Guided Hunts

	We Work For You!
	A Typical Guided Hunt
	Ducks
	Snows & Specks
	Canadas

We work for you!

When you hunt with Ducks Everywhere, you decide what you want us to do (or not do) for you!  You tell us how you want to hunt, and we'll do it.  For example: You can do all of the calling, or none of it; You can call your own shots, or let us call them for you; If you want your birds "in the dekes", we'll do our best to put 'em there; on the other hand, if you like to shoot your birds as soon as they're in range, that's fine too, provided there's no "skybusting".  When the hunt’s over, you'll know you killed your birds, because we will never shoot first.  In fact, we won't even shoot at all if you don't want us to.  The bottom line is: We work for you!

A Typical Guided Hunt

Generally speaking, a typical hunting trip with Ducks Everywhere begins with us coming by to meet you after you check in at the Holiday Inn.  From there, we’ll all go to dinner to swap hunting stories and make plans for the following morning, when we’ll pick you up at the Hotel to take you to our selected spot for the day.  Once there, we’ll take you out to the blind in one of our boats or ATVs.  At the blind, we’ll strategically place decoys while you settle in for the morning hunt.  Later that morning, depending on which blind we’re hunting, we’ll often cook up a southern style breakfast for all to enjoy.

The morning hunt will end once we’ve got a limit of ducks or about lunchtime, whichever comes first.  From there it’s back to town for some lunch.  After a good meal, it’s time to clean ducks and head out for the afternoon.  If you choose not to hunt the afternoon, you’re invited to relax or take a nap while we do our scouting for the next day.  That evening, it’s back for dinner to do it all over again.

Ducks

It’s no surprise that most everyone comes to Arkansas to shoot mallard ducks and for the most part, that’s exactly what we kill day in and day out.  You can, however, expect to kill a few wood ducks in our timber holes and some teal and gadwalls in our fields and sloughs.  You’re also likely to kill pintails, widgeon, shovelers, and an occasional black duck.  (Yes, you can shoot spoonies, after all. . . spoonies are “greenheads” too!)  Other species of ducks are also taken every year, but by and large, mallards, teal, gadwalls, and woodies will comprise most bags.  It is not uncommon to kill a limit of mallards and have to wait to kill your “other” ducks to round out your bag.

Snows and Specks

Snow geese, Blue geese, Ross’ geese, and White-Fronted “Specklebelly” geese

Every year a few lucky groups of hunters get to shoot incredible numbers of snow, blue, and specklebelly geese as an added bonus to their Arkansas duck hunt.  Occasionally a handful of snows, blues, and specks will be shot from one of the duck blinds, but to really kill geese good numbers of geese you have to specifically be hunting them.  This can often be successfully accomplished by either decoying them into gun range or jump shooting them off of a field.

Decoying geese properly involves several days of scouting and getting permission to hunt the fields the geese are using at the time.  Once the geese are found and the permission’s obtained, hundreds of decoys must be set out while the birds are gone to roost.  A good snow goose hunt over decoys provides some of the most exciting hunting around.

Ducks Everywhere used to decoy and guide snow goose hunts on a pretty regular basis, but because of the tremendous amount of time it took to prepare for a successful snow goose hunt, Brent and Richie have recently concentrated their efforts primarily on the ducks.

To kill absolutely incredible numbers of snows and blue geese, however, nothing can beat a good Arkansas jump shoot.  This is done by finding a huge concentration of geese feeding near a ditch or other cover that enables you to sneak up on them and then ambush them at close range.  This can provide one of the most exhilarating experiences imaginable.  Kills of 20 birds or more by each gunner have been taken – with an average of about 7 - 12 each being the norm.  This method of hunting involves covering a lot of ground over known snow goose areas to find the large concentrations.  Once the geese are found, it then becomes a matter of finding geese that can be snuck up on in a place where we have or can get permission to hunt.  Then the real work begins!  If you’re willing to hunker down and crawl for several hundred yards through whatever nearby ditch may be available, you’re ready for the time of your life!  This is often a good way to spend an afternoon hunt.

Canadas

Arkansas is not well known for it Canada goose hunting, and generally speaking, for good reason.  There is, however, one well-kept secret on the Arkansas River in the western part of the state that provides consistent action for the big birds

Big Birds Hunting Club is the Arkansas Hunting Federation sister club to Ducks Everywhere.  For years Brent Bryant, Richie Foster, Ryan Rogers, and Duane Poorman have guided hunters on Canada goose hunts over one of the most impressive spreads in the state.

During the late January season, members of Ducks Everywhere and their guests often enjoy a trip to our cabin on the Arkansas River to enjoy some hot Arkansas honker action in the river valley.