The Ultimate Guide to Waterfowl Hunting: Tips, Tactics, and Techniques for Ducks and Geese

by Tom Airhart, Eddie Kent, Kent Raymer

Waterfowling is one of the more challenging forms of hunting. Requiring an intimate knowledge of the quarry in specialized gear—from shotguns and ammo to decoys, calls, blinds, and boats—and taking place in a variety of terrains—from the fields of Manitoba to the flooded timber of Arkansas, it’s the type of sport that gets in your blood and stays there. In The Ultimate Guide to Waterfowl Hunting , all aspects of this sport are covered by three authors who have intimate knowledge of how to hunt ducks and geese successfully. Chapters within this book cover dozens of topics, with special attention devoted

Identifying the many and various species of waterfowl
Methods for decoying and calling in a variety of situations
Advice on how to choose the best gear for the situation at hand
Theories and practices of retriever training and handling
Tips on hunting in different types of weather, from rain and snow to bluebird skies
How to choose the correct guns and loading
Plus tips on blind placement in water or on land

With more than a hundred photographs expertly illuminating the realities of waterfowl hunting, The Ultimate Guide to Waterfowl Hunting is sure to help hunters of all skill levels bag their biggest catches yet.

360 pages, Hardcover

Published October 3, 2017

Reviews

[David Barlow · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wanted to become a waterfowl hunter after my previous lab Kiera died at an early age of cancer. I have been slowly preparing to become a waterfowl hunter for 3 years with my first hunt being this year with my 3 year old Lab Solo. As a Beginner waterfowl hunter, this book didn't provide any tips and tricks that I hadn't already re-searched previously in my three years of preparation getting gear, licenses and podcasts. What it does provide is an in-depth description of how to identify waterfowl species (with a lot of pictures) as well as the migration patterns of birds and the areas they nest and winter. I wish it had an easy this is how you get ducks and geese to the table, but what I'm learning after being skunked the entire season, there is no easy way to waterfowl hunt; especially when you live in a big city and have to drive over an hour just to scout some public land.

I will recommend that you read this book as a physical copy as there are many pictures that will not come in clearly on an e-reader device. The text also references pictures by page number instead of figure number which makes it difficult to know what picture is being referenced when reading digitally.

The text does have a few spelling mistakes and syntax errors but is minimal when compared to other more poorly written hunting/outdoors books that I have read in the past.

This book is a good reference for beginners and intermediate hunters that want to better identify waterfowl species and have a place to summarize all the proper gear and tactics to use for waterfowl hunting (minus calling which is impossible to describe in a printed format). Chapters 8, 9 & 10 are for the die-hards that want to know all about the migration patterns and best times to hunt specific species in specific areas of North America but it was just a bit too in depth for me.