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Take all reasonable shots for South Carolina ducks
As the season wears on, ducks become more and more skeptical of any place they might want to drop their feet. […]
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Ducks: Never too late – South Carolina duck hunters shouldn’t give up until January and the season come to a close
With nearly half of the 60-day duck season remaining, there couldn’t be a better time to hunker down in a bush-covered blind to get a limit of mallards, wood ducks and green-winged teal. […]
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Hunt ducks safely on the Pamlico Sound
Each year, thousands of migrating waterfowl show up in eastern North Carolina, which has plenty of beaver swamps, impounded grain fields, creeks, lakes and sprawling sounds where a duck can find a place to rest and eat. […]
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Old-school tactics still produce
There’s no disputing that a life-like decoy spread is often the difference between a limit of ducks and going home wanting. […]
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Kill more ducks by adding motion to decoy spreads
You’ll kill more ducks if you add some type of movement to your decoy spreads. […]
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Up the ante on late-season ducks
When South Carolina duck hunters take to the water for the short opening segment of the season around Thanksgiving, if the ducks are around, the hunting is relatively easy. […]
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North Carolina stuck in dead zone as duck migrations start and stall
Temperatures are high and expectations are low as the third segment of North Carolina’s three-part waterfowl season gets underway. […]
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Borrow pits: duck havens
Over the past 20 years, federal dollars have upgraded transportation facilities in every county in both North Carolina and South Carolina to handle the booming human population settling in the South. […]
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Set a tasty spread of decoys and kill more ducks this season
The predawn was a lot colder than normal for the opening of waterfowl season. A thin layer of ice covered the small lake that a good flock of mallards had been using. […]
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Surprising arrival of teal makes early duck season a good one on Yadkin River
If often seems that North Carolina’s waterfowl seasons are too early or too late to match up with migrating waterfowl. The birds stall up north due to warm weather or push south in between the staggered seasons, so hunters can’t get to them. […]