I worked in the Prairie Pothole of North Dakota doing duck nest monitoring and the effects of predator control when I was in college. Bluewings, Gadwalls, and Shovelers are late nesters, so they're in no big hurry to get back up there. That's why they're still down this way. They don't start nesting...

I know General Jim Daniel, have worked with him on duck hunts in the past, had the opportunity to meet his son in Afghanistan. I have a list of 250 or so injured veterans interested in hunts. I was just going to open it up to a board member/local vet first. Gotcha. We hosted a duck hunt for them th...

Contact General Daniel at http://www.operationwoundedwarriorsuppo ... contact-1/ They are duck hunters, but they deal specifically with combat veterans and purple heart recipients. I'm sure they can put you in touch with someone who would appreciate your awesome gesture.

Avian cholera is not the bird flu and it kills waterfowl every year. It's nothing new.

I've put over 225k on 2 different GMCs without anything major that wouldn't have happened or wore out on any brand vehicle. I drive a 2011 F-150 for work and I don't particularly care for it. It rides nice and gets decent gas mileage for a full size, but doesn't have a whole lot of power in the mud ...

I went from Winona to Dahomey to Greenville and back to Winona over the weekend and didn't see much. Only 2 big flocks of geese, maybe 1000 ducks on the refuge, and some spoons on fishponds. That was it.

Hearding Ducks legal? Or some wingy things for some real motion in da spread... Nope. Heard of a guy herding snows with an RC plane. Feds tore him up. The ones that got busted in Arkansas about 15 years ago actually got off pretty light. We have a friend that was there the day shooting the day they...