This book contains a concise yet detailed guide on duck hunting, including remarks on blinds, decoys, making a hide, shelters, bird flights, trapping, and much more. This book is both informative and accessible, making it perfect for the amateur. A book sure to appeal to anyone with an interest in this avocation, 'A Guide for the Duck Hunter' is well deserving of a place in any collection of hunting literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Wildfowl Shooting – Duck Shooting', 'Guns for Duck Shooting', 'Blinds, Decoys', 'Making a Hide', 'The M. B. Curtain', 'When Inside a New Hide', 'Shelters in Open Fields', 'The Hen-coop Reproduction', 'Miscellaneous Hints', 'The Flight of Birds', 'Your Shoot', 'On Trapping Woodpigeons and Winged Vermin', 'The Legal Aspect of Wildfowling', 'The Gun for the Job', and 'More about Guns'. We are proud to republish this antique text here complete with a new introduction on shooting wildfowl.

No waterfowl hunter can afford to be without this complete, up-to-date guidebook.

A guide for duck hunters that includes information on duck habitats, breeding behaviors, food habits, migration patterns, and other related topics.

A guide to hunting all kinds of ducks, geese, and other waterfowl in all sections of the U. S.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

For the past decade, Thomas's "Closing Time" columns in "Ducks Unlimited" magazine have received wide critical praise. This collection of those columns also includes eight chapters and five introductory essays that have not been published previously as well as photography by the author and his wife.