Dang pro eastern guide after being guided 1 time last year, well I guess it is Missouri

I wasn't guided by anyone, my buddy wanted to handover his buisness so I was chosen as I'm great with customers, communication & teaching which are the three most important things

When you take 4 guys and kill 8 mature toms including a double id say I can make some happy customers

When your clients are giving $100 tips and only shooting 8/12 birds a day it's bc the still had a dam good time and I bust my butt doing everything I can to make their hunt a sucess

Whoa

At $700 per day?

Ouch.

What's $700 per day?

We charge $185 per gun and we are telling folks before they come it's tuff and giving them the option to re book at a later date

OR they are drinking heavy and you have a hot blonde with you with a low neck line and short shorts?

Just kidding. Those are some good rates though.

I could be wrong, but I imagine the $700 was referring to hunting with habitat flats.

Sounds like a tough season, but I'm sure a lot was learned and folks had a great time. Good luck, and keep living the dream

Heard the last snows flying over my house last nite, headin north i hope

I'm geaded home, canceled my last two groups.

I hope for the owner season turns around he keeps a lot of money ties up in each season between field leases, 8000 full body's (3 Feilds), trailers, house rental and everything else.

We all know snows can be finicky and a PITA at times but damn.. They kicked our asses this year.. Went from harvesting 1800-2400 to 145.. < that sucks

We shot 30 yesterday evening in the last 45 minutes of daylight. Lots of migrators moving yesterday afternoon.

I was not a fan of our three fields..

There's plenty of birds still there and there are lots of adult birds but we were off the daiky fly way other than a few migrating flocks and sparatic feeders. 5-8 miles west would have made a huge difference in bird numbers. Lots of things came into play on this learning trip including a light paycheck on my end this morning. All in all it was a good experience and I had fun and made some new friends and had a lot of happy clients even with the circumstances . When I kill high field everyday but 1 apparently I was on my Agame

Its gonna be a long ride home
Sucks

Im expecting this week to be a lot better though

Na, the band photos I took made the whole trip worth it to me. Arkansas is still loaded with Juvies and the are smashing em. Mo is just running way behind this year. Squaw is now holding 600,000 plus so as long as they don't push west again they will start killing em good. If I didn't have the rest of the month booked i would have stayed to find out

Record 83 degrees predicted in south dakota on sunday.

Geese will be going canucks fo sure

There's still geese down here. Glad you had a fun and safe trip Cody. Beats sitting on the couch!

Oh it was fun regardless, just edited and printed the double snow geese band pic on the ice.

Got a frame and am ready to get it hung. Next year I'm taking a buddies camera body and lense and will get some stunning photos. My equipmentis just recreational and only good to a certain distance.

Just spent a week and a half in SD the 9th - 19th. Would agree that it was a harder year than the past. We still averaged 28 birds a day but man were the birds spread out. Had our best luck off the corn and in pastures. Varied our decoys from 800 to 2600. Was a long but fun trip. I have hunted Sd for 7 years now with just family and friends (no outfitters) and we seem to always do well. Most migrates seem to just stay high and headed the canada. Just the last two days did the juries show and we pounded them. Everything seemed to be late this year tho. Think it was due to the storm and warm temps. Even shot a goose in socks and boxers! I am stationed now in tx and have heard they are shot down here, if someone wouldn't mind, where about do the geese migrate through in texas. Was thinking of having the boys come down here for a week before our annual hunt in SD for a change of pace. Or if so done would like another gun in the spread next year I would love the opportunity.