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Yesterday afternoon a good friend and I went and hunted one of my favorite spots, which I call the Flats. It's a huge former river delta that, depending on the snowpack from the winter before, can be either a dry playa or thousands of acres of flooded marsh and grassland. When the water...

After many years of hunting with steel and running pretty much everything through a factory Modified choke, this year I chose to switch thing up a bit. I bought a case of Boss copper plated bismuth in a 2 3/4" #3/5 duplex load, and I've been really happy overall with the results but since it...

[font "Arial"]I was able to make good on a rare opportunity earlier this week, here in Utah we have permits for Tundra swans available in a limited draw and this year I finally drew one. We get quite a migration through here, and after a quick rattle can conversion of some old super magnum...

The marsh is happy to offer geese in sizes S/M/L, grab yours today! Seriously though, all three of these came from a group of 5, and the remaining 2 I'm 99% sure were Specklebellies, which are really rare for my area and I have only seen here one other time. Anyone have any idea what kind the...

After having one of the slowest starts to a waterfowl season that I've ever experienced, I was really glad this morning to go out and see that some migrators are finally moving in! I saw some big groups of 50-100 wigeon, mallards, and gadwalls flying, a welcome sight indeed. Over the past few...

...but when I do, I make sure that they're a Barrows! Got this young fellow last weekend on the closer for my part of the state, as the title says I usually give goldeneyes a pass but something told me to pull the trigger on this one, which ended up being a Barrows, which is a first for me...

Hey guys, I thought you might enjoy some video I took this morning of a literal tornado of mallards working over us! We were hunting an ice hole on a large farm pond and I think it's safe to say the ducks wanted in there! It was a sight I will remember for a long time, beautiful and humbling...

My buddy shot a cool duck while we were out last week, at first glance it was a regular old hen mallard but when we got looking closer we realized that it had some pretty unique features. It was really dark for a mallard and had a drakes's yellow bill. At first I thought that it might be a...

Hey guys, after years of talking and thinking about it I finally decided to build a home bird plucking system. Besides being avid bird and waterfowl hunters my family raises and processes between 20-30 meat chickens a year so we end up doing a ton of bird plucking, a lot of times I just take...

Hey guys, I've spent way too long AWOL from checking out this site, too much real life has been in the way and I really need to have more boat building and decoy making in my life! Things have finally settled down a bit, I finally got into the marsh to kick off the season and managed to hit an...

Hey guys, I'm posting this story so hopefully everyone can learn from the mistakes I made a few night ago and not do the same. Funny that this story happens just a few days after Jim G's story of almost losing his dog but that's the way it happened. I love hunting in the late season but it...

Was able to get out this evening after a snowstorm that lasted most of the morning, took me 3 tries to get to one of my favorite late-season spots that I wanted to check out. I tried my boat, my sled, and finally a combination of both. Once I finally made it to my spot, I set out 3 mallard...

Seems like the freeze up is happening in full force this week! Got out yesterday afternoon to see if any new birds were in the area, hoping for geese specifically. I ended up at one of my favorite late season spots, had to break ice several times to get there and was fighting ice in the decoys...

16", Radar guided, should be good to 35,000 yards or so.....might be a bit of a chore to get out to the blind though, and the shells are pricey! All jokes aside, glad to be back on these boards and back in the marsh after a long, busy summer and early fall....I forget how much I miss this...

Got this banded goose last night, it came in with a flock that was probably the biggest single flock I've ever seen in the air in person-at least 500 or 600 birds. I could hear them coming for at least a mile before they came over, it was quite a sight! This particular goose was banded in the...

Managed to get out yesterday right on the edge of a big storm front as it came through, it was a fantastic afternoon! Love to see those birds riding the wind and flying through the snow. There's something so captivating about seeing the birds come into focus out of the snow and mist, cup up...

...Cause I love to lay in coffins! Took a trip to one of my favorite later-season spots to hunt yesterday....it's a spot that stays open late in the year as it's part of a river delta that flows out onto the Great Salt Lake. It's quite a mission to get out there, it's about a 4 mile boat...

In my ongoing quest to ever expand my goose floater fleet, I got to thinking about how I could convert the pile of goose shells in my garage into floater decoys. I went over a few ideas in my head and finally decided that the simplest way to go would be the best way, so here's a quick step by...

Had a great morning today chasing the water doves-I decided to hit up a spot I like to call Whistler Lake due to the prolific amounts of teal, wigeon, and pintails it holds. When the birds are in there you can hear a constant back and forth of whistles from all 3 kinds of ducks, it's pretty...

I've been working as much as I can on getting this new boat in the water, things have really come together over the last week or so! I had a 4-day weekend last week that really let me get some work done. After I had the cockpit soles cut to fit, I attached them to the floor supports with a...