Chris Venable - Owner / Founder of Duck Squadron LLC
Education: Southeast Missouri State University – B.S. & M.S. Degrees
My Start in hunting:
In the fall of 1982 at the age of 10 my mother relocated my brother and I from Southeast Missouri to Bayou Chicot, LA, which is located in Evangeline Parish. This south central area of Louisiana is known as Acadia and is inhabited by the Acadians also known as the Cajuns. This French ancestry goes back for hundreds of years and many in the area speak Cajun-French. I was introduced to hunting and fishing by my stepdad, who was a Cajun from this area. The skills I learned from the Cajuns were instrumental in shaping my character for the rest of my life and are now being passed down to my sons.
Current Day:
I reside in Southeast Missouri along the banks of the Mississippi River. I’m now running my own company after my retirement from firefighting and search & rescue work. Aside from hunting, art is another passion of mine. Since I enjoy art and hunting, I combined the two passions to develop effective camouflage patterns. My company offers two camouflage patterns I personally designed over the course of several years. The patterns have been field tested extensively to ensure they blend with a variety of habitats. The hats on this website showcase those patterns and are American made. Hunting is an American Tradition and I want to provide American made apparel for that tradition. We at Duck Squadron appreciate you in keeping an American tradition alive and your loyalty to American made products.
