Of course with this comes limited availability; but none the less, it also comes with what I would consider the best opportunity to kill a large amount of birds during your stay. I would also suggest a minimum of 3-4 days, this also increases your odds of getting that once in a lifetime Argentina type waterfowl hunt. I want you to hunt a minimum of 3 days, you don’t have to do so; but I think that it’s so worth your time that I reduce your hunt price, our hunts range from $175-$225 per day (Gratuities are not included in this price and as always are very appreciated, you’ll see, these guys will work their butts off for you!). You’re out of state license is only $6, now where can you go and what can you do for this kind of price? I can tell you that I travel all over the country on hunting and fishing trips and no where is there this kind of deal and the reason for it is simply supply and demand and competition, otherwise this hunt I would normally charge $350 a day. It’s that kind of deal and hunt, it’s a place were you have an opportunity to kill 50 plus birds and more in a day and where your going to see almost every species of waterfowl, not to mention hundreds of thousands if not over a million waterfowl during your stay.  It’s a great place to hunt with kids or wives; because their not restricted from talking or moving (except of course when the birds are working) and the weather at this time is not so ridiculously cold. Cabela’s and Great Wolf Lodge as well as Kansas City are all within an hour or so. When our place is full we use a local hotel and motel, both have a continental breakfast and the hotel has a indoor swimming pool for the kids and they are both priced under $55 - $75 a night with two queen size beds. The hotels are also located within blocks of our lodge, as well as other bars and restaurants, theirs even a casino and a gentlemen’s club within minutes for the adventurous.

Bring coolers to take your game back or there is also a homeless shelter to donate your meat to in St. Joseph, Missouri. (At least this is what I was told by the Outdoor Life Network, LLC., when they came to shoot for one of their television shows. If you need information on this, please let me know I will see what I can dig up.) We also have a cleaning station at the lodge to help you with getting your birds on ice or we can freeze any properly tagged birds for you to take home and mount or you can use our local taxidermist, who does a great job and I think charges less than $200. (But don’t quote me). Anyone flying in can book their flights into Kansas City and rent a car and we are within an hour of the airport. If you do not want to bring shells with you, you can contact the Kansas City Cabela’s store (ASAP) and let them know that you want Federal Heavy Fast Steel loads in BB or BBB or Kent Fast Steel in the same size and they will put a box together for you and have it at the service counter ready to be picked up. I suggest having 5-6 boxes for a 3 day hunt and a box an a half for everyday after that. The average shells used is probably a box and a half a day; but a really good day 3 won’t be enough. I hate to say how many you’ll need; but I would say that you should always have 3 boxes of shells with you each day you hunt, “just in case”. They don’t need to be in the blind with you; but at least in the car and available because it’s nearly impossible to find good shells, unless it’s at Cabela’s. Last year between all of the groups they averaged 28.31 birds each a day, most years it is in the mid twenty’s, and we had one great year in the high 30’s; but last year was certainly one of our best years since we have kept track the last 7. We also did a count of how many “volley’s” we averaged to shoot at, per day. Now keep in mind that we shoot under 50 yards, unless your experienced at shooting farther, and all were working birds into the decoys, not pass shooting or jumping or any of that other crap, remember, this is not the number of average flocks seen over the decoys, that would be in the tens and hundreds of thousands, this is just average number of flocks, big and small that came into good gunning range each day, in each group, everyday…tada….ready 12.15, that means that on average the hunters are killing 2.33 per volley. This is important to keep in mind, decimals matter in this situation, we’re talking about averaging flocks of thousands to shoot at, along with flocks of 1, it really tells you something. We’re not very good shooters on a whole; but again, that’s what makes it so fun, your averages are there for success. Imagine what really good snow goose hunters could average, I’ll tell you, very easily twice that and sometimes 3 times that on average. They also have a tendency to shoot longer range, carry bigger guns and hunt a lot more than the average hunter; so its no wonder we hear about those hundred days. But the question is, can you do it, can you break the averages and hit the mystic hundred day. Well I will tell you, if your luck is with you, you certainly can and on those days, it doesn’t matter how good of a shot you are, when its right, its right and its your turn. We had a group of guys prove that in 06’, half the group was in their 70’s plus years of age, not seeing real well, back aching from sitting on their butts and hauling around those big heavy 20 gauges. That’s right, 20 gauges, with modified chokes and 2 ¾ shells. They did this because of their age and the stress it puts on you shooting the big guns and loads, one of the guys in the group has hunted with us for years and he told them to bring the small guns because he knew how hard it could be on you, he had had a 87 day, 113 day and now a 108 day, but that day there was 3 20 gauges in the group, in front of 70 plus year old eyes shooting the birds at 15 yards all day long. Now mind you, had there been a group of serious, big gun toting, high shooting snow goose hunters in that group, they could have easily shot twice that; but at that point, who the heck cares!! Needless to say, the guys went home early the next morning, they had had enough!. We record how many leg bands, neck collars, and birds killed each day to get our average over the last 7 years, prior to that we kept no record. We like to believe that in a 3 day hunt you should be able to get a day above the average, one at the average and one below the average and most 3 day hunts will find this to be the case. We have actually had guys come in and in 3 days kill between 200 and 300; but that is an extreme case with excellent shooters. It often can be feast or famine and there is often no rhyme or reason to why somebody shot 60 one day and somebody else killed 12; but I will tell you that our regular clients that shoot the right guns with the right ammo and can shoot well will often average much, much higher than twenty something a day, simply because they are willing to shoot at geese that are higher and not decoying well and they do a good job at bringing them down, as well as keeping their head down and staying quiet and still when the birds are working, this matters as much or more than anything!  We do not like to call shots over 50 yards, 50% of your shots will be less than 50 yards and the other 50% of those will be less than 35 yards. Because of the way, how and where we hunt we often are able to get birds closer than most all other outfitters. We like to shoot them close, that does not mean that if that particular day the closest they are going to get is 40 yards that we won’t shoot at them, it just means that we will call the shot at the last possible moment of truth, just prior to them deciding that they are going to leave. All of our guides have the ability to know when this perfect time is, I once read in a old timers book from the market hunting days, it was called, OUT-LAW GUNNERS, “the two biggest factors in killing the most birds, you first need to be in the right spot and the second is, you need to know when to shoot!”  My guys know when to shoot and if they will get closer or if they won’t, from there it’s up to you!