Dog Policy

I know you guys like hunting with your dogs. I like hunting with mine too. Our rule is if you have your own field dogs are allowed. We don’t allow them on combined groups. The problem is…what is a good dog to you is not to someone else. The beauty is in the eye of [...]

February Hunting Continued

The last few years February snow goose hunts have been a lot harder to book than the first 8 years we guided hunters. For some reason a myth that March is the best time to hunt snow geese has developed. Notice that I say MYTH. Don’t get me wrong our March dates are good too [...]

February Hunting

As of February 3 the refuge says they are holding just over 450,000 snow geese. It is a lot of birds for this time of the year but with the mild winter there have been birds in northern Missouri all winter. This year is shaping up a lot like 2009. I keep saying this over [...]

2012 Spring Snow Goose Hunts

I have spent the last month putting the finishing touches on our gear. Most of our spread will have just over 2000 decoys. We didn’t bump all of them this year but those remaining spreads will have the same number as previous years. There have been snows on Squaw Creek all winter. The refuge says [...]

South Dakota Snow Goose Limit Changed

Those of you that enjoy our South Dakota snow goose hunting will be pleased to know that the 20 bird daily limit has been change to unlimited for the 2012 spring snow goose season. This change is welcome and gives our South Dakota hunters the same opportunities in the field as our Missouri and Kansas [...]

Spring Snow Goose Decoy Sets

The number of snow goose guides has exploded in the last decade about as fast as the snow goose population itself. The new outfitters are trying to find their niche while the established snow goose guides try to stay on the top. At times this will lead to a lot of hype, some of its [...]

2011 Snow Goose Hatch

I have gotten my first creditable information the 2011 Snow Goose hatch. What I have been told is the eastern arctic snow goose colonies had a hatch similar to last years. The western side of the arctic had a good hatch as well which is the first in 5 years. A good hatch all the way around will make [...]

Spring Snow Goose Hunt Pictures

We have added a lot of the pictures that we have taken since 2001 on our guided snow goose hunts. We have hunted a lot of people over the years.  It really amazed me how many stories, names, and faces I remember. I’m in the process of adding a caption to some of the snow goose [...]

2011 Snow Goose Hunting Photos

Our 2011 spring season was one of our better years. Total harvest was 5366 snows. The weather was much better than 2010. We shot 11 leg bands and one white neck collar which is a pretty low for the number of birds we shot. We also shot 3 blue phase Ross geese. All of these [...]

2010 Snow Geese Pics

The 2010 spring was a challenging season. We intentionally shortened it so I would not be away from my small children as long this year. Unfortunately during this condensed timeframe the weather was less than ideal. We postponed about a week’s worth of hunters giving us even fewer days in the field. We ended up [...]

2009 Snow Geese Photos

The 2009 season began with high expectations and ultimately it ended up our being our best season in Missouri and our second best overall. Our Missouri hunting started with a bang on Feb 13 with a 90 bird field as the first snow storm of the season moved through the Mound City area.  We did [...]

2008 Snow Geese Pictures

The 2008 spring season was a slower year for us. Weather was the big story or bad weather I should say. Storm after storm dumped rain, snow, and ice on us periodically throughout the season. This below normal weather coupled with a below average hatch resulted in our harvest being lower than the last couple [...]

2007 Snow Goose Pics

The spring of 2007 was an above average season. Our Missouri hunts got off to a muddy start but bird numbers were strong and the hunting was good. South Dakota was great but short lived. We arrived in northern SD about the same time as the birds. There was wave upon wave in the air [...]

2006 Snow Goose Pictures

The spring of 2006 we harvest 4442 snows geese. We had 4 zeros and 3 fields that were at the century mark, one 100-bird and two 99-bird days. The zeros were a result of extremely cold weather that made for some pretty tough hunting for a few days. Three of the four zero’s took place [...]

2001-2005 Snow Goose Photos

These are our early years and we didn’t keep the records or take the pictures that we do now. You may also notice the decoys are not nearly as realistic. It was before I partnered with Damian Kuzmin to start our decoy company Deadly® Decoys, Inc. There have been a lot of advancements in snow [...]

The Solid Snow Goose Hunting Continues

Snow goose hunting remains good for 2011. The snow storm a week ago slowed the hunting for a couple days but its back now. Its March 3rd and we have already shot over half of what we did last spring in just a few days. I suspect the snow goose hunting is going to remain [...]

First Guided Snow Goose Hunt 2/21/2011

The 2011 season is 21 days old and snow goose hunting has been stellar. I’m getting reports of superior hunting from hard core snow goose killers. One in particular told me in 2010 that these were the toughest birds he had seen and they were. Today he told me he has never seen a year with such [...]

Early 2011 Has Been Awesome!

If you don’t have a 2011 Spring Snow Goose Hunt booked yet it’s not too late. As of 2/17/11 we still have a couple of awesome date available.  The reports I have been getting speak of excellent hunting when it wasn’t snowing. One of my past employees says he has never seen a year like [...]

Early 2011 Spring Snow Goose Hunting Outlook

  It is still early into the spring snow goose season but all the report I have been getting from the good snow goose hunters I know paints a much brighter picture over their 2010 snow goose hunts. The birds are working much better and there are already a fairly good number of juvy birds [...]

Conservation Order Starts Today

Feb 1 is today and it’s the start of the 2011 Conservation Order commonly referred to as the Spring Snow Goose Season.  At Up North Outdoors, Inc. we have developed our own Spring Snow Goose Migration Tracking system for our hunters. Look at the bottom on the home page and you will see a blue [...]

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