snow geese

That's why I won't go to prime quarter! Lol! Cook my own steak???? Yeah right!

I would agree having birds come to a spread I set up is awesome, but I am not gonna pay someone else to set up a spread I am going to hunt over. My idea of a guided hunt is I show up, I shoot and I leave, not show up early, set everything up, then sit down and hunt, then clean everything up and then go home. I don't go to a restaurant, order, then go help cook, then eat.

I personally own a small spread. Only about 200 decoys or so. I only chase snows in the fall. No time in the spring right now. To each his own.

I agree with you musky. If your paying a guide and he asks you to help. I'd ask not only for my money back. But a paycheck! I have enjoyed guided hunts. But having birds finish or even work a spread you set up is a rewarding feeling. Never less any hunting is good hunting!

If I am going with a guide, why should I be helping with decoys? I am paying the guide to get me on the birds, not to work for the guide. I understand some people may want to help or yes you may have 1000 decoys to put out, but at 8 guys in a field at $200 a head, you are making $1600 a day, do that for 5 days and you easily have the spread paid for. Hire someone to help put out decoys. Even if it takes 2 hours to put out decoys and another 2 to pick up, I am sure you can find some high school kind would would take $100 a day for that. Hell, that's $25 an hour. Subtract that from a $1600 income before tips and you are still making $1500 a day. Even 6 kids and you are still making $1000.

If you are looking for huge piles of birds as well, I would look into jump shooting down south vs decoying in the midwest. 60 yard shots all day over decoys in not really my idea of fun, but if thats what you enjoy, more power to ya.

Their is a lot of decent guides around. But a lot of hacks. A good guide doesn't always mean you'll put the smack on them though. Snows can be here one second. Gone the next. I think it's important to ask when booking their scouting and mobility abilities. I no longer go with guides. I got 600 silo socks, 10 dozen f.b, two vortex, 30 dozen north winds, 40 dozen or so silhouettes and 9 dozen shells. It's a heck of a lot more work. But your not pinned down as much. I'd recommend south Dakota for the run and gunner. Missouri seems more difficult to access land. Guides have it all leased up

Mr. Benelli, we had signed up with Matt from Top Gun a few years ago and were not happy. He had subbed us out to another outfitter and their service was horrible. I hope that you have a much better experience than we did.

Try Neu Outdoors out of South Dakota, great guys. Been hunting with him for a few years now and have no reason to look elsewhere. Can't wait....Gettin Close!

Missouri has had one of the highest harvest numbers of snow geese the last few years. Cant go wrong with either state. South Dakota has lots of places to track them down. Good luck

i was wondering which is better south dakota or missouri? i'm hooking up with top gun outfitter this year we will be goin to south dakota last week of march. any advice would be great

I got over 12 dozen decoys and high end wind socks with real heads. Looking to pair up with someone wanting to do southern Illinois. PM me

I hunted last year in Nebraska with Midwest Migrators. Kalend is the guides name. He is a great guide. We are going back with him this year down in Missouri around mound city. There web site is midwestmigrators.com

We hunted with Northern Skies Outfitters last year in SD. Good guides, good fields and we had a lot of birds work us. We rebooked with them and we are hunting Missouri this year for a change of pace.

http://www.northernskiesoutfitters.com/

Another good outfitter Nebraska Outdoor Expierence-We hunted with Jason a few years ago. I am not sure if he is still running snow goose hunts but give him a shout, if he is not hunting he knows who are good guides and bad.

http://www.nebraskaoutdoorexperience.com/

Snow goose hunts are not really thought of as a gentlemans hunt but can be if your party wants it to be. Most people think of a snow goose hunt as they can do something that they can't throughout the rest of the fall season by using unplugged shot guns and ecallers to get wary snows in close. So most people like to put shots down range. We decoy large groups of birds and if you want to rack up a good pile it really helps to put shots down range to get the total harvest up. Having 6-8 guys shooting with tube extensions. But if you have a group and want to shoot the way it would be most enjoyable you can do whatever you want in the hunt. Most important is everyone is gun safe while in the field.

Reason why snow goose guides want a larger party is for 2 reasons but by far the biggest reason for me is so we can get everyhing set up and picked up in a timely fashion when running full bodies. If you hunt with someone with socks it's probably atleast 4 times easier to pick things up but a full body spread is the most labor intensive but by far the most effective. In South Dakota we move pretty much daily so like I have already stated but can can't state enough is that its a lot of work. The other reason is you can hide a larger party and still be effective in hunting them along with decoying larger groups of birds so everyone gets good shots so you can book more people per day. But like I said the first reason is the most important for me.

Having a good group of guys to set up the decoys, ecallers, flyers, and blinds is a lot of help otherwise it would take you all night to set everything up. It already takes a couple hrs with a group of people.

Snow goose hunting is not for everyone but we have a lot of repeat hunters. Its always a great experience in the waterfowl world watching 50-100 or over a 1000 geese circle their way down right into the pocket. We still try and get birds right in your face for close shooting.

Are these the type of guide services where you are stuck in a field with 6-8 other guys and everyone blasts at the same time?

Have some openings from March 18th-April 1st in SD. MO hunts are filled this year. Run ghg full body decoy spread and average 600 decoys per spread. Good times and good hunts. Start out just west of Souix Falls and go north from there when needed.

Offering a L-L special and if you have a party of 5 or more for $175 a gun. Or a smaller party for $200 a gun.