September 2012
Issue Contents

Features

September Strategies
Unpacking A Different Set Of
Tactics For The Early Goose Season
By David Rearick

Morning In The Corn
A Hunt For Horicon Geese
With A Very Special Guest
By Jay Strangis

River Remembrance
Sharing Time With Your
Thoughts In A Duck Blind
By Greg Hoch

Strange Season
What Looked Like A Poor Year For Canadas
Proved the Opposite on The Northern Prairie
By Michael Hungle

Weather—Or Not
Atmospheric Conditions Are Overrated—
It’s The Birds That Make Or Break A Hunt
By Jack Hirt

Predict Success
It’s An Old Waterfowling Edict—
Be Where They Want To Be
By Ross E. Swope

The Senator’s Model 12
Some Guns Just Aren’t For Sale
Fiction By Bill Morrissey

A Nice Little Goose Hunt
Salvaging A Mis-Timed
Trip To The Prairie
By Jay Strangis

Departments

Hunt Book
Flyway Watch—Honker/Hunter Intersections
Smart Money—Lamar, Colorado
The $100,000 Duck Call
Sabine
Bear River Resurgence
Canvasback
Marsh Notes—Study Targets Longtails
Mentoring Gets A push
Woodies Out West

From The Editor
A Special Contribution
By Jay Strangis

Decoying
Sun Vs. Clouds
By Michael Hungle

Duck Dogs
Feeding And Blind Retrieves
By Robert Milner

Shotshells
Environ-Metal’s New Speed Ball
By Tom Roster

Shotguns
Safety First
By Jarrod Spilger

Close Calls!
Ride Of My Life
Thomas Edmunds

Market Hunter
Find An Outfitter, Call, Boat, Retriever, Waterfowling Accessory

PotShots
The Anxious Wait
By Jim Dougherty