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Saskatchewan waterfowl hunt.
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tightgroup tiger
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Wow! That's a trip of a lifetime.
entropy
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Something to reminisce on in a couple weeks when your butt gets sore in the combine seat. Looks like a great time, and great memories in the making!
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Nothing but good things to say about DUCK DUCK GOOSE OUTFITTERS in Chitek Lake, Saskatchewan.
It is a mom and pop and son operation and they work their butts off to accommodate their clients.
We were up at 3am every morning and in the fields with a new setup every morning before shooting time. We took limits of either geese or ducks every day we hunted. Only lacking a few birds of having the limit of both one day. We averaged 50 birds/4 hunters/day.
We shared the lodge with a great group of guys from Alabama who were there to bear hunt. They were all successful and tagged out early (4), then caught limits of walleye out of chitek lake for two days!
We only got done early one evening and enjoyed the campfire and a bottle of salted caramel bourbon, and shared hunting stories and pictures off our phones until late.
I will tell you brothers that central Saskatchewan is a sportsman's paradise. A great combination of farmland, provincial forests, and lakes. Elk. Moose, whitetail, mule deer. Bear, waterfowl, grouse.....and great fishing.
The entire team at DUCK DUCK GOOSE OUTFITTERS treated us like family. Their lodge is comfortable and clean. The food was excellent and timed to our schedule. Our game was processed , frozen, and packed in our coolers according to regulations and we breezed right through customs with our birds at the border.
I can't say enough praise for our outfitter. DUCK DUCK GOOSE OUTFITTERS.
Southerner up North
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@Armored farmer, what hoops to bring your game back?
Looks like an awesome trip. I appreciate you sharing it with us
Looks like an awesome trip. I appreciate you sharing it with us
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You may bring three days limit across the border accompanied by Saskatchewan hunting license, harvest report/documentation, identifying wing left on the carcasses, meat must be bagged /tagged with your name and date.(out outfitter took care of this) firearm declaration,
FYI....nobody even looked at our guns. They did however, look in our meat coolers.....but just looked in two of the six.....gave us the thumbs-up and we were on our way......easy-peazy
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Thank you
entropy
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If it were in Minnesota it would be called DUCK DUCK GREY DUCK OUTFITTERS. Glad it was a great trip, and I'll pass the good recommendations along to friends thinking of a Canadian hunt.
Mick Boon
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I have seen no snow geese at all this year. By all accounts American hunters are pissed.
This is what it's normally like.
This is what it's normally like.
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the few flocks of Snows that we saw in Saskatchewan were really high and southbound.
We have them like that here too. Enough birds to cover 40 acres.
When the migration is on, we can see flocks appearing in the northern horizon and flocks dissappear on the southern and flocks scattered in the sky in between.
It's incredible.
We have them like that here too. Enough birds to cover 40 acres.
When the migration is on, we can see flocks appearing in the northern horizon and flocks dissappear on the southern and flocks scattered in the sky in between.
It's incredible.
Mick Boon
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According to a quick google search, ducks and snow geese spend the winter in the US and Mexico, which makes me question why US hunters come to Saskatchewan to hunt them.
I think the recent Saskatchewan law regarding needing permission from the farmers to hunt on their land has reduced the amount of hunters significantly. I often used to see hunters about , not so much now.
entropy
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Some US hunters follow the migration from the start up there in Canada, all the way down through the Dakota's, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, etc.
While I liked getting the odd shot at some passing through, I was never that devoted to hunting snows. We usually concentrated on mallards or bluebills,and always set out a half dozen or so honker decoys, dropping a honker was always a big bonus for the day.
While I liked getting the odd shot at some passing through, I was never that devoted to hunting snows. We usually concentrated on mallards or bluebills,and always set out a half dozen or so honker decoys, dropping a honker was always a big bonus for the day.
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Armored farmer
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Our home area isn't necessarily in the flyway....and we lack lakes to draw them down from their flights.
Saskatchewan has the first Cropland south of the tundra. They zlso have water to roost. It is a good play to decoy so.e birds in before they have been educated and shot at.
Saskatchewan has the first Cropland south of the tundra. They zlso have water to roost. It is a good play to decoy so.e birds in before they have been educated and shot at.
Mick Boon
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Gotcha, than makes perfect sense.
Mick Boon
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The snow geese are on the move today.
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Armored farmer
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Summer's over then.The snow geese are on the move today.
I do like fall though.
Mick Boon
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Fall in Saskatchewan last two weeks at most.
