Randy Root is a master of mallards. As a kid, he grew up on the south side of Chicago, but in 1960 his family bought several acres along the east side of the Illinois River not far from Peoria. Root ...

BRAINERD — It was not what we wanted to see as Rolf Moen, of Nisswa, and his German short-haired pointer Sally, and I motored my duck boat in predawn darkness. What greeted us were flashlights ...

Simon Wenzel Melzer was one of a kind, a seemingly brilliant physician who gave all to his patients, but saved a few shots for the fowl Dr. Simon Melzer, left, then 81, and his hunting buddy Albert ...