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Duck Hunting
Editor’s Note: Barney Calef of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who has been hunting ducks for 48 years, is the owner of Calef Calls Inc. (www.calefcalls.net) that produces duck and goose calls. I’m often asked, “At the end of the season, when a severe cold front is coming in that moves the old ducks out of your …
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Duck Hunting
Editor’s Note: Barney Calef of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who has been hunting ducks for 48 years, is the owner of Calef Calls Inc. (www.calefcalls.net) that produces duck and goose calls. This method is what I call taking ducks and geese ugly and is a last-resort tactic that I use when ducks fly over our blind …
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Comments Off on Realizing that Colder Weather Means Tighter Decoy Spreads
Duck Hunting
Editor’s Note: Barney Calef of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who has been hunting ducks for 48 years, is the owner of Calef Calls Inc. (www.calefcalls.net) that produces duck and goose calls. Some hunters will set their decoys really close together when the weather is hot. That’s a mistake. Other hunters will set their
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Duck Hunting
Editor’s Note: Barney Calef of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who has been hunting ducks for 48 years, is the owner of Calef Calls Inc. (www.calefcalls.net) that produces duck and goose calls. When I’m hunting stale ducks during the late season, I use two types of decoy spreads. I’ll put out smaller decoy spreads in a
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Comments Off on Taking Stale Ducks
Duck Hunting
Editor’s Note: Barney Calef of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who has been hunting ducks for 48 years, is the owner of Calef Calls Inc. (www.calefcalls.net) that produces duck and goose calls. One year at my hunting camp during December, we’d had stale ducks – ducks that had been in the same area for an extended
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