duck hunting is one grand sport I no of nothing that will make you stand in waist deep water at 20 degrees and wait for a shot at a lone duck and your hands are so cold you cannot push the safety off to get a shot and the next morning your out there doing the same thing.....charlie

Mergies definitely have a place in the Anseriformine universe! Wonderful pet food (loaded with those essential fish oils the Eskimos keep telling us we need to eat more of) plus great harbingers of the last big push of diving ducks down out of Canada. Also a perfect combo picture if you bag one of the more colorful species along with a wood duck ("Woodies and Hoodies"). Also a great "revenge duck" for the annoying non-hunting morons who are always bugging you for "one of your premier roast wild duck dinners that you NEVER gave ME!"