Like DIY? Or outfitted hunts?

Ben Webster with Big Kansas Outdoors
Blu Moore Flatline Outdoors Oklahoma
Hunted the Platte in Nebraska but that outfit turned into a club

Nothing better than ducks in a field or a combo hunt with geese and ducks hitting the field. I try to go every year but it ends up about every other year. I miss it on the years I dont make it.

Are you looking at a short run to another state like over a weekend 5 days or less? Or more of a week to 2 week road trip?

I prefer to do the long DIY road trips every season. You and some of the older forum members probably remember some of my photo essay type posts I used to share from those trips. My trips would be a mix of planned destinations and unplanned destinations so it was common if I found the birds not cooperating I could call area GWs, biologists, hunting network friends, etc, then pick up everything and move to another part of the State or even entirely to a different State and eventually find a good area. This involves carrying a lot of hunting gear for different situations. For example I can have up to 75 Canada and 300 white geese decoys with me. Also camping gear for either a base camp, throw down camp, or even sleeping in the the truck kind of thing. You also have to be prepared to cook and eat what you kill wherever you light that day if not hunting with locals to send them home with. I did a two week Colorado road trip covering over 850 miles hunting from the southern border to the northern border of that State and lived off only 50$ groceries for cooking all my game and fish. This kind of trip also bodes well for asking landowners for permission and I have even had them come up to me on the road or across the gas pump and offer me to hunt their land. I mostly hunt alone, but often have portions of my trips where locals and friends will come hunt with me. I also combine fishing or upland hunting into my trips which helps to not wear the dog down too much. Some days can be one of the best hunts of your life. Some days can be the worst. But that kind of hunting is about the experience and the freedom, not the limit. I absolutely love doing this and only did not this season because of bad timing with some skin cancer issues I had to have taken care of and unfortunately still not done with that.

I have not been much on guided hunts, but for the short trip option to another State, area, or game your not familiar with, it might be best for most. Especially if it were something like a goose hunt where you don't have the gear or network for it. On my own I have hit places like Cheyenne Bottoms in KS where one time there were inexperienced hunters all over the refuge doing stupid stuff and no waterfowl present to another time where I was the only one there paddling my kayak parting huge rafts of ducks of all kinds for as far as I could paddle. If you get locked into a single destination on a short trip that winds up being my first example, that hunt and 10+- hour drive each way makes for a real sucky experience. A high success guided hunt for the same drive might be worth every penny to avoid that if one does not have the time to move and scout on a DIY trip.