GALLERY

SPRING 2011

The 2011 spring conservation season was one to remember!  Missouri started off questionable the first few days as we were greeted by nasty blizzard conditions the last week in February.  It dumped eight inches of snow on us.  With dedication and hard work we emptied out all the spreads that were full up on snow and had one of the best shoots of the spring in whiteout conditions! From then on Missouri was incredible with dry conditions, large concentrations of birds in the area, and large numbers of juvies in the flocks.  This all equated to the best spring to date in Missouri!  On the other hand South Dakota made us earn it this spring.  Flooding was a major issue in the northern third of the state.  We put on numerous miles and found an abundant number of road closed signs in the attempt to find what we would even call a huntable field.  Once we found some high ground and large concentrations of birds, it was game on again!  We stuck South Dakota out longer this year and were very mobile tracking down the few juvy feeds that remained in the state.  In the end the gamble paid off with some of our best days of the spring.  To wrap up the year we moved up to North Dakota with some good friends and ended the year with a few great hunts!  The 2011 season was a huge success for us, all the way from putting down the largest number of birds in one season to date or the great memories we made with awesome clients and friends!

SPRING 2010

Ended up to be one of the hardest seasons on record just south of the North Dakota line!  Weather made this spring tough.  It started out looking good until Northern MO got hammered with snow and cold the last week of Feb.  This pushed us south as well for a couple weeks.  Then the weather man finally struck again around mid March with a sting of really mild temps and pushed the geese through South Dakota in no time!  We had to work for the birds this year putting on the miles scouting trying to stay underneath the white mass!  The scouting paid off with multiple days in the double digits and a few around or over the triple digits mark!   Unfortunately with the birds moving so fast through the states we had our tough days where the birds just wanted to keep on migrating and we could not buy a nice shoot, with outcomes in the single digits. The 2010 spring had plenty of successful hunts and memorable moments with awesome clients and great friends!

SPRING 2008

2008 over all was a challenging season. We were left a little short on resources in Missouri and the hatch was lower from the previous year resulting in lower numbers of juvenile birds. Despite the tough conditions we managed to grind it out into a descent season. The weather was typical with a late spring snow storm but overall some really nice weather days for shooting. We had a few memorable hunts with some great clients and better shooting.