HUNTER SPOTS DUCKS

HUNTER EDUCATION

A boy studies his hunter education booklet prior to taking the hunter education exam at a family camp operated by California Waterfowl.

DUCK HUNTER

A duck hunter looks out on the flooded-corn pond she'll be hunting that morning in Eastern Washington.

DUCK PLUCKING

Women pitch in to pluck an American wigeon during a duck-plucking demonstration at the Novice Women's Duck Hunt.

DUCK RETRIEVED

A Labrador retriever delivers a downed duck to her hunter.

PHEASANT HUNT

A pheasant bursts from cover, the dog handler restrains his dog and the shooter raises her gun.

CANADA GOOSE PLUCKING

A New Zealand sheep and cattle farmer plucks a Canada goose killed that morning on his farm pond.

DRESSING PUKEKOS

A hunter dresses pukekos from the previous evening's hunt in Hari Hari, on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island.

Shotgun shooter

California state Sen. Dave Cortese shooots trap.