Waterfowl stories from wherever birds are moving.
Duck Season Somewhere follows the culture of waterfowling from Ark-La-Miss Delta to Mexico, Alberta, Tennessee, Argentina, and U.S. and Canadian outfits. Its best moments turn hunting talk into longer stories about family, injury, habitat, faith, bird health, and why people keep returning to the blind.
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Duck Season Somewhere is a long-running waterfowl show with mud on its boots and a broad map in its head. The center of gravity is duck hunting, but the show rarely stays in one lane for long. Recent episodes point toward Ark-La-Miss Delta, Nayarit in Mexico, Alberta's staging grounds, Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee, Argentina, and vetted U.S. and Canadian outfitters. That travel sense gives the series its sweep. The rhythm is often sponsor-heavy at the start, with detailed reads on waders, steel shot, hearing protection, shotguns, decoys, kids' hunting gear, travel protection, and outfitter networks. After that, the stronger editorial identity comes through in conversation. A practical question about a hunt can become a memory about a first deer, a rebuilt arm, or the moment a doctor says a bow may be gone for good. A discussion about peace and resilience can move from burn injuries into fatherhood, faith, front-line burdens, and the private work of carrying trauma. Conservation is not treated like a sidebar. Ducks Unlimited, habitat, migration, waterfowling policy, and the future of hunting all sit near the same table as shells, blinds, and local stories. The show is comfortable with specific field vocabulary, but it is warmer than a buyer's guide. It likes old-fashioned storytelling. It lets people take the long way around. There is humor in the rural asides, yet the show can turn serious without feeling staged. Hunting is presented as family tradition, travel pursuit, outdoor skill, and spiritual pressure point all at once. The best episodes feel like standing near a truck after a hunt while someone keeps remembering one more thing. It is polished enough to carry sponsors, but its appeal is still rooted in informal, region-by-region conversation. Listeners get practical hunting talk alongside a wider portrait of waterfowl culture. The result is a show that makes duck season feel local, personal, and much bigger than one blind.
Made for: Built for duck hunters, traveling waterfowlers, conservation-minded outdoors people, and listeners who enjoy long-form hunting stories with regional texture. It also suits fans of gear talk who want more than product chatter.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by pairing practical waterfowl detail with personal interviews that wander into injury, family, faith, habitat, and the politics of conservation. Its map is unusually wide, but its voice stays close to the blind.
Your go-to for exploring authentic duck hunting adventures WORLDWIDE! For 365 days per year, it really is duck hunting season somewhere. Host Ramsey Russell founded GetDucks.com over 20 years ago, spending most of the year in duck blinds among 6 continents. Meeting with real waterfowl hunters, conservationists, biologists, and storytellers encountered throughout North America and around the globe, Ramsey shares a duck hunting world much bigger than our own backyards.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ramsey Russell connects waterfowl technique, habitat science and personal experience through patient, detail-rich conversations.
Ramsey Russell approaches waterfowl hunting through extended conversations that connect practical decisions in the field with the culture and personal histories surrounding them.
This is the duck blind where your hunting curiosity keeps wandering into ecology and hard-earned life stories.
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Burn injury, adoption, and faith share the same chair here.
Mojo's Duck Season Somewhere stays with burn injury, faith, and fatherhood without drifting from its plainspoken center. The episode works best in the hard-earned details: a guest remembers crying in the burn center, hearing the old toughen-up talk, and feeling the weight of…
A close-range hunting story that turns injury, recovery, and spear hunting into something hard to shrug off.
Mojo's Duck Season Somewhere spends this hour on a hunter whose right arm was rebuilt from shoulder to wrist, then presses into the surgeon's blunt warning that he would never shoot a bow again.
Competition calling, field sense, and family tradition all pull in the same direction here.
Competition calling is framed as one part of a wider hunting toolkit, with attention on volume, pitch, tone, hand position, and the ability to read birds.
A vivid pintail habitat problem gives this hunter-funded conservation research idea real stakes.
Duck Season Somewhere sets the North American Waterfowl Science and Conservation Center idea beside a pintail problem shaped by wheat fields, no-till farming, and a drought running longer than ten years. Drs.
A Louisiana duck-calling conversation shaped by wetland habitat, older-season memories, and steady loyalty to the hunt.
This episode centers on Dale and Bayou Beast Calls, with the habitat carrying most of the weight. The focus stays on shallow water, good aquatic vegetation, and the absence of agriculture fields, which gives the hunting ground a different character from the places it is compared…
A handmade decoy rig turns annual South Dakota hunts into a record of family, work, and time.
Carving a duck decoy becomes a way of keeping time here, as Cory Lucas talks through how a handmade rig can turn hunts into records of family and work.
A grounded conversation about making better habitat decisions through observation, records, and season-by-season adjustment.
Duck Season Somewhere frames waterfowl habitat work as something learned on the ground, not solved from a single plan. A dry August field becomes the starting point for a practical talk about why every property needs its own read.
Rowdy bowhunting talk with real field dirt.
Western hunting, one hard lesson at a time.
Mountain State hunting and fishing talk.
Host Ramsey Russell interviews Justin Reif, a duck hunter and land manager from Ohio.
Host Ramsey Russell interviews Corey Lucas, a decoy carver and wildlife biologist, at the DUX event in Memphis.
This episode features detailed sponsor segments promoting Sitka hunting gear and Mica ammunition, highlighting their performance and innovations for duck hunters.
This episode promotes Miger ammunition for duck hunting, highlights Ducks Unlimited's conservation efforts, and mentions Mojo decoys as a leading brand.
This episode promotes travel protection for hunters through GetDuck and highlights Alberta, Canada as a premier waterfowl hunting destination with abundant game and professional outfitters.
This episode promotes Alberta, Canada as a premier destination for waterfowl hunting, highlighting its abundant wildlife, diverse geography, and professional outfitting services.
This episode of Mojo's Duck Season Somewhere podcast features sponsor messages promoting waterfowl hunting in Alberta and family-friendly hunting gear from Bow and Arrow Outdoors.
The talk starts soft.
This episode discusses bird flu concerns for hunters and promotes hunting gear including hearing protection and shotguns.
The episode opens with sponsor copy, then slips into a deer that got so close it had to be shoved out of a lap.
This episode continues exploring Texas waterfowl history with hunting stories and sponsor highlights for Benelli shotguns and Mojo Outdoors decoys.
This episode explores Texas waterfowl history through interviews and discussions, focusing on conservation and hunting traditions.
Mojo sits down with a waterfowler and lets the conversation wander the way good hunting talk usually does.
Ramsey Russell brings together Rick Kaminsky, Jim Sedinger, and Dan Connolly to argue for a hunter-funded North American Waterfowl Science and Conservation Center.
Mojo's Duck Season Somewhere stops at a Louisiana duck spot with Dale from Bayou Beast Calls.
This episode features sponsor promotions for hearing protection, hunting trips, and shotguns, with a title suggesting a focus on Louisiana's duck hunting culture and history.
This episode features detailed sponsor segments promoting Sitka hunting gear and Migra shotgun shells, highlighting their performance and innovations for duck hunters.