Best States for Duck Hunting in the USA

Hey duck hunter! To make your life easier for you, so you can just go out there and pursue your hobby, we put together a list of five best states for hunting ducks. Our leading list is made of states like California, Texas, Kansas, Illinois and Louisiana. Is this where you live or the country next to yours? Awesome! Let’s dig in.

5. Texas – Private Land, Public Hunting

The duck hunters’ number, like many others things in Texas, is big, too. Most of Texas’ land, about 95.8%, is private. That means that, even though there some awesome ducks all over the state, most probably you will have to knock on somebody’s door and ask for permission to hunt on his backyard or ranch. Good thing is there is no shortage of opportunity to call in your first cranes (the limit of bags is about 2-3 per day).

Blanco, Texas

4. Illinois – Great Hunting Opportunity

It doesn’t matter if you’re hunting in flooded timber or a millet hole when it comes to Illinois, because it has puddle ducks that come in droves from the Central Flyway. By planning a hunting trip to Illinois, you are planning a great opportunity to hunt on several species all in one trip. Of course, ducks are the best waterfowl hunting choice.

Fort Massac, Illinois

3. California – Huge Waterfowl Variety

This is one of the few countries that offers such large variety of waterfowl species for hunter. Best choices would be mallards, wigeon, shovelers, green-winged and cinnamon teal, pintails and, of course, ducks.

As the states offers a big number of options, there is a price to be paid – the big number of waterfowl hunters. There are times when the state has to close to 50.000 waterfowl hunters itching at the moment opening day starts.

Finalist of Duck Stamp Contest, California

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2. Louisiana - Best Cast and Blast State

The so-called Pelican State has about 8k square meter of water. There is a widely known belief that the state was actually designed for ducks. That’s why it is so close to the first place in our listing for best duck hunting states. Over 570,000 ducks are harvested during a year with only between only 50,000 licensed waterfowl hunters hunting them. The public land is pretty much enough, so accessing the state it’s not a challenge. Good thing is you can go there with your fishing buddies there as well, because there’s plenty of fish as well.

1. Kansas – The Best State to Hunt Ducks and Geese

With about 175,000 annual ducks hunted and a hunter success rate of 11.3 duck per hunter in a season, naturally the first place for duck hunting goes to Kansas. The Sunflower State gains its leading position thanks to the opportunity of finding ducks and geese, because that’s towards where the they fly south. One thing Kansas is noted for when it comes to hunting, are the mallards on private and public lands.

Kansas

The earliest duck hunting season starts on October 9 for the high plains unit and low plains early zone ducks. The latest hunting season, those of low late zone and low plains southeast zone ends by the end of January.

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