Yet, those on the chase for waterfowl not infrequently will sit longer on an uncomfortable hard wooden bench or upside down plastic bucket for hours, sometimes from before sunrise to sunset, without much complaint. That's the nature of the sport.
Once decades ago while on a hunt for black ducks and brant on a frigid late on the marsh at Chincoteague, Va., my gunning...
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