Four ways to turn passing shots into point-blank opportunities on waterfowl

I have a friend from South Dakota – a veteran, lifelong waterfowler who hunts a minimum of four days a week during the season – who didn’t purchase a decoy until he was in his 40s.
Indeed, he made his bones as a waterfowler by pass-shooting ducks and geese from ranges that far exceeded my abilities and maximum-effective range as a wingshooter. Still, my friend’s many kills weren’t always clean. He still had too many misses, which, I argued to him, could be winnowed down considerably by hunting over decoys and, if done right, pulling birds in closer.

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