A social media exercise on Wednesday illustrated some amusing and not so amusing aspects of the online duck hunting culture.

A&E’s new “Duck Dynasty: The Revival” series premiered Sunday, June 1. Set to air weekly at 9 p.m. Eastern, the show started off with a big splash, but you can still catch up if you missed episode 1.

Duck hunting in America has a complicated history. The market gunning era of the late 1800s depleted waterfowl populations to dangerous numbers. And over the first half of the 20th century, it was ...