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This is my first year to duck hunt and I am absolutely hooked. Once the season goes out I want to start reading some books that detail the culture and history of duck hunting. The bits and pieces of the culture and history that I've picked up on so far are very intriguing and makes me want to learn more. I was reading in either a recent Duck Unlimited or Delta Waterfowl magazine where they mentioned some prominent waterfowl authors and books and now I can't find where I read it. Do any of y'all have any good duck hunting books/authors that y'all like to read that you would recommend?

go to amazon.com I got the book that ducks unlmited was talking about there

"The Complete Book of North American Waterfowlin", by George Reiger.

Moss, Mallards, and Mules
By Robert Brister

Stories of the old duck hunters by Gordon MacQuarrie

RockBottom wrote:Stories of the old duck hunters by Gordon MacQuarrie

I found this one on another website and it looks really good. It is actually a trilogy, Stories of the Old Duck Hunters, More Stories of the Old Duck Hunters and Last Stories of the Old Duck Hunters. I'm definitely going to read these three. Thanks, guys, for all the recommendations...keep 'em coming.

"The Golden Age of Waterfowling" by Dr. Wayne Capooth is a great book you should read. "The Duck Hunters Almanac" is another newer book that is entertaining. Nash Buckingham wrote some great books that you may want to read, as well.

I bought B. Marcalsco's book on beaver control entitled,"The Beaver Book", from the great one his owndamnself! Forgot to get him to sign it in case he meets some untimely dimise in TX.

Duck Picker wrote:This is my first year to duck hunt and I am absolutely hooked. Once the season goes out I want to start reading some books that detail the culture and history of duck hunting. The bits and pieces of the culture and history that I've picked up on so far are very intriguing and makes me want to learn more. I was reading in either a recent Duck Unlimited or Delta Waterfowl magazine where they mentioned some prominent waterfowl authors and books and now I can't find where I read it. Do any of y'all have any good duck hunting books/authors that y'all like to read that you would recommend?

One of my favorite duck hunting books is "Arkansas Duck Hunter's Almanac". There is a lot of history, stories, pictures from the Golden Age Of Waterfowling to date. Not to mention the wealth of info in this book about hunting Arkansas' vast public grounds. It's a must have, IMO.

mudsucker wrote:I bought B. Marcalsco's book on beaver control entitled,"The Beaver Book", from the great one his owndamnself! Forgot to get him to sign it in case he meets some untimely dimise in TX.

AbuBen has a beaver book? I must have it!

Here are my recommendations:

Gunning the Chesapeake - Walsh
The Outlaw Gunner - Walsh
The Grand Passage
Waterfowling in the Mississippi Flyway - Connet

anything by Gene Hill, Dave Hagerbaumer, Havila Babcock, Buckingham (hard to read because he writes like a brotha speaks), MacQuarrie

I'll second the Gordon MacQuarrie trilogy.


For a more modern-day author, Doug Larsen is hard to beat.

Van Campen Heilner's "A Book on Duck Shooting."

I got a real good one for Christmas, titled First Shooting Light. This book profiles a number of clubs in Mississippi and Arkansas. Very interesting reading.