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  • Game & Fish West

    DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE

    Oct 13, 2020 4 minutes
    By M.D. Johnson

    It was shaping up to be the kind of waterfowl hunt you see in the picture books. A low-profile skiff. A black dog. Shotgun. Blind bag. Eight inches of sheet water. Clouds, but no rain, and a good east wind. And 12 decoys.

    I beached the skiff on a soggy section of the half-flooded pasture and set to rigging my small spread. Canada floaters to the left at 20 yards. Ducks widely spaced to the right, also 20 steps from the hide. A pair of dekes attached to a jerk cord in the hole. Four minutes was all it took to

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