Garden & Gun

Luxury Ducks, Texas-Style

Teal are the most dishonest of ducks. They don’t circle your decoys in great looping gyres, as ducks are supposed to do, giving you a chance to steel your spirit and ready the gun. They don’t talk back to your quacks or drift into the decoys with wings set and feet splayed. Instead, they swarm over the horizon like giant clouds of bees and strafe the decoys from any direction they please.

Which is why, as I’m hunkered down in a Texas Coastal Plains duck blind, at

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