August 3, 2026 — MUSKEGON, Mich. – Wood ducks don’t fly in from the prairies like teal or work a big spread from altitude like divers. They live in the timber. Flooded oaks, beaver ponds, backwater sloughs, little tucked-away holes barely big enough to swing a gun in.
That’s a different game entirely. When you’re hunting wood ducks, they’re not passing over your spread from 200 feet up. They’re dropping in tight, low, and close, sometimes right on top of you before you even hear the whistle.
Close range means close inspection. A decoy that gets away with a color crayon paintjob out on open water gets picked apart in a wood duck hole, because there’s nowhere for a bad detail to hide.
Hardcore’s Rugged Series Wood Duck Decoys were built with that in mind. Six to a pack, four drakes and two hens, each one carrying the kind of paint and feather detail that must hold up at arm’s length, not just from a distance.
