Synopsis:
Donald gets tired of Gladstone's never-ending luck so he sends him up north with a fake treasure map. But Donald's bad conscience will not let him alone...

Comments:
This is an example of a category in which the ducks are hunting for missing persons - in this case Gladstone who was sent on a wild goose chase by Donald. Donald and his nephews try to hunt down Gladstone somewhere in the vast Arctic Ocean.
Other examples are the girl raised by kangaroos in U$62 Queen of the Wild Dog Pack, the nephews in WDCS100 in which Donald is a truant officer, and Donald's fellow travel companions in WDCS273 A Duck's Eye View of Europe.

Synopsis:
Donald takes the nephews on a holiday trip to the formerly oh-so Wild West where he volunteers to catch some cattle rustlers. He claims to be an expert...

Comments:
Barks wrote many stories in which criminals were being hunted. You can see a brief listing of some of the worst specimens in the duck universe HERE.
In some cases Barks made intelligent twists on the basic chasing plots; in WDCS094 and WDCS197 Donald was hired to hunt down smugglers but he never realized when he was actually up against them. The nephews had to save the day for him...

Synopsis:
Donald is going to return Daisy's valuable heirloom brooch but it proves very difficult as a certain circus artist gets involved.

Comments:
The ducks are often chasing after a great variety of relatively small valuable objects. Some of the more spectacular ones are a helmet in FC0408 The Golden Helmet, a magenta stamp in FC0422 The Gilded Man, and square eggs in FC0223 Lost in the Andes.

Synopsis:
Scrooge lacks excitement in his life so he follows Donald and the nephews to the desert in order to collect arrowheads. They also find seven golden cities...

Comments:
Closely related to the former subject is the ducks' many treasure hunts, where great volumes of valuables are at stake. Other examples are U$22 The Golden River, U$14 The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan, and U$19 The Mines of King Solomon.

Synopsis:
Chisel McSue presents Scrooge with a legal document that enables him to obtain all Scrooge's wealth. It can be avoided, though, if Scrooge finds a certain case of horseradish at the bottom of the sea...

Comments:
The ducks have also been hunting relatively worthless objects with great vigour. Although the finding of the case was essential to Scrooge, it did not represent any value in itself.
In another story, U$16 Back to Long Ago, Scrooge and Donald were also hunting for a seemingly valuable Spanish conquistadorian chest, which proved to contain dried up potatoes. The potatoes were very valuable in the days when the chest was buried, but worthless when they were found.

Synopsis:
Scrooge's Zoo is failing and in order to get some more guests he will pay a billion dollars for a speckled elephant with a square trunk...

Comments:
In this story the ducks are trying to hunt down an animal that was at first just a figment of Scrooge's imagination. In another story, FC0263 Trail of the Unicorn, they were after the mythological unicorn.
But especially Donald has had many run ins with other elusive animals such as the clever JW bloodhound in WDCS253 Hound Hounder and a tiny, very rare butterfly in MOC20 Darkest Africa.

Synopsis:
Scrooge takes a bet with Donald that he can find gold anywhere on the globe. They wind up in the Australian desert...

Comments:
In some stories the ducks are hunting for glory for themselves. In WDCS188 'The Olympic Story' Donald is competing in several sports events, and in WDCS138 'The Statues Story' Scrooge is set on building the most elaborate statues of Duckburg's founder, Cornelius Coot.
In an additional three stories he competed fiercely against Flintheart Glomgold to prove that he was the world's richest duck.

Synopsis:
Scrooge longs to be part of the posh inner circles but he lacks the position. Then he remembers he owns the prestigious striped ruby.

Comments:
Recognition and Prestige are also important ingredients in the ducks' lives. Numerous times we have witnessed the Junior Woodchucks' eternal hunt for ranks and medals, and on many occasions Scrooge and Donald were battling it out in order to establish who was better at certain feats; U$20 City of Golden Roofs and WDCS157 'Climbing Old Demontooth' are examples.

Synopsis:
Donald and the nephews are on vacation in the deep woods and Donald tries to take pictures of a deer. But it is not that cooperative...

Comments:
On several occasions Donald has been hunting animals using a camera. In WDCS057 he was frantically trying to take a prize-winning photo of a rare bird, and in WDCS261 Medaling Around he tried to take pictures of different wild animals.

Synopsis:
Donald is hunting for wild turkeys with his old gun in the nearby woods, but they are not that easy to get in the sight...

Comments:
Well, finally we reach what most people think of as Hunting - the normal act of hunting animals usually using some kind of weapon. Barks even wrote a few of that kind of stories - but without the actual use of a weapon; two stories in which Scrooge and Donald tries to catch a fox using their bare hands (WDCS098 and U$30 Yoicks! The Fox!), and two stories in which the nephews are trying to catch different animals using their animal call whistles (U$19 The Mines of King Solomon and U$61 So Far and No Safari).
The actual use of hunting weapons are quite rare in Barks' stories. Not a great surprise, either, because the stories were written for children, so he carefully used weapons that would not upset young minds; in WDCS183 Donald uses a special custard gun to try to shoot a turkey dinner, and in WDCS259 Jungle Bungle he tries to neutralize a rhinoceros using a special tranquilizer arrow.
Stories in which animals are actually killed are extremely rare in Barks' duck universe (apart from the catching - and consequent killing - of fish, which seems to be species of minor importance). But in WDCS087 Donald went out to shoot a turkey but wound up killing an eagle instead, and in WDCS200 Donald was running a pet service where one of the nephews were swatting flies in order to feed an old spider. Now, that's hunting for you...