All of our spring snow goose hunts take place on land we have leased. We have scouts out every day lining up more one-day leases to ensure every hunt takes place in a field that the geese have been recently feeding in.
Your hunt will start well before legal shooting hours when you meet me (Mat Schauer) or one of our guides at your hotel. There will be a brief meeting with your hunting party about safety procedures, and the balance for your hunt will be collected. Then it is off to the field.
Almost all of our spring snow goose hunts take place in corn stubble fields. Your guide will take you to the field where decoys and blinds will be already set and brushed. We will have an ATV to transport you and your equipment out to the spread. You will find that all of our equipment is top of the line. You can expect to hunt from a decoy spread of 800 to 2,000 with a combination of sillosocks and deadly decoys. All of our decoys are painted with UV paint. Our layout blinds will be clean and well maintained. Our custom e-calling system is impressive to say the least. There will be 8 to 16 PA speakers depending on the size of the spread.
Once in the spread there will be another brief conversation about shooting zones and safety in the field. As soon as legal shooting hours open, the e-callers will be turned on. Your guide will be calling the shots and tweaking and adjusting decoys as necessary. We will adjust blinds, e-callers and decoys to fit any wind changes that may occur throughout the day.
Our guides will take a 2-hour lunch midday to eat, and maybe take a quick nap. You will have the option of taking a midday break or staying in the field by yourself. This break is necessary for our guides due to the long hours of the spring snow goose season, and the numerous times we have to move large amounts of decoys and blinds in the middle of the night to have everything ready for the next day.s hunt. After lunch, your guide will return and the hunt will continue until ½ hour after sunset when guns must be unloaded. Your guide will then get the ATV to transport you and your equipment back to vehicle.
Last season we averaged an almost unheard of 43 birds per field per day. Our worst day of the season was shooting 12 birds with 2 guys. We are very aggressive in our pursuit of snow geese; we are often on the move to stay on top of the birds. We have a vast network of connections in Fish and Game, local farmers and a biologist that helps us stay one step ahead of the spring migration. Last season on several occasions, we left a field that was producing 30 birds a day to set up in one we thought could produce 60. We will do everything we can to always be on the birds, and show you the very best spring snow goose hunt we can.