Duck season is quickly approaching. With just a few weeks until opening day, it's a great time to take stock of your gear and figure out what you need to upgrade—or what you're missing. Fortunately, ...

An Oklahoma graduate student and rodeo star was killed in a duck hunting accident over the weekend, authorities confirmed. Jackson Williams, 24, died Sunday morning when he went to retrieve a duck in ...

I recently bought my first pair of breathable lightweight waders, and now I wonder what took me so long. Hardcore duck hunters are saying, "Duh!" This wader style has been around for a long time.

Nancy Sinatra never wore chest waders. Most of a recent duck hunt included things I didn’t expect. A big part of what makes the great outdoors “great” is the unknown, the serendipity.

As uncomfortable as it can be, hunting and fishing in the cold makes me happy. Friday's duck hunt with Joe Volpe of Little Rock felt colder than it was. The humidity was high and a light east breeze ...

Jeb Burnett showed me a video that perfectly encapsulates the mindset of the public land duck hunter. Burnett shot the video at the Lower Vallier Access at Bayou Meto Wildlife Management Area. The ...

In late October, we got our annual Halloween push of ducks here in the Midwest, and a friend and I timed it just right. We set up on a big agricultural retention pond with winds gusting to 30 mph. I ...

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 ...