To our valued customers

We hunters can feel it in the air as the hunting season approaches and if you have your loyal canine companion with you he's dreaming of the early sunrises and sun-drenched marshes under his paws.

With these fond childhood memories, we at Mack's Prairie Wings have put together for you the biggest and most extensive waterfowl hunting product catalog to date. The one thing we want you to know about Mack's Prairie Wings is that we hunt ducks! Mack's specializes in waterfowl gear - period. Duck hunters choose the gear that goes onto the pages of our catalogs and onto the shelves into our stores, and that's why Mack's will always be able to offer the best selection of waterfowl-related products in the world at the most competitive prices. In fact, if you find what you're looking for somewhere else at a better price, we would still appreciate the chance to do business with you so please give us a call or better yet, stop by and see our ever expanding waterfowl mecca in Stuttgart, Arkansas.

With our hunters' dedicated help, we're continuing to grow bigger every year, and as we grow we're "teaching the next generation the heritage of the outdoor sportsman."

As the vision of Mack's Prairie Wings continues to grow through every hunter and the love of the outdoors continues to grow to each new generation--

I wish you happy hunting.

Marion McCollum

Our History

MACK’S PRAIRIE WINGS has a long history in the waterfowl world. In the 1930’s, when duck hunters started coming to Stuttgart in masses, McCollum’s Hardware Store began stocking items to outfit them.

Black rubber hip boots sold for $6.00, Duxbak Hunting coat $7.00, long underwear $1.50, a box of 12 gauge No. 6 or 7 1/2 shot $2.00 and a Winchester Model 12 shotgun $65.00.

Business was so good that owner M.T. “Mack” McCollum decided to take the sporting goods out of the hardware store and open a separate store in 1944. McCollum’s Hardware was on Main Street and McCollum acquired the building next door recently vacated by another business. McCollum then cut an archway in the wall between the stores and moved the sporting goods into that space. So began Mack’s Sport Shop.

It’s been said many times that it was the first full-line sporting goods store to be found.

In 1961 M.T. McCollum’s son, M.T. Jr., better known as “Marion”, joined his dad full time in the business. By 1970 it was time to expand again. The business was moved to Highway 79 in a 3,200 square foot building decorated with various animal and fish mounts and filled with every item for the duck hunter becoming a tourist attraction during the hunting season.

M.T. “Mack” McCollum departed this life in 1979.

Mack’s became even more of a draw after 1993 when Marion and Chuck added a mail order catalog business called Mack’s Prairie Wings. The store was enlarged to over 18,000 square feet primarily containing inventory waiting to go on the shelf or through the mail.

The Mack’s Prairie Wing’s catalog has been such a success that 2.4 million were mailed out in 2002. To keep up with the tremendous growth, in the fall of 2000, the retail store Mack’s Prairie Wings, celebrated the Grand Opening of its new location on U.S. Highway 63 in Stuttgart, AR, with over 55,000 square feet. Little did Mack’s owner Marion McCollum know that within the next years to come, the retail store and the mail-order catalog would be expanding again, and again. Today Mack’s Prairie Wings stands at over 104,000 square feet, of which 32,000 is retail showroom space. The new store is world known as The Waterfowl Mecca in the heart of the “Rice and Duck Capital of the World.”

Mack’s Prairie Wings was not the only thing expanding in 2002. Along with the store expansions, there was the launch of the “Mack’s Prairie Wings Deer Catalog” and the Mack’s Prairie Wings VISA credit card, which premiered at the 3rd annual Mack’s Fall Festival in October.

The fact that more Winchester steel shotgun shells are sold at Mack’s Prairie Wings than any other retail location in the world says it all about today’s version of McCollum’s Hardware, the name of the original sporting goods store.
Winchester Ammunition has honored Mack’s Prairie Wings as the No. 1 steel shot dealer in the world for 7 consecutive years.

THAT’S MACK’S...WE WALK DUCK, WE TALK DUCK, WE ARE DUCK!

“We grew up to hunt. The legacy of my paw, Mack McCollum, world duck calling champion, is still alive and growing through myself and America’s Premier Waterfowl Outfitter, Mack’s Prairie Wings.”

Manager, Chuck Lock has been part of Mack’s for over 25 years.

• Mack’s Prairie Wings catalog established in 1993
• Mack’s Prairie Wings Turkey catalog est. 1999 (3 years)
• Number ONE Winchester Steel Shot dealer in the world for seven consecutive years.
• Nation’s largest Lacrosse wader dealer