My good friend Chris Morton called the other day. “Let's go out and decide where we want to put our blinds this year,” he said. Morton likes to plan ahead and get things done early. I'm about the ...

At first glance, there’s not much to a duck blind, a structure that hunters use to camouflage themselves while waiting for birds to fly overhead. They’re humble, often small structures made of simple ...

Four of us sat in a duck blind, going on our second hour of not seeing any ducks. The conversation had died down, and we kept a quiet company with Betty, a long-legged black Lab in her fourth season, ...