy arrangements, to the mouthwatering recipes that make it all worthwhile. You’ll learn valuable lessons for duck season success from the comfort of your home.

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Husband and Wife Team Manage for Wildlife

Bob and Suzie Smith of Lexington, Tennessee, joined the Mossy Oak GameKeepers ProStaff in May 2017.

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Taking Others Hunting is Part of Conservation

Being able to watch these hunters get excited and take ducks was more fun for me than taking a limit for myself. The guide service gets many first-time duck hunters, as well as hunters who have only been marginally successful. We also get hunters who have hunted ducks often. I enjoy spending time with them, sharing the resource and explaining why duck hunting is more than just about shooting ducks.

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A Waterfowl Hunt for Three Generations

Read Mossy Oak's waterfowl hunting post and learn how James MacDonald of Cornelius, Oregon experienced a hunt that united three generations of a family!

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One of My Favorite Youth Hunts

One of my favorite youth hunts I participated in was with an 11-year-old young lady named Isabel, her brother Mitchell, who was 12, and their mom. Dad didn’t hunt. I took them out twice in 2017. The mom’s family had grown up hunting, but the dad’s family didn’t. Mom wanted to pass on to her children her hunting tradition.

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Youth and the Outdoors: From Student to Coach

My dad didn’t hunt, but my grandfather did. He passed away when I was 13 years old, and I’ll never forget the time he spent with me and the things he taught me about the outdoors. Those hunting and fishing trips with my grandfather changed my life for the better. His name was Carroll Tubbs, but everyone called him Curly. Because of his impact on my life, I want to help introduce young people to

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Helping Youth Learn About the Outdoors

James MacDonald of Cornelius, Oregon, has been a Mossy Oak ProStaffer for almost 10 years. He was recently named 2017 Mossy Oak ProStaffer of the Year for his philanthropy work and volunteerism. MacDonald enjoys hunting waterfowl, teaching others to hunt and training retrievers. I became a Mossy Oak ProStaffer after training another member’s retriever. He asked if I’d like to join, I applied and I became a part of the Mossy Oak team. Besides training

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Can-Am Defender XMR Was Built for Mud and Duck Hunting

Can-Am’s Defender XMR was built for muddin’ and duck hunting, which is exactly what we use it for on a recent trip to South Texas. Rated Red's Abby Casey is joined by Can-Am's Andrew Howard to learn about all the features of their Defender XMR side-by-side. Then she takes it for a spin through the mud.

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Species Profile: Mallards

This species profile on the mallard duck highlights migration information, how to manage for ducks, reproduction facts and interesting tidbits about mallards.

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Mossy Oak Proudly Offers No. 1 Deer, Turkey and Waterfowl Patterns

Mossy Oak is proud to offer the best camo patterns for deer, turkey and waterfowl hunting. These no. 1 patterns are Break-Up Country , Obsession and Shadow Grass Blades . According to Southwick Associates’ Annual Hunt-Shoot Report, Deer Hunter, Mossy Oak’s Break-Up Country is America’s no. 1 camo pattern for deer hunting for three years running. Break-Up Country offers incredible effectiveness for concealing hunters in all types of terrain where deer reside. In addition, Mossy

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Mossy Oak Original Bottomland is DU’s Official Flooded Timber Camo Pattern

Ducks Unlimited (DU) and Mossy Oak Brand Camo, the official camouflage of Ducks Unlimited, recently announced that Mossy Oak’s Original Bottomland is now Ducks Unlimited’s official camo pattern for hunting flooded timber.

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Freezing Cold Canada Goose Hunt

As if on cue, the geese arrived with the rising sun. I worked my Zink goose call, and the incoming geese focused right on us. The big birds had been using the field for days and were confident in their approach. The first flock set their wings and drifted lower in elevation as they neared our spread. It was magical to watch the monster honkers close the gap, floating closer. They didn’t talk much and

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When Old Ducks Become New Ducks

Barnie Calef | Mossy Oak ProStaff I’m often asked, “At the end of the season, when a severe cold front is coming in that moves the old ducks out of your area and brings new ducks into the place you're hunting, how do you take those new ducks?” As an example, 520,000 stale ducks are sitting on the Missouri River 120 miles from my hunting camp. Because those ducks are so close to us, if

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Hunting Ducks Ugly in Late Season

You’ve got to do something different than the other duck hunters are doing. If you want to bag your birds, setting up your blind 60 yards downwind of your decoy spread and pass-shooting the ducks is something different than most hunters ever will do.

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Temperature Helps Determine Decoy Set-Ups

Some hunters will set their decoys really close together when the weather is hot. That’s a mistake. Other hunters will set their decoys too far apart from each other when the weather is very cold. That's also a mistake.

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Tips for Late Season Duck Hunting Decoy Spreads

When I'm hunting stale ducks during the late season, I use two types of decoy spreads. I’ll put out smaller decoy spreads in a really secluded area and perhaps only two dozen decoys in a pothole. The water may be so shallow in these little potholes that we may not be able to get our boat blind in to them. We may have to wade into them, which is nothing new for many duck hunters.

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