When you’re hunting ducks, being able to catch them by surprise is half the battle. Ducks feel safer when gathered in a group, so you can give them a false sense of security by using duck decoys.

Some days, hunters don’t have to do much at all to bring the ducks into gun range. “On certain days, if you’re in the spot where the ducks want to be and the conditions are right, you can kill them ...

CHATFIELD — Breathes there a duck hunter who, while sitting in a blind waiting for ducks to whistle within range, has never thought: "There's got to be a better way to take care of decoys." When I ...

Randy Root is a master of mallards. As a kid, he grew up on the south side of Chicago, but in 1960 his family bought several acres along the east side of the Illinois River not far from Peoria. Root ...