Duck blinds have come a long way since ancient Egyptians first started hunting over clay decoys along the Nile River in 2,500 B.C. But even back then hunters knew a key rule of waterfowling: The ...

SHELBYVILLE — Almost a dozen volunteers from around Central Illinois spent Saturday morning “brushing” duck blinds at Lake Shelbyville to celebrate the 20th anniversary of National Public Lands Day.

“Sounds like one of those backup alarms on a forklift,” Rick said. His voice rose over the din of hundreds of sea gulls rising from the grassland across the river from our duck blind. Four of us sat ...

Jess "The Undertaker" Essex of DeWitt pulled a Tom Sawyer type scheme to acquire a new duck blind at his lease on Mill Bayou. The old Essex blind is a classic bit of southeast Arkansas duck hunting ...

Filmmaker Emma Lou Reid had never been in a duck blind until assisting on a New Orleans artist’s project several years ago. What she discovered took on a life of its own. “In the Blind,” a documentary ...

TEKAMAH, Neb. — It’s cold and dark as a group rolls out of pickup trucks, crunches through thin snow past oodles of bird decoys and huddles into a long, rectangular box placed just so, right under the ...