Ducks in Cajun Gravy with Jean-Paul Bourgeois

Video: Ducks in Cajun Gravy with Jean-Paul Bourgeois

This recipe, like many other Cajun dishes, is rooted in simple ingredients cooked in a way that brings out as much of their flavor as possible. Most households in Louisiana have similar recipes varying from family to family and using a broad spectrum of wild game based on availability. For the most part when I was growing up, ducks were the game of choice. Brown gravies like this one often graced our dinner table once a week.

How to Kill a Limit of Ducks in a Snowstorm

Duck hunters have a romance about snowstorms that most other hunters don’t share. If you ask a duck hunter what some of their favorite conditions are, they’ll almost unanimously love blizzards. The reason for this is because snowstorms invoke a level of urgency in waterfowl that you don’t see very often, and many times they decoy with reckless abandon in the snow and wind. It's why those who survived the Armistice Day blizzard that killed dozens...

Video: Owl Lands in Tree with Bowhunter

Hunter Lindsey was hanging in a treestand in Kentucky when he was joined by an unexpected guest. "I had a coyote coming in that I wanted to shoot, but a small buck stepped out in the trail further down from me," Lindsey told MeatEater. "He started to turn around so I started to mouse squeak, hoping it would make him come back towards me again." The mouse squeak worked apparently, but not on the intended critter. "While I was squeaking that owl...