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Duck Season Somewhere

Dec 30, 2020

Chalk this episode up to fascinating thing learned while duck hunting along Arizona's Salt River. John Odell is Arizona's Migratory Game Bird Coordinator and holds the claim to fame as first known hunter achieving a little known North American Slam - you won't guess it in a million years. Along the way, he tells...


Dec 28, 2020

On the bank of the Salt River, just outside of Mesa, Arizona, Ramsey visits with Steve Comus, the Senior Editor of Safari Club Magazine for over 2 decades. As usual, meeting with such an experienced hunter always makes for an interesting conversation. What shotgun does Steve usually hunt with, and why does he...


Dec 23, 2020

Following a beautiful morning's duck hunt on the south end of Utah's Great Salt Lake, local historian Jack Ray describes to Ramsey Russell the history of the Rudy Duck Club and other venerable duck camps in the basin. The sign above them reads, "So fowl and fair a day I have not see." Why were so many great duck camps...


Dec 21, 2020

Following a couple exciting days hunting swans and ducks together in Utah, Chad Yamane and Ramsey Russell share a couple cold beers before supper and talk about those memorable hunts. How are swans hunted in Utah, what gear is required and what pointers does Chad have for swan hunters?  What was the weather like and why...


Dec 18, 2020

Rich Hansen is a field biologist and State Banding Coordinator in Utah. He and Ramsey discuss swan hunting and the important of Great Salt Lake associated wetlands to swan conservation. Why is this region vital to North American swans and how many swans pass through Utah? How did swan hunting originate in the United...