I have been commercially guiding hunts since I was a teenager, and hunting since I could hold a BB gun. I started my own guide service in 1990, at the “know it all” age of 23. I was in college, broke as broke could be; all I did and cared about was hunting. My father took me hunting maybe a few times as a child; but did get me started in the great outdoors.  Our family farm is the place that I killed my first Canada goose, duck, pheasant, quail, squirrel, rabbit and deer. Being from a

small community, everybody knew everybody and I was known as a pretty good outdoorsman at a fairly early age, actually making the front page of the paper for not only making the most tackles; but also for shooting the first and biggest buck in town on the deer opener.

I was first paid to hunt when I was still a teenager. I set pheasants for a nearby pheasant farm. After a couple of years of that, the same hunters then started to pay me to take them rabbit hunting and deer hunting. It actually blew my mind that somebody would pay me to help them shoot what often took no more than an hour or two to get?  Anyway, once I was in college I quit taking many guys hunting, due to all that college has to offer; but I still hunted an awful lot, many said, too much. In my second senior year, haha, I decided that if none of my buddy’s where going to pay me for my time, equipment, gas, etc., somebody would and they did. I have been very blessed ever since. 

I also help book a few big game hunts, great lakes charters and Florida Keys flats and blue water trips for captains and guides that are friends of mine. These too are also only at prime times for hot species.  Like I said, I am lucky that I have had a long successful career at this, as well as a successful real estate business allowing me to travel across the country hunting and fishing.

Over the years I have guided, captained or first mated for almost anything you can shoot or catch in the Mid Western States. I know what you want as a client, you want to shoot your gun! And that is what we aim to do! Hopefully along the way, Mother Nature and luck will be on our side and we’ll have a great time doing it. Our hunts are just that, no frills, straight meat, trying to get your birds kind of hunts, with some humor, relaxation and serious fun along the way. It’s a lot of work; but we realize you have limited days to do what you’re looking to do; so we concentrate on getting your birds and that is why we are often beat tired, can’t party at night (too often!), can’t clean birds, we do offer a service to do this. We figure you didn’t come to make friends, although that would be great and I think that we will, you came here to shoot birds; so that’s what we do.

Call me old fashion; but I got into the guide business 20 years ago to help get some of my equipment paid for, make a little money, to harvest birds and to have my clients harvest birds; and I still feel that way today. I love to hear the guns going off and to see the smiles on everybody’s faces. Most “outfitters” don’t hunt, they either lease the land rights, own the land, or are farmers looking for additional income, it’s usually money driven, but not our operation. I love to shoot these things, I love it! I still hunt everyday I possibly can during prime time and so do all my guys. When you hunt with us, you’ll hunt with guys that love to hunt as much as you and more; these guys give up many days at home or work to get beat up in the wind, cold, sun, snow and rain daily-not to mention all of my screaming and yelling. Many of my guys have been hunting with me 12 years plus and the rest for over 5 or 6 years and have all killed or seen killed, thousands of birds and hundreds of scenario’s that work and don't work to kill these birds.