Tori McCormick

When you open the door to Jon Schneider’s long-past days as a young waterfowler, it’s obvious he’s a man who takes pleasure in the details.
A native of Orchard Park, N.Y., Schneider, 57, and his father hunted a lot when he was a kid, especially for diving ducks near Long Point, Ontario, where they’d escape to hunt after Thanksgiving dinner.
“After dinner at my uncle’s house, we’d say thank you and gracefully depart after the dishes were done,” said Schneider, chuckling.

The Minnesota DNR is preparing to roll out a general waterfowl-hunter survey. It’s an effort to collect information on a range of topics, most notably hunter opinions on an early September teal season and the state’s three-tier hunting-zone system.
The agency, which conducts such surveys roughly every three years, is slated to mail 4,000 survey postcards this week to randomly selected waterfowl hunters who purchased state duck stamps last year.