Duck blinds have come a long way since ancient Egyptians first started hunting over clay decoys along the Nile River in 2,500 B.C. But even back then hunters knew a key rule of waterfowling: The ...

The envelope rustled as Mike Boyd opened the flap. He tilted it and a duck band slipped into the palm of his hand. Boyd's ...

SWAN QUARTER, N.C. – Authorities say a man assaulted a cousin of Gov. Roy Cooper and a North Carolina wildlife official, ranted at them with slurs and threats and accused them of hunting in his duck ...

At first glance, there’s not much to a duck blind, a structure that hunters use to camouflage themselves while waiting for birds to fly overhead. They’re humble, often small structures made of simple ...

Louisiana is loaded with duck nuts who spend 10 months of the year pining for the two when the season is open and they can forgo sleep, personal hygiene and sufficient nutrition to mine their favorite ...

The tablet of graph paper, green colored with quarter-inch squares used for drafting, sat on the low table before me. The woodstove crackled with spruce near where Rigby sat on the end of the table, ...

ERIE, Pa. (AP) "” Wooden boxes, measuring no more than 6-by-12 feet, have been going up on Presque Isle State Park as they do every year around this time. During duck hunting season, the boxes are ...

TEKAMAH, Neb. — It’s cold and dark as a group rolls out of pickup trucks, crunches through thin snow past oodles of bird decoys and huddles into a long, rectangular box placed just so, right under the ...

Duck hunters (me included) are a passionate lot. Little wonder. The anticipation in the pre-dawn of the possibility of new ducks, a steaming cup of coffee in hand, the smell of dogs and gunpowder, ...

As Arkansas waterfowl hunters prepare for another migration season, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is emphasizing a ...