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Your last goose hunt probably included frigid temperatures and frozen noses, but the Conservation Season of your state’s Canada goose population can have you putting out decoys in your shirtsleeves.

Sometimes your hunting terrain dictates the use of a turkey decoy or two. In thicker woods a decoy may not be necessary, but anytime you’re hunting very open woods, pastures or food plots, decoys become an important tool. When a gobbler can see a long ways, it needs that visual to seal the deal.

A coworker once said, “The best part of a vacation is just before you leave work for it. After that, your time is running out.”

By 5 p.m. I was starting to lose it. Nine hours in a blind and still nothing hitting the waterhole. I once again moved from the three-legged stool to the hard, cracked ground.

Few instances in hunting offer more enjoyment than hunting ducks. Here are 10 tips that will help you be a better hunter this duck season.

They may be ignorant, but early season geese aren't stupid. Try these tips to see better success when shooting early season resident Canada geese

Kansan and Knight & Hale Pro Staffer Mick Bowman was frustrated with the deer he had been seeing...

There's more to successful use of decoys than simply sticking one out front. Here are eight tips on decoy use to make your turkey season more successful.

The response to the Pretty Boy and Pretty Girl turkey decoy system has been nothing short of revolutionary. Just two years ago mature gobbler decoys were virtually nonexistent in the woods. Now, a quick look at hunting television shows or hunting magazines reveal that the use of mature gobbler decoys has become a viable, popular and effective turkey hunting tactic.

Whether you're a veteran turkey hunter or a newbie heading to the woods for the first time, these tips can help you see more success this season.

Deer decoying is a relatively new tactic that lots of people are talking about! A decoy adds the visual to the scent (urines) and sound (deer call). Hunters can use a urine without a call or decoy, but shouldn't use a call without a scent (the call will position the deer downwind to scent-check). Hunters should also not use a decoy without a call and a scent.

Decoys are relatively new to deer hunting, but can add tremendous excitement and pull in bucks that would pass out of range. But it’s not as easy and throwing out a decoy and expecting deer to overrun you.

Few instances in hunting offer more shooting than hunting snow geese. With the overpopulation and special seasons, snows are one of the few game birds that you can shoot until your shoulder falls off. And, you'll get goose bumps when the great white tornado of birds swirl down into your decoy spread.

Waterfowlers are a different lot. Ever wonder why they wake up at ungodly hours and suffer through weather that ranges from simply cold to “OH MY GOSH!” cold, just for the opportunity to take home a few ducks or geese?

As a rule, single-reed calls are louder, and most are used in big-water situations, so a double-reed might be a better choice for starting out. There are plenty of instructional cassette tapes and CDs and full length DVDs available that will help you become proficient with your new call. Then you’ve got to practice, practice, practice.

If you blanket the area around your blind with decoys, waterfowl will land out of range. When setting out decoys, always remember to leave a spot for waterfowl to land in.

The Pretty Boy and Pretty Girl decoys represent a new level of realism in decoys. No other decoy looks as real, as lifelike, as the Pretty Boy. Used in conjunction with the Pretty Girl submissive hen deke, gobblers will literally come running ready for a fight.

For turkey hunters each hunting trip brings new lessons, and many trips provide that one moment when things can go either way. One of the most difficult turkeys to harvest is a public-land bird. These educated birds see tremendous hunting pressure. PRADCO Outdoor Brands Account Executive Glenn Seiter harvested a big public land bird two years ago, even when other hunters had been working the same bird that same morning.