Hunter’s Journal

Kansas has a few less gobbles

Posted by Wes on 13 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Turkey

See trophy room for beter photo and bearded hen

The first day was extremely tough hunting due to 35 mph winds and the 40 degree temps. We saw alot of birds but just couldn’t get them to work. The second morning looked to hold more of the same. Later in the morning we found the birds down in the thick cedars. Mikes tom decided that he liked our calls and started moving toward us, it was not very long after hearing the birds that we had him insight he worked to within about15 - 20 yrds and gave Mike a clean shot, we celebrated another better than 10 inch beard.

After taking care of the tom we headed back ouy for bird number two. We set up near a roost and just waited the birds out there was about 11 hens 4 of which had beards, and strangely enough two of them were gobbling with the tom. The birds finally worked their way across the field and Mike decided to take one of the of the bearded hens to spice up the taxidermy work. We had to work for those two birds and we put alot of miles on our legs, thanks Mike for the great day and hop to see you another day.

later Scott

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Scott gets Taylor a bird for the KS youth season

Posted by Wes on 09 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Turkey

See turkey trophy room

Here is a post from guide Scott Engstrom on our KS location

My two sons Taylor and Brayden went out on the opening morning with a little bit of a late start so we let the birds pick their way out of the field. Once the birds moved away we let them settle into a secluded pasture and we snuck in on the birds. After getting set up we only had to call for about 5 minutes before 6 different birds came running in to about 15 yards. We were hidden well in some short cedars and the birds had no idea that we were there. Taylor made a great shot and the hunt was over. It was Braydens first time to ever go turkey hunting, I am pretty sure that he is hooked now!

See you in KS, Scott

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2008 Canada Season goes out Big Time!!!!!!!! with T&G

Posted by Wes on 18 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Waterfowl

Words from our last clients of the season:

Wow guys, What a way to end the season hunting with Atkinsons Expeditions ( www.atkinsonexpeditions.com ) . His guides, Travis, Chris, Craig and dogs – Remington and Trip did a great job and worked hard. Toward the end of the last day we had 5 geese come in and 4 geese fell. We counted only 3 when all was said and done Why? - One goose that a dog brought in got up and took off. We just stood their dumbfounded but actually it is pretty funny when we think about it.

Over all we shot 55 geese or so though we lost a few. No bands but maybe next time. We saw a ton of Snows and Canadas. Great for our last hurrah of the season!

BRING ON THE SNOWS

Shaun

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Waterfowl Update

Posted by Brady on 10 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Waterfowl



It’s the middle of January and the birds that have been here for the last month have been hunted hard and know where to go and not to go by now.

The saving grace is the weather has warmed up for the last 10 days and the forecast for the next week is warm and cloudy. This is going to help tremendously as the snow melts off the fields exposing the once snow-covered corn fields, allowing more birds to take advantage of different locations.

There has been a massive influx of birds showing up in the “Golden Triangle” as well as the Eastern Plains. The best report I’ve heard in a month is that there are 3,000+ mallards using one of our fields out east. Can’t tell you where but would be obliged to take you there!

This warming trend has brought on an onslaught of new birds migrating out of Montana and Wyoming where they’d been rafted up for the last 3-4 weeks. My gut feeling is that as long as the weather continues to stay warm and stabilize that these birds will not feel the need to move any farther south. You might want to book while the hunting is good and the numbers are growing daily before mother nature throws us another curve ball of weather and sends them south again.

We all remember what happened on December 10th! Colorado lost over 50% of its waterfowl population in one night and what was left scattered all over the state making this one of the toughest hunting seasons I can recall.

Stay safe, have fun and we’ll see you in the field,

Brady

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Kansas Happenings

Posted by Rachelle on 09 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: General



Jan. 1-6 was a fun time for several father/son and father/daughter teams (like the one above!) who traipsed to our beautiful setting in southeast Kansas for the late doe season. All had a fantastic experience while helping us manage the deer populations there. Our focus at the Kansas cabin now turns to predator and waterfowl hunters! Calling all waterfowl hunters: Kansas is super-hot right now - five to ten thousand snow geese landing in our fields every day, and Canadas besides. If you’ve got the itch, call us!

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Cart-wheeling Birds!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Wes on 18 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Waterfowl



Hunt Report 12/15/2007

The last few weeks have been great. There birds in Colorado have been here a while and were starting to get stale. They had been shot at and were beginning to wise up to the game. Then we got what all waterfowl hunters dream of (SNOW). With the cold weather up North and the snow along the Front Range the hunting has been great the last week. Lots of new “Big” birds have moved into the state and they are very mixed up right now. The thing we need now is to get some nice weather to keep out birds here now and continue the grindage!

We had consistent duck hunting until our ponds froze and now we will be concentrating on our warm water slews and fields for the Mallards. The goose hunting has been as good as it gets the last week or so. With limits being the norm and happy hunters all the way around. We just finished out Hunting Down Cancer hunt. All of the proceeds from the hunt are donated to the Lance Armstrong Foundation. We hunted with Avery Pro-Staffer Doug Steinke and his crew. The hunting was fantastic and a great day was had by all. Look for this hunt on the 2008 DVD Migration Madness. We have been getting excellent footage for this new DVD. Doug also took some fantastic action shots of the hunt and they will be posted in the picture section as soon as possible. Doug is a very talented photographer and we are very pleased to have his pictures on our site.

Dates are filling fast for the remainder of the season. Don’t wait until it’s too late to book your prime date for your next outing.   Feel free to contact T&G Outdoors or Atkinson Expeditions to book your prime date and have the trip of a lifetime!

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