Outerbanks Waterfowl is built on serious waterfowl experience. Vic Berg started guiding in the early 1980s and has spent over 40 years running hunts and charters on the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds. Today he operates with 10-15 professional guides, each experienced enough to hunt consistently across...
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Outerbanks Waterfowl is built on serious waterfowl experience. Vic Berg started guiding in the early 1980s and has spent over 40 years running hunts and charters on the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds. Today he operates with 10-15 professional guides, each experienced enough to hunt consistently across a 25-mile stretch of refuges.
The operation centers at Oregon Inlet, positioned between Bodie Island refuge to the north and Pea Island refuge to the south. This isn't random geography—those refuge boundaries create predictable duck movement. The blinds here have been refined over 30 years and are known as some of the most consistent in the country.
The variety is legitimate. Most seasons they harvest 23-27 species. A typical 10-duck bag often contains 7 different species.
| Detail | Info |
|---|---|
| Cost | $260/person (includes blind, decoys, guide, retriever) |
| Deposit | $100/hunter (refundable up to 30 days prior) |
| Group Size | 2 hunters per guide, max 45 hunters/day |
| What to Bring | Camo, chest waders, coolers, guns, ammo (steel #1 or bismuth #2 recommended) |
| Dogs | Trained dogs welcome with advance notice |
Deposits are applied to your last day of hunting. Balance due on arrival at the hotel.
Outerbanks Waterfowl books you at the Sea Ranch in Kill Devil Hills—oceanfront location with indoor pool and on-site restaurant.
All hunts follow current NC migratory game bird regulations, including non-toxic shot requirements.
Vic started as the son of a Navy chaplain who was obsessed with duck hunting. His father, Vern Berg, founded Outer Banks Waterfowl after buying Herring Shoal Island (44 acres with 5 maintained blinds) in 1978—literally trading a prized decoy collection to make it happen. That commitment to the marsh shows in how the guides operate today.
Ellen Berg, a former ICU nurse, handles the business organization side and also carves competition-winning decoys and shorebirds—a skill she learned from Vern in 1986.
The guide team isn't a rotation of warm bodies. Vic has spent decades building a crew that understands team effort. Guides scout for each other, maintain shared equipment, and work together to put clients on birds. The result: consistent success and hunters who come back for 20+ years.
Season ending 12/31/19: 580 waterfowl captured, 22 species. Redheads performing consistently. Pintail and greater bluebills arriving.
The 2010-11 season holds the all-time record for total harvest—their best year in 30 years.
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