Drake woodies taste good, look nice on the cabin wall and are fun to hunt. (Steve Hickoff photo)
By Steve Hickoff, Yamaha Outdoors Tips
First off, they hang out in beautiful places.
Legal time arrives. Suddenly as the sky barely brightens, two vocal dark forms buzz in as if scripted, successively splashing into plain view. A drake, as colorful as the hen woody is not, composes head and chest feathers in one quick motion as the female looks on, seemingly baffled by the fakes, but not yet spooked. You stand, alerting them, take aim at the rising bright form the drake makes as it wings off, and drop the bird: one quick shot.
Why should you also hunt woodies?
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