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For Ramsey Russell, duck hunting is about the passion, the quest, the authenticity of adventure. The Delta native and owner of GetDucks.com explains, “Somewhere in the world, it’s always duck season—even in the most remote, wild, pure destinations on the planet. Of course, there are ducks galore in many places we hunt, some incredibly unique species; but for me, it’s not about collecting trophies or accruing numbers, it’s about collecting experiences.” 

His passion for hunting was spawned in the Mississippi Delta where he enjoyed quality time spent with his grandfather who introduced him to fishing on Lake Ferguson as well as the pageantry of dove hunting near Inverness. When Ramsey reached junior high, his family moved from Greenville to Jackson, but he continued down the path, explaining, “I’ve just always been enamored with outdoor adventures.” Throughout college at Mississippi State University, where he received a degree in Forestry and Wildlife, he first began exploring hunting venues by working on a massive ranch along the Mexico border. He then had opportunities to hunt with friends in the U.S. and began dreaming about at the time about hunting Canada. He, however, attributes his resolute focus on the sport to a life-altering event.

Read Full Story: Ramsey Russell Beyond the Birds

For those of us who also feel like we were born a hundred years too late, Rio Salado confirms you’re not wrong. The numbers of birds stuffed into what equates to a 115 square-mile roam unit will test the computational abilities of your brain. Here, among unspoiled wetlands and lush grasses, you truly have the chance to stop and picture the staggering bird densities North America once held. So many birds in this place, seemingly everywhere. Among them the famed Rosey-billed Pochard in stunning numbers. Black-Billed and Fulvous Whistling Duck. Two species of pintail. Four flavors of teal. Brazilian ducks and more, all relatively unpressured and playing nice the way you’d wish, call-responsive and a window of insight back into what we once had. 

A word of advice to those lucky enough to find themselves in a place this magical: Indulge your idealistic side. Sift through time’s back-catalog of your most memorable hunts. Inside those years, find the wide-eyed beauty and the picture of perfect that endeared you to waterfowling years ago. Remember the way those birds worked when fully committed, locked up and eating it. That’s the special sauce and always will be, and it’s why you come to places like Rio Salado: To see ducks act like ducks. Real Argentina duck hunting at Rio Salado.  As real as it gets.

Read incredible full-color story (PDF): The Boys of Rio Salado, The Good Ol’ Days Still Exist (Argentina duck hunting at Rio Salado)

Referenced GetDucks hunting experience: Argentina Duck Hunting at Rio Salado

View our latest 36-page, full-color catalog online: Ramsey Russell’s GetDucks.com 2020 Brochure – Offering the World’s Best Duck Hunting Experiences (hi res PDF).  Or view the online flip-page 2020 GetDucks Brochure here.

Contact us to receive your complimentary hi-res, high-quality print copy mailed directly to you. Copies also available at Safari Club International, Dallas Safari Club, and other select sporting events.

In this issue: GetDucks Company Profile • About GetDucks • It’s Always Duck Season Somewhere Highlights • The Best Argentina Duck Hunts • Mexico Wingshooting • Azerbaijan Hunting • Alaska King Eider Hunting • Peru Duck Hunting • New Zealand Waterfowl Hunting • South Africa Duck and Bird Hunting • Russia Bird Hunting • Netherlands Goose Hunting • Sweden Goose Hunting • Australia Duck Hunting • Cordoba Argentina Dove Hunting • Mongolia Bird Hunting • Pakistan Duck Hunting • Client Testimonials • USHuntList Outfitters and Contacts • Trophies of a Feather Story, an 8-Species Run-Down of Must-Do Adventures (SCI Magazine reprint) • The Flyway Rambler, On Ramsey Russell Hunting Worldwide (Outdoor Life Magazine reprint) • Life’s Short GetDucks Short Films

SCI CEO W. Laird Hamberlin recently spent time with Ramsey Russell, host of the “Duck Season Somewhere” podcast to discuss SCI’s history, the pivotal role SCI plays as the largest pro-hunting and pro-wildlife organization on earth, how SCI benefits hunters and wildlife.  It’s an informal and insightful discussion all hunters will appreciate.

Ramsey has hunted ducks around the world and is an SCI Convention exhibitor, offering global duck hunting and wingshooting adventures through his full-service agency. Visit GetDucks.com to learn more.

In January, Ramsey was profiled by Blood Origins in the short film, “Get Ducks”, presented by SCI.

Find “Duck Season Somewhere” podcast on your favorite player or listen online.

>>>> Listen to Laird Hamberlin, CEO Safari Club International Interview, Read Transcript  Here.

Booking hunts is only part of the business.  Ramsey Russell hosts many excursions and travels to find new duck hunting locations. He’s duck hunted on 6 continents, averaging 150 to 200-plus days of travel per year.

Although it has its downsides, Ramsey Russell realizes he’s living what many would consider a dream. He travels, experiences cultures and food, and makes friends with people he otherwise would have never met. He also realizes that were it not for the explosion that almost killed him and the scars that remind him of it, he would not be where he is today.

Read Full Story: A NEW DAWN

Soon he booked out Canada. He started a website: getducks.com. He added Argentina duck hunting to his list. He joined Dallas Safari Club and breathed the rarified air of markhor hunters. Soon he was opening adventure duck hunts around the world–for species most mallard hunters never heard of. Duck hunts in Azerbaijan, Peru, Russia, Sweden, South Africa.

“If I’m not traveling, I’m here at camp,” he says. “We spend Christmas here, Thanksgiving, the important days, the best days, we spend them at camp. This is where my best friendships are, my oldest friendships.” The walls are covered with 6 continents of photos and birds. There’s potluck dinners. Club members bring a dish, share stories, catch up on family and on hunts. “I’m not a collector of species,” Russell says, “I’m a collector of experience. This life is short. It can end in a flash.” No one knows that better than him.

Read Full Story: THE EXPERIENCE COLLECTOR

Though sometimes forgotten waterfowling paradise, the eastern shore of Mexico’s Sea of Cortez…offers hunting combinations found nowhere else on the planet.

It doesn’t seem like a place you’d find ducks, given the terrain of fishing villages punctuated by desert and prickly pear cactus. But they are there. By the many thousands. Pintails. Wigeons. Teal of all flavors including cinnamons. Even brant in giant flocks feeding on eel grass on the roll of the tide.

See Full Story: FORGOTTEN PARADISE: DUCK HUNTING MEXICO ‘S SEA OF CORTEZ OFFERS UNPRESSURED DUCKS, PRIME PLUMAGE

Referenced hunts: Obregon Mexico Duck Hunt Combo and Sonora Duck-Dove Hunting

Ramsey Russell is a southern salesman, an entrepreneur, and an old-school duck slayer. He’s also opening new duck hunting opportunities around the globe for American waterfowlers. “These are real duck hunts for real duck hunters. If you want all of the other shit, take your wife to Italy.”

Many times, Russell hunts with locals who speak a different language from him. This minimizes the small talk, but they still communicate through hand signals and gestures in the duck hunter’s common language: fix the hide, the ducks are flaring; tweak the spread, they’re not committing close enough; good shot, here comes more birds. “You can put four people from anywhere in the world together in a blind, and they’ll have more in common than they’ll have differences, because they’re hunters.”

Read Full Story: The Flyway Rambler

There is something about hunting with the folks from Benelli and Ramsey Russell of GetDucks.com during Obregon Mexico duck hunting combo that redefines how wingshooting is done when it is done right…When great accommodations, great guys and great shooting come together, it is Mexico duck hunting to remember forever. The nice part is that it doesn’t have to be a once-in-a-lifetime propo­sition. Such expeditions can be repeated again and again. Bang, bang…

One morning we found ourselves in a very nice makeshift blind on the banks of an inlet from the Sea of Cortez. The decoy spread suggested ducks, and ducks it was – almost of all them teal for us that morning. During the several days of the hunt, we took green-winged, blue­-winged and cinnamon teal, as well as several other types of ducks.  Oddly, fellow hunters in another blind on the tip of a small island about a half-mile from us that same morning bagged almost all pintails. It seemed as though the flavor of duck winging by depended on which area that kind of duck wanted to check out. That’s hunting.  Two days later, George and I shared a blind in the same general area of the bay, where most of the birds we bagged were pintails. Talking about pintails, Ramsey Russell showed how that kind of hunting is done on the same day. Great guy and great shot.

Ramsey heads-up GetDucks.com and lines up waterfowl expeditions worldwide. In fact, SCI members wanting to get more involved in the Birds of the World program might consider contacting Ramsey because he can help line up waterfowl safaris for some of the most exotic species on earth. He also is an exhibitor at SCI Convention, so stop by his booth and say hi in Reno February 5-8, 2020.

Read full story: WATERFOWLING WONDERLAND IN MEXICO

Referenced Hunts: Obregon Mexico Duck Hunting Combo and NEW Sonora Mexico Duck-Dove Hunting

Hunters always talk and dream of finding themselves “in the middle of nowhere,” but rarely arrive at that destination. Even that little rock in the middle of the Bering Sea has wireless. Not here. Real duck hunters find the middle of nowhere in Argentina’s wild northern tier, where the Rio Salado River winds through the second largest wetland in this country. Step back in time to the 1850s and this is what the Lower Mississippi River Delta may have looked like before the Big Muddy was diked, dammed, degraded. This is a different kind of Argentina duck hunt. Inconvenient, slightly labor intensive…you know, like actual duck hunting.

FULL STORY: Remote Possibility: Argentina Duck Hunt in One of Waterfowling’s Last Frontiers

Referenced hunt: Rio Salado Argentina duck hunt