Covert gear for waterfowling

Those of you in Michigan are probably aware that our largest tourist attraction is not the Great Lakes, our fabulous (if underfunded) state park system, nor even Zingerman's. It's the Cabela's store, down in Dundee, along M-23. I won't go into the various theories explaining Cabela's popularity, but I would like to draw your attention to a couple of really outstanding products, highlighted in their recent "Waterfowling" catalog.

First, there's the Webfoot Confidence Cow Decoy Apparently, you wear or crouch inside this thing in order to sneak up on unsuspecting ducks. And even more importantly, there's Quivering Duck Butts. Just in time for holiday giving. In fact, the catalog has page after page of this stuff, all to help you outwit ... ducks. Now, I'm a lapsed hunter, myself, and I certainly have no moral qualms about hunting, but if I was as unsure of myself as to believe I needed all this disinformation gear, just to run a fast one on a duck, I think I'd hang up my 12 gauge.