Booking hunts is only part of the business. Ramsey Russell hosts many excursions and travels to find new duck hunting locations. He’s duck hunted on 6 continents, averaging 150 to 200-plus days of travel per year. Although it has its downsides, Ramsey Russell realizes he’s living what many would consider a dream. He travels, experiences […]
Soon he booked out Canada. He started a website: getducks.com. He added Argentina duck hunting to his list. He joined Dallas Safari Club and breathed the rarified air of markhor hunters. Soon he was opening adventure duck hunts around the world–for species most mallard hunters never heard of. Duck hunts in Azerbaijan, Peru, Russia, Sweden, […]
Though sometimes forgotten waterfowling paradise, the eastern shore of Mexico’s Sea of Cortez…offers hunting combinations found nowhere else on the planet. It doesn’t seem like a place you’d find ducks, given the terrain of fishing villages punctuated by desert and prickly pear cactus. But they are there. By the many thousands. Pintails. Wigeons. Teal of […]
Ramsey Russell is a southern salesman, an entrepreneur, and an old-school duck slayer. He’s also opening new duck hunting opportunities around the globe for American waterfowlers. “These are real duck hunts for real duck hunters. If you want all of the other shit, take your wife to Italy.” Many times, Russell hunts with locals who […]
There is something about hunting with the folks from Benelli and Ramsey Russell of GetDucks.com during Obregon Mexico duck hunting combo that redefines how wingshooting is done when it is done right…When great accommodations, great guys and great shooting come together, it is Mexico duck hunting to remember forever. The nice part is that it doesn’t […]
Hunters always talk and dream of finding themselves “in the middle of nowhere,” but rarely arrive at that destination. Even that little rock in the middle of the Bering Sea has wireless. Not here. Real duck hunters find the middle of nowhere in Argentina’s wild northern tier, where the Rio Salado River winds through the […]
While there’s absolutely nothing illegal or untoward about the common South American custom of corning, some hunters prefer the uncertainty supplied by un-baited, free-range ducks. The few Argentina duck hunting destinations that cater to such hunters are well off the beaten path, but they make up for in adventure what they may lack in predictability. […]
But this isn’t the story about a man who escaped death but lost what he loved to do most in life. Because Ramsey Russell didn’t just survive – he stared death in the face and lived, overcame the odds and has spent his adulthood creating new cultural experiences by doing what he loves – traveling […]
24-page, full-color catalog online: Ramsey Russell’s GetDucks.com 2019 – Offering the World’s Best Duck Hunting Experiences (hi res PDF). Contact us to receive your complimentary hi-res, high-quality print copy. Copies also available at Safari Club International, Dallas Safari Club, and other select events.
Many people go their entire lives never knowing that duck hunting is not just about dead ducks. We hunters know. Destination hunting is not only about a trophy; it’s about the immersive experience of playing the game. Real hunting. It’s the simple reminder of what we’ve experienced that those feathered trophies shimmering in our game […]