It’s the sound only made by a flock of teal cutting the cold air at breakneck speed. And so it was that the First Dallas Safari Club (DSC) Duck Hunt took place in January 2015. Hard work and scouting by J.J. Kent of Kent Outdoors put 17 Dallas Safari Club members in the right spot for 2 […]
There’s nothing better than a good guided duck hunting trip and few things more frustrating than a bad one. Here are 8 must do stateside destinations that will fuel your passion without requiring a second mortgage, and 4 once in a lifetime hunts that are expensive but the stuff that dreams are made of. Read Full […]
When I finally decided I needed to experience the fantastic waterfowl shooting I’d been hearing so much about down Argentina way, GetDucks.com was my first, and last telephone call. They set up my trip down there to the very last detail…All I had to do was the shooting, and eating and drinking. They have you covered. Read […]
An old high school buddy wanted to meet for lunch and discuss a short story for Magnolia Chapter of SCI. He offered to buy so the invitation was quickly accepted. As we put away plutonium-enhanced hot wings, he explained wanting the story of GetDucks.com as it relates to my own personal history, which he remembered well. […]
Argentina duck hunting at Rio Salado consists of pure, unbaited, old school duck hunting in a remote 74,000 acre paradise of a wetland. It’s one of the very best-remaining high-volume Argentina duck hunts, but it’s real duck hunting. And as the following story attests, waterfowl hunting basics apply: The Argentine sun gently bathes the wetland […]
Passing Ramsey Russell’s GetDucks.com booth, I saw the King Eider mount and stopped to discuss hunting this duck. King Eider is the known as the pinnacle of duck hunting. Russell told me…READ MORE (PDF) Referenced Hunt: King Eider Hunting in Alaska
What I can say about Mexico is that I simply can’t wait to go back, and that I deeply enjoyed this relaxing trip. Escaping the bitter northern winter to bag bucket-list birds under warm skies in late-February was purely sublime. That first cinnamon teal was like a ghost from a fantasy, and those undulating lines […]
The days that followed featured more of the same: an almost idyllic schedule coupled with a great resource and great hosts…we would show up to watch mallards swirl into the cut barley just like they do in the old Les Kouba paintings. Read full story – Sixteen Dozen: Big-spread fowling on the Manitoba prairie
He picked up the idea from his pal Ramsey Russell of Brandon, whose GetDucks.com organizes trophy duck hunts. Russell’s duck poppers, wrapped around cherries, figs and other fruits triggered some taste bud imagination. “He offers duck hunts all over the world, so he comes back with some good recipes from all over the world,” Nolan […]
When Ramsey stumbled into an opportunity to go gunning from a traditional sink box in Nova Scotia he jumoed at the chance. From a historical perspective, the sink box represents the end of the market hunting era and the birth of waterfowl hunting as we know it today. Read full story: Sink Box History, Politics […]