Snow Goose Archives

Its been a very good week. Much different than the cold we had last year. Tons of juvy’s birds. Here is just a few of the pictures. There are many more pictures just like these from this past week. We shot 1140 snow geese in 5 days. We have all the equipment to be successful. … [Read More]

Here is a picture of one of the hunters barrel from yesterday. He had dropped the end of his gun in mud and thought he cleaned it out. I guess not good enough. We take safety as a very important part of our spring snow goose hunts. Please be safe. This could have been much … [Read More]

It’s getting close. There are always ton of things to wrap up and loose ends to tie down. Combine that with a bunch of phone calls…that is pretty much the month of January for a snow goose guide. Today I finished wiring the rotary machines and started welding the arms. We have a new adapter … [Read More]

I sometimes wonder if the snow goose population is so large today that every year will be considered a good hatch. I have largely remained silent on this years snow goose hatch because frankly I fear my hunters are going to start thinking I’m the boy who cried wolf. The snow goose hunting reports I got from Canada … [Read More]

Today is our first snow goose hunt in Mound City for the year. I will be nice to get back into the hunting routine after a week of non-stop pulling and setting snow goose decoys under wet conditions. Yesterday morning we set our last two spreads. The first was in the rain at about 5 … [Read More]

Today it warmed up. The guides and I spent the day knocking ice off the decoys. Most of the ice and snow has melted. The spreads look good as new again. There was a small push of snow geese today. Tuesday into Wednesday they are forecasting 3-5 inches of snow. The forecast (if it holds) … [Read More]

The weather finally got back in the normal temp range on Friday and the snow goose hunting picked up. Today the high field was 59 snow geese with an average of 40.3 birds per field for the day. That is a good day on a spring snow goose hunt. We had a couple fields earlier in the week shoot in … [Read More]

We set half our spreads yesterday. The ground was fairly hard because of the below normal temp’s this past week however yesterday hit 56 degrees. Today is supposed to be about the same. Most of the birds had pushed out of the area with the cold last week however yesterday they started rolling back. I … [Read More]

Arkansas snow goose hunts start January 27.  I can’t wait to leave Iowa. If the rest of the month my truck reads like this its going to be a long winter here.

We would like to wish everybody a Merry Christmas. The last several weekends have been spent working on getting things ready for spring snow goose hunting. The first spring snow goose hunts start January 27, 2014 in Arkansas. I have the entire set of new caller batteries wired. The caller’s sound quality has been checked … [Read More]

This time of the year most people are focused on holiday plans. For a snow goose guides it is a reminder that we had better get the last of the items on the to-do list done because in a month we will running snow goose hunters. Arkansas snow goose hunts kick off January 27, 2014. …

In the last two weeks I have been getting a lot of reports from hunters and guides of amazing snow goose hunting in North Dakota this fall. Several have said 50% of the flocks are young birds. This is a great sign for the upcoming 2014 Spring Snow Goose Season. In the next couple week … [Read More]

We have been hunting for about a week with good numbers of ducks in the area. Refuge count is 130,900 mallards. Temps have been pretty warm but one of the fields has a little sheet water that we have been hunting. Today it was just Adam and myself. Fun morning 6 drake mallards, 4 teal, … [Read More]

On July 24, 2013 the USFWS released it 2013 Waterfowl Population Status. The Mid-Continent Population Snow Geese and Ross Geese are the birds we hunt the most but I do like to pay attention to the West Central Population as well because I believe they mix to some extent with the birds we hunt. Below … [Read More]

We have gotten a number of reports from different sources that the snow goose hatch this summer was above average. This would make it better than last year’s hatch which I honestly thought was not all that bad. There seemed to be plenty of grey birds in the flocks and harvest. The only time there wasn’t was during the … [Read More]