Need some info guys

[brandon558]

next fall me and a few others are wanting to go on a top notch week of wing shooting.

I know alot depends on water levels and you never know untill the time comes where the best place to hunt will be next fall.

I would like to hear from you guys that have been to ND, SD, Canada, AR, wherever. Am looking for good lodging and good guides and a variety of hunting if possible. ducks, geese, quail, pheasant. Yaw know what i mean.

Thanks in advance..open ears.

[mrfishy]

for $1500 I can put you on some world class merganser hunting. One full week of hunting with one week stay at the condo.

Let me know if your interested

[Captain Jay Kavanagh]

Yum, them Mergansers is good eatin.

HairyHeads.

I am interested too, I did a Canada trip this year, and we kind of missed the birds.

[Going Deep]

Canada or ND require no guides to kill birds. Just a long drive out there and a lot of window time scouting to find birds. Access to land is not a problem in either location, just a knock on a door and some nice southern courtesy go a long way with those folks. Been doing the ND thing for eight years now and have been turned down less than a handfull of times and only then due to the cattle they had feeding in the fields which I can respect. October is probably the most predictable time to go but weather changes from one year to the next, we have experienced snow storms, short sleave weather and drought while stacking green heads in dry fields which is our preferred way of hunting.

If you want to hunt more and scout less a guide is definately worth the money, we just enjoy the whole deal with finding the birds, securing permission and stacking them the next morning. Best of luck with your decision

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[WAHOONBOX]

DAVE SIKORSKI DOES AN INEXPENSIVE HUNT UP NORTH EVERY YEAR....HE SAYS IT IS THE COOLEST GIG

MAYBE HE CAN SHARE INFO

[brandon558]

Canada or ND require no guides to kill birds. Just a long drive out there and a lot of window time scouting to find birds. Access to land is not a problem in either location, just a knock on a door and some nice southern courtesy go a long way with those folks. Been doing the ND thing for eight years now and have been turned down less than a handfull of times and only then due to the cattle they had feeding in the fields which I can respect. October is probably the most predictable time to go but weather changes from one year to the next, we have experienced snow storms, short sleave weather and drought while stacking green heads in dry fields which is our preferred way of hunting.

If you want to hunt more and scout less a guide is definately worth the money, we just enjoy the whole deal with finding the birds, securing permission and stacking them the next morning. Best of luck with your decision

The freelance thing would be my choice as well..only problem is its hard enough to take a week off of work but mainly school. So i plan to just get a guide untill im out of school due to time sake.

Keep em coming guys..thanks.

[Going Deep]

I just got back from my lease in Arkansas and the birds were there in good numbers. Every duck hunter needs to experience a true green timber hunt and Arkansas ranks at the top. This might be an option as well but if timber is what you want to hunt do your homework and make sure you specify that with the outfitter as most hunt fields. Water is down this year but it is just now coming into the wet season for them, when it is right, nothing and I mean nothing tops hundreds upon hundreds of mallets circling and dropping into the hole in the timber

[Capt. Terry]

BEEN THINKING ABOUT IT FR YEARS MY SELF......GREAT TOPIC....I AM ALL EARS...
I HAD 5 FRIENDS THIS OCTOBER FROM MY LOCAL TOWN THAT WENT TO CANADA....NO GUIDE .... HUNTED ON PUBLIC LAND AND WHAT NOT.....128 DUCKS.....7 GEESE.....LOADS OF SPECKALBELLIES,,,,,,JUST 1 KILL THEY SAID......SAID THEY WERE THE WEARIEST BIRDS THEY HAVE EVER SEEN......
THEY TOLD ME IT WAS AN EXTREMELY DRY YEAR UP THERE AND NO WATER HARDLY ANYWHERE.......FIELDS WERE PICKED CLEAN OF GRAIN AND THEY COULD NOT GET BIRDS TO WORK 'EM....
I AM SURE THAT EACH YEAR IS INDIFFERENT TO ITS OWN UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS AND WHAT NOT....I HAVE HEARD LOTS OF GREAT STORIES FROM THAT SD, ND, KANSAS, CANADA REGION.....GOOD LUCK.