Do ducks exist in Missouri?

Do ducks exist in Missouri? You bet…but you probably won’t see them. With over 90,000 ducks at Four Rivers Waterfowl Management Area and another 90,000 loafing at Schell Osage we should be covered up with waterfowl. Oh sure, they’re “stale ducks”, birds that have been here a long time and know where not to go. …

Big Ness County, KS buck

One of my favorite deer hunters Scott Morgan bagged a nice buck recently in Ness County, KS. I’ll let Scott tell it. “I bagged this bruiser on a trip last week to Ness county –  50 miles north of Dodge City. He won’t quite make the record book, in the mid 160s range. I waited him …

Two days on Arkansas’ White River

Two days on Arkansas’ White river with outfitter Miles Riley of Riley’s Station is like two days in trout fishing heaven. On a recent two-day float I caught Lots of rainbows, one brown and a couple of cutthroats. No monsters but fast and furious  action and no crowds. To top it all off we saw …

Dove hunting in Missouri

Why am I always the last to know? After limiting out opening morning at a public dove hunting field east of Clinton, MO my friend Gary asked me to go back the  next afternoon. Beautiful field, sunflowers, the doves favorite snack, mowed in strips leaving hunters room  to hide  in the uncut part. Typical dove …

Tweener Time

Once again it’s Tweener Time when you get the rare privilege of viewing a cartoon that is too salacious and degenerate to appear in  outdoor sports publications yet too outdoorsy for Playboy, the magazine for the urban male. To understand this cartoon all you need to know  is that bucks are male deer and the …

Cody’s introduction to water and shotguns

I think it was Gene Hill who said, “If there are no Labrador retrievers in heaven, I don’t want to go”. Or maybe it was Faith Hill. Anyway, I agree.  Raising and training a Lab pup is an exasperating but rewarding job. You can almost see the wheels turning in their heads as they absorb …