25 Good Duck Hunting Sayings

Many traditions are associated to duck hunting. With many ducks appearing one or two at a time, the player is given three shots to shoot them down. To celebrate this timeless tradition, here are some good duck hunting sayings to keep you encouraged.

“A day in the blind is a delightful occasion. If there are ducks to be shot so much the better, but even a day in the open watching the bobbing decoys and the changing weather, with the good companionship of friends, is in itself a more than worth-while experience.”

“A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of conservation’s greatest assets.”

“A goose represents the rebel in all of us and because they’re wild and free, they have a certain quality that shines out and makes us wish that we were not bound to labor in life, but rather that we could drift as they do with the seasons.”

“A symbiotic relationship exists between waterfowl and the waterfowler. The birds provide sport, relaxation and that indefinable something that comes over anyone who’s ever watched a flight of canvasback against a gray sky.”

“A wild duck is not to be valued in terms of food along with chickens and pork chops. It means day breaking over the marshes and the whistle of fast wings in the gray light.”

“As long as there is such a thing as a wild goose, I leave them the meaning of freedom.”

“At least half of the fun of a duck shoot is the company and work of a good retriever.”

“Duck hunting gives a man a chance to see the loneliest places …blinds washed by a rolling surf, blue and gold autumn marshes, …a rice field in the rain, flooded pin-oak forests or any remote river delta. In duck hunting the scene is as important as the shooting.”

“Duck hunting is conducted in a pleasurable and paradoxical atmosphere of relaxation and anticipatory tension. You never know what is going to happen next—but something usually does.”

“For us hunting wasn’t a sport. It was a way to be intimate with nature.”

“Grand ideas can be born in duck blinds, for many of America’s leading conservationists found both inspiration and motivation from what they saw and felt as they awaited encounters with wildfowl.”

“I intend to learn to call waterfowl even if in the process I offend every ear in the country – and I just might.”

“I never wrote a poem in my life. But if I ever do, it will be about ducks.”

“Out of small game came flights of…ducks, and I came to see, through them, that my attraction was not, above all else, to the killing, but to the sighting of the animal, the ‘reading’ of his flight, the knowing of where he would be.”

“The best duck blinds are those designed to give us a chance to think, for the periods between flights were meant for musing.”

“The magic visitation of ducks from the sky to a set of bobbing blocks holds more of beauty and heart-pounding thrill than I have ever experienced afield with rod or gun.”

“The old man used to say that the best part of hunting and fishing was the thinking about going and the talking about it after you got back.”

“There are no bad days in a duck blind.”

“There is no feeling in the world like that of seeing ducks dropping out of a winter sky coming to decoys that you have made with your own hands.”

“To the avid waterfowler, no moment of truth can match the instant when a flock first responds to his call and decoys, the time when this wild, free bird of unsurpassed grace begins a descent from the sky down to gun range. It is a stirring spectacle.”

“What better, indeed, can life offer than a duck shooter’s happy dreams! Dreaming, we shoot our ducks over and over; good days and bad, they come back to us out of the joyous past.”

“When blizzards and storm winds strike, other hunters curl up by the hearth. Waterfowlers go forth.”

“When done under the rules of good sportsmanship, duck hunting is a culmination of art, skill and scientific endeavor. It is also an act of love, for who loves the birds more than the hunter?”

“When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying, they are all different and they fly different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.”

“Who shall say that the hunting spirit, the desire to match one’s wits against the wariest of wildfowl, is a lower motive than the softer attractions of a young May moon and a fair companion. At least a safer pursuit.”

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