What's the 2nd most important factor in duck hunting success?

Good decoy setup and movement on the water. Especially late season. Got to have ripples on the water.

Weather is fairly important.

Movement in the blind and concealment is big but if you're where the birds want to be, there's times it just doesn't matter.


Good shot calling is one that often gets overlooked. It can be difficult to make the decision on shoot now or one more pass.

Ducks- good hide
Snow geese- decoy (lots) movement
Specs- calling

Being able to hit what your shooting at. You could have the best setup possible with birds all over but if you can't hit shite then all else doesn't really matter

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What's the 2nd most important factor in duck hunting success?

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Gotta be flat billed camo and lots of face paint.

Lots of birds usually fly over when I stand up to have a piss or refill my coffee. So I would say those are the two second most important factors.

Management of the paripatetic 8 yr-old boy that is usually sitting, or squirming, next to me.

Interesting replies so far. Seems that of the things I can control, concealment and being still are the most important things.

I find it funny that no one mentioned decoy placement or calling when those are the two things most heavily marketed to hunters and probably the two things the most money is spent on (outside of land obviously).

Things like feed and weather aren't within my control usually as my hunting opportunities tend to be dictated by available time on the weekend and available public land.