How to Hunt Ducks in a Winter Storm and Live to Tell About It Bad-weather days are good for waterfowl hunting, and they’re even better when nobody gets hurt. Here’s how to stay safe and shoot a limit SHARE A single greenhead floated into our spread like a falling sheet of paper and touched down feet first. Nobody shot. He looked around at the decoys, saw our four faces peeking through the marsh grass, and slowly moved on. It didn’t matter to us. Hanging behind our canvas panel blind were two full duck straps. It was barely past 10:00 a.m., and we were sitting on a four-man limit of mallards.