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Food & Cooking
Smoked Duck
Looking for duck recipes? Try Chef Michael Hunter’s approach to whole smoked duck stuffed with a buttery herb filling and served with homemade cranberry jam.
Whether you’re chasing the migration thousands of miles from home or just a few minutes down the road, tools, tips, and tricks in this guide will enable you to consistently find more ducks and geese. Learn how to be a better waterfowler.
Whether you’re chasing the migration thousands of miles from home or just a few minutes down the road, tools, tips, and tricks in this guide will enable you to consistently find more ducks and geese. Learn how to be a better waterfowler.
From analyzing the terrain you’ll be hunting, to checking wind forecast the night before, onX Hunt puts the most powerful scouting tool in your hands.
Join Corey Loeffler and onX’s Ben Brettingen for tips and tactics on how to hunt geese. We’ll go over scouting, decoys, calling, and using onX Hunt to help you find more geese this fall.
Food & Cooking
Looking for duck recipes? Try Chef Michael Hunter’s approach to whole smoked duck stuffed with a buttery herb filling and served with homemade cranberry jam.
Research & Planning
onX Ambassadors share a few of their favorite spots and times of the year to set up blinds and start calling in ducks and geese during their migration.
Research & Planning
How does hunting pressure affect duck behavior? With insights from Cohen Lab’s waterfowl research, we explore the relationship between duck hunting trends, duck habitat, and duck behavior.
With a comprehensive set of features for waterfowl hunting, you can’t go wrong with onX Hunt.
Broadly speaking, you can hunt in waterfowl production areas. However, you should always check local regulations to ensure that additional restrictions or closures have not been put in place. Thousands of these waterfowl production areas around the country have been funded by the sale of Duck Stamps.
Getting started in waterfowl hunting isn’t difficult. You’ll need a hunting license and Duck Stamp, a shotgun with non-toxic ammunition, camouflage or earth-tone clothing, a spot to hunt, and the onX Hunt App. Learn how to use the Hunt App for waterfowl hunting.
Waterfowl hunting seasons occur in the fall and winter, and they vary by state and species. You’ll need to refer to your state’s regulations to confirm season dates for your species of interest. Additionally, many states are further broken down into zones with differing seasons.
Waterfowl, in the hunting context, refers to ducks, geese, and swans. These birds are generally found on or near water, and they all have webbed feet.
With migratory waterfowl flyways covering the vast majority of the country, you surely aren’t far from quality waterfowl hunting. To learn more about prime waterfowl hunting opportunities near you, check out our blog post on the best waterfowl hunting states.
Waterfowl are hunted with shotguns, and a 12 gauge autoloader is the most common choice for hunters. Lead shot was banned for waterfowl hunting in 1991 due to several detrimental impacts on waterfowl populations, so steel, tungsten, or bismuth shot is used.
See our other onX e-scouting guides for deer, elk, and upland bird.