Day 2
Sept.17/04.
Hunters - Clayton Kyle, Jeff Buckner, Jim Wester, Marty Bush, Bruce Pestana, Shane Pestana
Conditions - Overcast with a North wind. Fog blew in 1/2 way through the hunt.
Birds finished very well.
Limited out in 40 minutes and could have finished sooner but waited for the big honkers to come in.
Shot 20 Greaters and 28 lessers. 12 Mallards.
Great shoot, we were out of the field by 9:00 AM and birds were piling in on the other end of the field. Will make for another good shoot tomorrow or the next day.
Hunting a Barley field that had been silaged.
Using power hunters, finishers and 1 migrator blind
set out 200 decoys, mostly our fullbody Green heads from Avery (They look and worked great!)
Mark spotted the field and Brandon was the guide for the morning.
The boys are now out looking for prairie chickens and some more ducks.

Day 3
Hunters - Clayton Kyle, Shane Pestana, Bruce Pestana, Jeff Buckner, Marty Bush, Jim Wester
Guides - Brandon & Ian Kuypers
Conditions - Cloudy and quite a northly wind. Hunting the same field as yesterday!
Setup - Same as yesterday!
Birds came in a lot later today.
Harvested 39 Greaters and 3 lessers. Boys said they could of easily limited out, but held off on the lesser to get more greaters. Had birds walkng around the decoys. 4 ducks also taken. The group also shot about 20 ducks the two nights that they went out to the duck ponds we pointed them to. Bruce met a bear by one of the duck sloughs and scarred the *&%$ out of him. Also harvested 8 Prairie Chickens (Good eating) Boys had a great trip and are returning next year.

Day 4
Hunters- Scott Merin. Brian Goehrins, Steve Mayfield, David Bristol,
Paul Polhemus Jr.
Guides - Brandon and our newest guide Grant Helboe. "Welcome Grant"
Hunting a pea field that had some combined and some not.
Using Finishers, powerhunters and migrator blinds.
Used our normal spread of dark decoys.
Conditions were NW wind, cool, and partly cloudy
Birds finished well! 32 geese and 8 ducks.
Great shoot.
Mossy Oak (Joe White and Chris) is also up and myself (Grant) and my guides Mark and Barcley and Barcleys Dad, Tom all got to hunt in front of the camo cameras. We were hunting Barcleys stompin grounds and were hunting out of a standing pea field that we had to walk in to. We were after whites and used our all white spread with the electronic call. We had birds landing in our decoys while we were setting up. It was cool. Birds were flairing quite a bit and after a few alterations they came in pretty good. The 4 of us harvested 30 snows. Good shoot! In the afternoon my above crew mentioned all went bear hunting, so Mark, Grant, Barcley and Grants Dad, Leonard went after ducks with the Mossy Oak boys and there cameras. Barcley found us a honey hole of duck pond that was surrounded by swathed barley. We set up the mojo and 30 floater decoys and 24 dry land duck decoys along the shore and walking into the field. We camoed up our finisher and migrator blinds and the ducks were on top of us. Great hunt! The birds kept coming about every 10 minutes and in groups of 3-5 and we had a great limit shoot. Lots of great footage. Headed home for another one of Jeans great meals and upon arrival at the lodge, we discover 4/5 bear hunters connected with some awesome bears. It was a lot of fun getting to hunt, something we do not get a lot of chances to do. Busy but a great day!
See ya tomorrow!

Day 5
Hunters- Scott Merin. Brian Goehrins, Steve Mayfield, David Bristol,
Paul Polhemus Jr.
Guides - Brandon and Grant Helboe.
Hunting a pea field that had some combined and some not.
Using Finishers, powerhunters and migrator blinds.
Used our normal spread of dark decoys.
Conditions - Wind out of the SW. Cool, clear morning. 0 degrees Celcius (32 F)
Had geese walking around in the decoys again. Limit shoot and finished early.
40 Canadas & 8 snows.
Grant, Barcley & Mark headed out with the Mossy Oak camera boys and we got skunked. We were hunting swathed wheat filled that had a lot of Canada Geese on it. One of my guides got permission to hunt the field, and then went scouting some more and we think the farmer came and shot them out of his field after our guide was gone. Can not blame him for that, but it screwed up our hunt. We had lots of birds going by us and not paying the least bit of attention. "THATS HUNTING" Had a good time and some laughs anyway and we are looking for revenge tomorrow morning.
Later
Grant

Day 7 & 8
Barcley has two hunters this week. Monte East and Bob Nix. On day 7 they hunted a pea field and shot 8 snows and 4 darks and 9 ducks that evening. On the 8th day the harvested there limit of mostly greater Canadas.

Day 7
Hunters: James Klein, Charles Merkel, Rives Neblett, Don Freeburg, Ed Connel Jr. & Micheal Jacobs.
Hunted silaged oat crop. Had a good shoot of greater geese, not quite a limit but lots of shooting.
Harvested - 22 Greaters and 5 ducks & 6 ducks that evening on one of our ponds.
Guides - Brandon & Grant Helboe.
Tougher shoot, warm, sunny, not much wind and it did change on them, but Brandon got the boys out and moved the decoys and the fun began.

Day 8 September 24
Hunters: James Klein, Charles Merkel, Rives Neblett, Don Freeburg, Ed Connel Jr. & Micheal Jacobs.
Hunted- Harvested Pea field.
Guides - Brandon and Grant.H
Limit shoot on dark geese (42 lesseres and 6 specks) and 12 snows.
Clear, sunny, warm morning. A lot of birds flew right over the guys this morning. It was slow up until about 9:30 and a lot of the birds came back to the water about 1/2 mile from were the group was set up. The stayed on the water for a bit and them small groups started coming to the spread and that is were the fun began. It was a tough morning and Brandon worked hard. There seems to be getting a lot of geese around. "Its all good"

Day 9
September 25th
Another lights out shoot for our Mississippi gang.
Hunters: James Klein, Charles Merkel, Rives Neblett, Don Freeburg, Ed Connel Jr. & Micheal Jacobs.
Hunted- Harvested Pea field.
Guides - Brandon and Grant.H
Well Rives told Brandon that he hoped to be finished early this morning so as they had to get back to Saskatoon. 15 Minutes the guys had a limit of dark geese. Brandon could not get in to his blind. It was crazy. I have had some 20 minute limit shoots, but not 15. Great, sunny, clear, warm morning. Not sure of the wind. Birds finished extremely well.
48 Lesser Canada's and 2 ducks and 1 snow. It is kind of funny as we watched this field the night before, there was one snow goose with a couple thousand darks. We got him!

Day 10
September 27/04
Hunters - Grant Kuypers, Leonard Kuypers, Mark "Poncho" Colliou, Glen "Richard" (Long for Dick) Helboe, Brandon Schreiber, Adam Schreiber.
Hunted combined Pea field.
Bright, clear, sunny, little wind out of the east.
We set up for a south wind as that was what was predicted. They were wrong. The wind stayed out of the East. We hunted out of power hunters and finishers. Leonard used my Benneli this morning so I went big and shot my kids 20 gauge. It was fun. Had a great shoot with my guides and my Dad. We shot 48 lesser Canada's and 3 snows and 4 ducks.
Fred Zink was suppose to be here hunting these geese, but work in China delayed him coming up, so they reschedlued to come in a week and a 1/2 or so, you missed out on a good one.
Grant

Day 10
September 27/04 (Barcleys hunters)
Hunters - Robert Andrews, Alan Bell, Jack Hurst, John Sewell
Barcley and his group headed south for a snow shoot on a swathed barley field. Had a great shoot with lots of ducks and geese flying around. Conditions were a little tougher this morning as the wind switched on them there and there was very little wind a very bright, but overall lots of shooting and fun.
24 snows
5 lesser Canada's
3 ducks
The fellows are excited to go after some ducks this afternoon, the drake mallards are really starting to turn green.

Day 12
September 29/04
Hunters - Robert Andrews, Alan Bell, Jack Hurst, John Sewell (Barcleys group)
Well the boys headed south again today and got into another limit shoot of lesser Canada's and some ducks and a few snows. Using our finisher blinds and Higdon decoys. I bet Jack a $1.00 yesterday that his group would get a limit shoot today. I won. So he wanted to make it 3-1 for this mornings hunt. I am $3.00 richer. I bet him another buck that he would shoot a coloured phase bear Thursday night. Take care all and thanks for checkin us out. See ya tomorrow. We have 2 new groups excited and ready to keep the momentum going.
Grant

Day 13
September 30/04
Goodbye September and Hello October. Well we ended September off with some awesome hunts.
Our new hunters are Bob Langosch, Phil Portwich, Chuck Miller, Ron Miller and Doug Rawlinson. My Dad went on the hunt with these guys this morning as they have all become good friends over the years that they have been hunting with us. Guides were Brandon and Grant H.
48 Lesser Canada's. Very fast hunt. Lots of birds and they were acting different this morning, probably the weather change we are exspierencing. Hunted another combined pea field. We had a overcast very cool morning with a west wind. The birds were fininshing but all over the place. We are exspecting it to get 8 below celcius tongiht. This should help move any other northern birds into this area.

Day 13
September 30/04
Hunters Marlin & Chris Johnson. (W/Barcley)
Welcome to our new father/son team. Barcley took these two fellows on a honker shoot this morning. Barcley said they were knocking them down like pros. The honkers finished well. Same conditions as our above hunt. Just shows you that Honkers and lessers are different geese and act different on different days.
16 Greater Canada Geese
Great shoot!!!

Day 13
September 30/04
Hunters - Robert Andrews, Alan Bell, Jack Hurst, John Sewell (Barcleys group) And a new comer Drew Smith with his beautiful lab.
These guys had a interesting trip today. I combined last night till 4:30 AM and came to the lodge to see the crews off. I nicely got into bed and could here someone calling me on the radio. So, I got up and found ut that John had packed the van they were driving in the ditch. So, off I went on a rescue to get them out of the ditch that they were hung up on and get them to there shoot. John was pretty embarrassed but it all ended up great. The group had a great shoot with over 50 birds being harvested. Drews dog got a great work out and did a great job retrieving the birds.
24 lessers
15 snows
15 fat & sassy mallard ducks...
John and Jack took the night off bear hunting as it is miserable out, but they will give it another go tomorrow night. They have been seeing some great black bears with good size, but they are holding out for coloured bear that we are well known for.
Grant

Day 14
October 1/04
Hunters - Marlin & Chris Johnson, Drew Smith& Mika (His Lab), Jack Hurst, John Sewell (Barcleys hunters)
ANOTHER great shoot, fast limit shoot on honkers and some specklebelly geese.
Very cold last night, Had a light wind and the birds finished alot better than they did yesterday.
Clear morning. The duck hunting was poor last night, mainly because of the high winds.
3 Specks
37 Lessers

Our guides Brandon (aka Bubbles) and Grant Helboe. Grants head looks a little swollen this morning. What happened Grant? These boys are working there butts off and doing a super job. Thanks Guys!

Day 14
October 01/04
Hunters: Leonard Kuypers ( I think he is liking this goose hunting and is wearing out my Benneli) Doug Rawlinson, Chuck Miller, Ron Miller, Phil Portwich, Bob Langosch.
Limit shoot with mostly lessers and some greaters.
Guides were Brandon and Grant H.
Great shoot, clear skys with a westerly wind. Limited out very fast this morning. using our normal spread of greenheads and finisher blinds and a willow blind for the old boys Leonard and Chuck. Doug was on fire this morning and had a lot of great shots.
48 Canada Geese

Day 15
Oct.02/04
Like to welcome the Primos crew.
Hunters: Jimmy Primos, Bubba Mcphearson, Curt Wilson, Troy Ruiz and Grizz.
Cloudy cool morning with good west wind, hunting a combined pea field.
I shot with the Primos crew today and there cameras and it was a good start to there hunt.I also brought my youngest son Ian along with us. He did a great job doggin the birds and a couple of times he went off to flush them up when they were landing a ways from us. Thanks Ian! The birds finished good at the beginning and then things slowed down until the sun came out. We were only 3 birds short of our limit and got a lot of good video footage.
29 Lesser Canada's
2 snows
Great hunt!

Day 15
Oct.02/04
Barcley's Hunters slammed them!!!!
Hunters : John Sewell, Jack Hurst, Drew Smith, Marlin & Chris Johnson
Barcley set the boys on a snow shoot today, using our all white setup and the electronic goose call.
The group shot a limit of ducks, plus snows, plus dark geese. AWESOME HUNT!
40 Ducks
25 snows
24 Lesser Canada's
Total of 99 Birds!!!!!!
Congrats guys and hope to see you all next year!!!
Grant

Day 16
Hunters Ray Spangler, Shane Joyner, Mark Joyner, Swede Ekberg, Jerry Beaudoin, Francois Morin
Guides - Brandon and Adam
Great opening shoot for this new group of hunters. Hunting one of our favorite pea fields that the geese will not leave alone.
Conditions- "Tough" Lots of sun and warm weather. The birds did not finish really well this morning.
48 Lesser geese!
Great shooting boys!

Day 16
Hunters - Doug and Harold Porterfield, Phil Dame, Don Hart
Guides - Barcley and Tipper
Another great opener for this group. Harold & Doug hunted with us last year and we would like to give them a big welcome back. Barcley set up for a white shoot with a all white setup and the electronic call.
The guys got lots of shootin in. Clear, warm and little wind but the birds still worked well for this group.
18 snows
2 ducks
10 lesser Canadian's

Day 17
Hunters Ray Spangler, Shane Joyner, Mark Joyner, Swede Ekberg, Jerry Beaudoin, Francois Morin
Guides - Brandon and Adam
Another very warm, sunny day with a small west wind. We found two pea fields last night that were about 1 mile from each other and we thought we would shoot the both of them and maybe get the birds hopping back and forth. It would have worked great but the nice weather screwed us this morning. We had Brandons crew and they did do fairly well with shooting a total of 32 birds this morning and them myself and the Primos crew, Bubba, Jimmy, Kieth & Mark and our two cameraman Troy and Griz hunted the other field. We could have probably killed quite a few birds but it was not working for the camera so we let quite a few go by. The wind was very minimal. We only shot 6 geese and 3 ducks. But we did find a honey of a duck hole that we will return to this evening. There was a little pond that I never new about by the field that we were hunting this morning, probably had over 1000 ducks go into it. We will get them tonight!!!!!Barcley did not get me a picture yet, but his group did very well shooting lots of big honkers and some ducks.
Grant

Day 18
Oct.06/04
Hunters Ray Spangler, Shane Joyner, Mark Joyner, Swede Ekberg, Jerry Beaudoin, Francois Morin
Guides - Brandon and Adam
We finally hunted a different field today other than peas. Brandon and his crew were hunting a oat field that had been swathed and bailed and the Greater Canadain geese had been in there for about a week. There was very little south wind but the birds worked Brandon and his crew good enough on this clear sunny warm morning to have a good shoot and put some greaters on the ground.The boys were all happy and planning a return trip. Jerry and Francois have been bear hunting and have been seeing lots of bears, just not the one they are looking for yet.
28 greaters
4 ducks

Day 18
Oct.06/04
Hunters - Grant Kuypers, Jimmy Primos, Bubba Mcphearson, Curt Wilson & Camerman Troy Ruiz and Grizz.
I did have a nice long log typed up for this hunt and then the damn computer cashed (&*%^*%)Anyways I will do it all over again.
First off, I would like to thanks Jimmy Primos and his group for coming up and hunting and videoing with us here at Buck Paradise. I look forward to doing it again.
We were hunting a oat & barley field this morning with a tonne of grain left in it for the geese. These geese had been in this field for about a week and the sweet thing about it was that it was only 5 minutes from the lodge. We got to sleep and extra 1/2 hour. yea! Conditions were clear, warm and a small south wind. I watched these birds the night before with a big smile on my face as it was loaded with big honkers and a few ducks. The beauty of this field also was there was a brush pile that the birds were feeding fairly close to and it was going to be our natural blind. We only set out about 40 green head decoys. There was a lot of birds that flew around us and then there were the ones that wanted to be movie stars. It was a great shoot and very comfortable and different than shooting out of our blinds. (Dont get me wrong, I love my blinds) but we brought out some benches and spread out a willow blind in fron of us and hid the camerman good and the fun began. Jimmy Primos called it a gentlemans hunt. This is one I will never forget. We got a lot of great footage and be sure to watch for it on one of the Primos hunting videos or T.V shows. Bubba took a camera one day and a few of my guides and with in minutes they had a coyote on top of them with Bubba calling on one of there predator calls. It made for a neat little video. Thanks again Primos and special thanks to Troy and Grizz for all the hard work they do while everybody else has the fun.
Grant

Day 19
Oct.07/04
Welcome new hunters Mike Gibbs, Jack and Jeff Wilson, Troy Davis, Danny Huffines, Glen Hamilton.
Guides Brandon and Grant H.
This has been a great season with limit shoot after limit shoot and these boys have kept the momentum going. Hunting a pea field that we have probably shot 6 times know and it keeps producing limit shoots. Good wind this morning and this helped out big time. The boys were done fast.
48 lesser Canada's
9 ducks
They also shot 9 ducks this evening on one of our favorite duck ponds, but again the birds came in late.

Day 20
Oct.08\04
Hunters: Mike Gibbs, Jack and Jeff Wilson, Troy Davis, Danny Huffines, Glen Hamilton.
Guides Brandon and Grant H.
Another great shoot.
Hunting a new pea field today that we have been watching for a few days. There were a lots of snows and darks in this field but we went after the darks as with the clear sunny morning we felt they would work better and they did. The ducks were hot also. Great shoot guys!
48 Canada Geese (5 speckles, 6 greaters, and the rest were lesser geese)
28 ducks (the drakes heads are really looking good)
Grant

Some of our hard working guides from left to right Brandon, Jason (ookpik) , Grant.Helboe (long for dick) and Ken. Tipper is heading to Barcleys truck (probably to wake up Barcley) Are they not just the most handsome bunch you ever saw. Thanks guys for all the hard work.
Grant

Day 21
October 09/04
Hunters: Mike Gibbs, Jack and Jeff Wilson, Troy Davis, Danny Huffines, Glen Hamilton.
Guides Brandon and Grant H.
My son Ian Kuypers and nefew Ty Selk joined the group today to do some doggin.
Pea field, decent wind, with some cloud cover.
The boys slammed them again, making this there 3rd limit shoot in 3 days. Does not get any better than this.
48 Lesser Canada's
6 snows
8 ducks

Day 21
Oct.09/04
Hunters - John Sr.Wilson and John Jr. Wilson, Lanny Larson, Eric Ellefsen
Guides - Barcley & Tipper
Another limit shoot for Barcleys hunters also. 2 groups, 3 limit shoots, 3 days in a row. Barcley and Tipper were hunting a pea field.
25 lesser Canada Geese
3 greater Canada Geese
4 specklebellys
5 ducks
Thanks John and crew for hunting with us and sharing a little of your Gibson's Rare with us. See you next year!
See you all tomorrow!
Grant

Day 22
Oct.11/04
Hunters: Mike Mcfee, Jeff Mcfee, Craig Owen, James Froelich, Glenn Hamilton, Danny Huffines
Guides: Brandon and Ian Kuypers
Brandon took Ian along this morning as he had no school due to our Thanksgiving. My wife Shelly prepared a great thanksgiving meal last night which everybody enjoyed. I finished harvesting last night so that is sure a good feeling. Heading up to Green Lake today to start the ball rolling for our whitetail season up there. Mark and the boys are busy at home getting things ready for the whitetail down here. Enough about that, I have the man himself "Brandon" sitting here beside me to tell me about how there hunt went.
Another limit shoot. 4 in a row he adds.
Hunting a pea field. South wind, some cloud cover. Birds worked great and finished well. Brandon has been setting up some good spreads and they have been working well for him. Welcome to our 3 new hunters and Brandon said they no how to shoot. Good Job everyone!
Grant

Day 22
Oct.11/04
Hunters: Dane Harrel, Don Cordell
Guides: Barcley & Tipper
Barcley went after the snows this morning with our all white setup and the electronic call. The whites were not fininshing well on this clear, sunny morning, but they pulled a few out of the sky and did well on the dark geese.
3 snows
13 darks
You can see in this one picture that the goose hunting here wears a guy out as Glenn & Danny enjoy a nap after brunch out on our warm sunny deck. Lots of birds around!!!!!
Grant

Day 23
October 12/04
Hunters: Dane Horrel, Don Cordell
Guides: Barcley & Tipper
Good limit shoot for these two hunters this morning. Conditions were a little tough as it rained a little in the morning making the decoys wet, but there were so many birds that they did very well.
16 Canada Geese (1 greater & 15 lessers)
Also Troy Davis harvested this fine chocolate coloured bear. Congrats Troy!
Grant

Day 23
October 12/04
Hunters: Mike Mcfee, Jeff Mcfee, Craig Owen, James Froelich, Glenn Hamilton, Danny Huffines, Troy Davies
Guide: Brandon Schrieber
Another 5 days in a row limit shoot for this Glenn, Danny & Troy and 2 in a row for Mike, Jeff, Craig & James. Hunted a pea field. Lots of birds and rain. Decoys were wet and it took a little longer than usual for the guys to get there limit this morning, but they got it well
89 birds in total with a limit of darks and a mix of ducks and snows.
Great shoot guys!
Grant

Day 24
Oct.13/04
Brandons Group!
Hunters: Mike Mcfee, Jeff Mcfee, Craig Owen, James Froelich, Glenn Hamilton, Danny Huffines, Troy Davies & Leonard Kuypers.
Great shoot with not quite a limit today. Conditions were windy this morning and some birds finished perfect and some did not have the time of day for our spread this morning. The boys all had fun and lots of laughs.
44 Canada Geese
Barcleys group!
Dane Horrel and Don Cordell
These guys had a super shoot with a limit of ducks this morning plus 7 snows and 3 Canada geese. Hunting a combined barley field.
Great shoot guys!

Hunter - Don Cordell
This is what I like to see after one of our 3 day goose hunts.

Day 25 & 26
October 14 & 15/2004
Hunters - J.K Kimball, Darin Cook, Brad Ambrosier
Guides - Barcley & Tipper
Sorry for being late with these hunts. Our condolences at Buck Paradise go out to my partner and close friend Peter Wirth and his family from the loss of his 20 year old son, due to a street bike accident.
Barcley and Tipper did a bang up job with there last group of hunters. On Thursday they hunted a pea field and shot there limit.
24 Lesser Canada's
6 Mallard Duck's
On Friday They headed out and went for snows and the snows did not want to be there but the ducks sure did and they brought home a limit of tasty Mallards.
24 Mallards
5 Canada's
4 snows
Good hunting boys!
Grant

Day 25 & 26
October 14 & 15, 2004
Hunters - Doug Rawlinson, Allen Stephens, Hunter Stephens, Jeff Bowie
Guide - Brandon
2 more limit shoots for Brandon and his crew. This has been just an incredible year. Lots of pea fields and that is where the geese were. Not sure of the conditions as I was gone, but I believe it was overcast and cool. Most of the harvest is done now, but there are still a few farmers out there with some crop out. Hope the weather holds up for them.
2 great shoots
Day 25 - 32 lesser Canada's & 8 Mallard Ducks.
Day 26 - 32 lesser Canada's & 4 snows & 3 ducks.

Day 27 (OUR LAST DAY FOR 2004)
October 16/2004
Hunters J.K Kimball, Darin Cook, Brad Ambrosier, Doug Rawlinson, Allen Stephens, Hunter Stephens and Jeff Bowie.
Guides - Brandon, Ian Kuypers, Barcley.
Well what a way to end the season. We put both groups together today and they harvested a total of 79 birds.
51 lesser Canada's
12 snows
16 ducks
Great shoot. Some of the boys had some fat heads this morning as they all went to the DU banquet last night and a few decided to stay and hit the bars afterwards. Heard some stories and sounds like they all had a lot of fun. We had a great 2004 season. It will be a record for Buck Paradise. Between Brandon and Barcley we harvested over 2000 birds. I would like to thank most importantly all the landowners who let us hunt on there land, without there cooperation, there would not be any hunting. THANKYOU!
And then I would like to thank all of my hard working crew.
Jean - Our cook throughout the week. Thanks Jean you did a great job as usual
Shelly - (my wife) for putting up with me. Cooking on the weekends, cleaning on the weekdays, running after the kids & taking care of license and paperwork. Thanks
Brandon, Grant Helboe, Barcley and Tipper - THE GUIDES. You guys worked your asses off and I cannot tell you how much I appreciate it. I heard only positive comments from our hunters on your behalf. Thanks guys!!!
Mark - For finding us some of those hard to find fields and getting permission and working your tail off between farming, and getting ready for whitetail season Mark was still there when we needed him for help setting up in the morning and finding birds in the evening. Thanks.
Ian & Garet - My two boys who helped haul garbage and run errands for us. Thanks guys, love ya!
To our bird cleaners Carol and Heather. The dirtiest job and we sure kept them busy this year! Thankyou!
And to all our hunters that came and shared in the good times with us this fall. We have all become good friends and we look forward to seeing you again!
It is snowing out. Not sure how long the geese will stick around now. I guess we got very lucky and timed it right as the weather sounds crappy. Good for deer hunting though. We have a week with no hunters now and then our whitetail season begins. I am looking forward to that, as it is looking to be a banner year again for that. I will try to keep a log going on that also.
One last note. Freddy Zink, cameraman and crew arrived here Friday night. They had a good time at the DU banquet and then went out Saturday morning to a field that Brandon found for them and had a limit shoot of Lesser Canada's and some ducks. Sounds like the footage was good, so be looking for that. They are spotting for tomorrows hunt and I hope that the snow and cold weather did not move all our birds out yet. I think there will be lots around for a little while yet and I hope to get a chance to hunt with Freddy for a day or two. I will keep you posted on that. But this is the end of our guided 2004 goose season. Brandon has headed to Green Lake to Deer camp to start getting things ready there. Thanks to everybody that has checked this out and I hope you have enjoyed watching our awesome season as much as I enjoyed showing it to you!
Chow for Know!
Grant