This was insanity. We’d just sat back down inside the blind after retrieving birds, and already a new group of 20 or 30 ducks was locked onto our spread and dropping down to make their approach. The birds sucked gently closer to our decoys, seemingly pinning themselves to some unseen board in the sky. Tyler Mann, our guide and the owner/operator of Saskatchewan Goose Company in north-central Saskatchewan, shouted the order to take them. The pea field erupted as eight of us popped out of an A-frame blind and released a barrage at the perfectly decoying birds. Mallard after mallard fell from the air.
It was the third such volley we’d unleashed on our first evening hunt in Saskatchewan, and an impressive pile of ducks was accumulating behind the blind. The late-October temperatures were relatively mild for waterfowl hunting, and I could barely comprehend the fun I was having. I had expected the hunting here to be incredible, but somehow it was proving even better than I’d imagined. We filled our eight-man duck limit on that
