But thats just where I continued my passion, I guess. If the migrational flow is in high gear, guestsmay decideto wait outthat next dumb flock of snows that tumbles into the decoys like theyve never seen one before. And thats what we do. Yeah, its resident early use, starts August 15. You just got to stick with it. And I told him, he ran some clients a couple days, and he was staying out at my place in Bismarck there. Its like the little G.S.A, its just add water and growth is good. Matthew Piehl: Theyll probably make you bring Coop with and just sit around. And what Ive noticed is, hunting them in the fall versus hunting down the wintering grounds, versus hunting them in the corridors, or heading back north, something back in the fall as they start the stage, its real different. But they were spread out and you watch a group of five and a half is dumping into a bean field, half mile off the road knowing that, you cant really touch them. Other than that, me and my cousin, I think, maybe were in the part of the season that the two of us in the back of the vehicle always wanted to theres mallards in that pond, can we go bust them? And what do you do? Yall reserve opening week, non-resident, North Dakota typically for the opener. In 2019, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission expanded coyote hunting season year-round. And about that time, flocking mallards swung over the slough and was working around us and I mean, just corkscrewing and coming and getting closer and closer with every pass. Can we go to bust them? I definitely can. Two of them are from Oklahoma and one of them was from Minnesota somewhere, I believe. In our part of the state that we guide differently because they save some dates over there for later in the year. Do you all ever shoot in the fall or before you migrate south for the winter sets in? I really do. Like the one I still wear. I know that hunting up there, were huddled up in our blinds and whispering. And so, we had gone to the front of this bay and were brant hunting, Matt and I, and one of his buddies just beat the brakes off the. I spent a few years up there and I was up there for a long time. They recount Mexico duck hunting together, talk about Matts lucky horseshoe, and dive into hunting ducks, geese and swans in North Dakota. And we stayed and it started raining and we stayed. There really is. We see it all down there. Then number two, you got to look for that bill and its not bright yellow, its just a solid bill dull yellow because we know its a drake and to me, it adds a lot to it. So were running a second spread. We want to run our dates over the next year and thats just how Ive always based everything. Most people are looking for a trophy bird that they can add to their collection and we are just the place to do this. Because, I mean, it was huge for that. Every now and then we do. We will shoot some mallards and stuff. There is more theres a lot that goes into it. GetDucks.com, your proven source for the very best waterfowl hunting adventures. You just dont know youre playing? Were just coming out and that was the first time I had ever shot a crane. For those of yall listening, if you didnt know, Matt and Dirty Bird Outfitters Arkansas spring snow goose hunt is a part of our US Hunt List. Oh, its 100% of the hospitality business. And Hammer. And depending upon what theyre feeding in or what theyre feeding with, I should say, well target them. Matthew Piehl: Yeah. But Voormi is not your ordinary wool. Matthew Piehl: Yeah, most people that have experienced that do love it. Thatll be good. Well yeah, well go from there to the 60 and 70 degrees. Were looking at great wetlands conditions this year, more so than any of the other years. But Matt, I appreciate your time today. Thats one of the instances he talks about is that I steal bands from them. So everybody thats applied, actually went on and applied, has been drawn. See you next time. 8410 Willow Rd N. Mandan, ND 58554-5413. And it helped me become a better hunter. And I grew up hunting around it. I mean, right by the time theyre setting up, were fixing to shoot our respective bird, if you still had a bird to go. Theres no sex differentiation on mallards in Canada but here there is. We put on and we have a lot of local kids with that. And then I went to college. Lots of options for guns and can't believe how much ammo is in stock. Theyre not as covered up. But its different. Because of that, there is a noticeable improvement in the finish. Located 1.5 hours from either Memphis or Little Rock, commercial air services are available. Magnetic Pick Stick, Scoot and Shoot Turkey Decoys much, much more. Really great hatches. Matthew Piehl: Yeah thats a chore. Your origins? You know, we were done. I had my lab with me. Yeah, I know guys came to North Dakota college just for the waterfowl. Ive used Mojo decoys worldwide, everywhere Ive ever duck hunted from Azerbaijan to Argentina. Business inquiries or comments contact Ramsey Russell at ramsey@getducks.com. Man, I love it too. What can you see? Its like the floodgates opened. Its looking for the next best feed and looking for the best birds. Its just like, or its good as its ever been ever in North Dakota? But when we get our pushes of giants down out of the North, those will stick around for as long as they can. Matthew Piehl: Yeah, we get great, middle October. I just looked down and I said, sir, if you can find me a dry field in North Dakota right now, well go on and hunt it. Ramsey Russell: Fantastic. But we tend to shoot more divers while were on the swan hunt. We might have weeks where it doesnt get above zero. And to me, its not discouraging ourselves, defeating, to watch a flock of mallards working out there and just having to really pick over the birds until you find that drake. I dont have any choice. I did a lot of firsts, I guess, with them. There is more theres a lot that goes into it. Ill give youll a little backdrop before I let Matt start talking. And why does DBOs staff believe Ramseys yellow lab, Coop, possess magical powers? Which I believe were at the 13th highest. And I said, oh you want to go on a trip? And I know yall scratch out. But if you were to hunt anywhere up here and youve been there, obviously, you wouldnt think that that should be the case. But theres also the farmers and rightfully so that theyre still harvesting those. Arkansas Regulations: I hope youll remind me. But the one thing Ive not heard a lot of that stuff from the tundra, the birds are getting older and so on. Ramsey Russell: I aint going to let you do that to me again. Its like they start popping around the landscape like popcorn, going from here to here to here to here to here. And about that time, flocking mallards swung over the slough and was working around us and I mean, just corkscrewing and coming and getting closer and closer with every pass. Yeah. Its the last two weeks of October, the first week in November. Good. This is a great hunt. Hunters may use unplugged shotguns. And as those have evolved over the last decade, they named every one of them Ramsey blinds. Hunting is allowed from 30 minutes before sunrise until 30 minutes after sunset. Youre playing the game that youre playing at the duck and geeses as defined by their rules. Theyll go from small ponds with a couple of groups on it, to bigger lakes with hundreds, thousands of birds on it as the season goes on. Whether it be from there, from the West coast, and they had travel restrictions on, or their family didnt feel comfortable, all those funds will be coming back next year. Just wondering what those birds are looking at and seeing if theyre going to swing down wind and get closer next time. What are habitat conditions like in North Dakota this year and how might if effect hunting? Do you all ever shoot snow geese in North Dakota? I mean, Nick has worked for me and another friend of mine forever. And Id always seen birds going to another blind. Dirty Bird Outfitters spring snow goose hunts operate on Arkansass Grand Prairie, about 1.5 hours from Memphis. Thats just where were from, I guess where were still at. Were running out of it wasnt like we were in the midst of large-town America but we had clients that just couldnt travel anymore. Spirits were high leaving the field that evening. And we saw a few birds flying around. I think an hour went by and we didnt pull the trigger. Right at the critical moment, another flock slid in that we hadnt even seen. So everybody thats applied, actually went on and applied, has been drawn. Theres great waterfowl hunting. The food, the atmosphere, the service, the effort, the people and the places for which this wonderful tradition of ours is revered. It wasnt like you went to my high school and you asked whos a pheasant hunter? It was banded. Well get ahead of them and we play the game a little bit different up in the Dakotas. Permit and HIP are available online. In fact, the. Benelli USA Shotguns. Huh? A few bands yall recovered sometimes in North Dakota and Nick is like, oh I never killed one. Oh, I will be a duck and goose guide. So its, I dont know, since last years corn they couldnt get to, we got a snowstorm in the middle of October. More Categories. Which I believe were at the 13. highest. And its just at some point about 9:00 or 9:30 AM, a couple of hours after shooting time, something changed, something happened, and here they come, ducks and geese. Were just going to be a Central special Flyway. Yeah, most people that have experienced that do love it. View NEW Full-color brochure online:Ramsey Russells GetDucks.com Catalog Contact us to receive a hi-res printed copy. From layout blinds (different sizes provided to ensure comfort), guest will find themselves immersed in a massive spread of over 1,500 premium Avian-X, wind sock decoys (Dakota, White Rock and Deadly Decoy), rotaries and flyers for goose-like movement. I mean, if anybody goes for any other reason, just go see Hammer. Arkansas was once a prime location for trapping and fur hunting. Yep. I fell in love with waterfowling from the get go. Howd Matt get into the outfitting business? Whatever species fuels your obsession with Arkansas Duck Hunting, Mallard Bay makes it that much easier to find and book an Arkansas Duck Hunting . I mean, we dont know. Thats what I just say. Ramsey Russell: Oh boy, did they do it? This year will run from August 15th to September 22nd I believe. Its really crazy. Ramsey Russell: And then, the world is a pretty big place and eventually ended up down over in Obregon, Mexico. First two weeks, and then you might have a week there where its really hard to kill birds. Yeah, no doubt. If the Canadian border opens especially, Im going to get up there to meet with an environmental Canada biologist. We do have some farmers that would let us hunt them. That was me. It really, that afternoon, whatever it really was. Ramsey Russell: Because that part of the States youre in, Im just guessing, geographically you all probably have a pretty decent corridor of migratory birds coming through. I mean, a lot of juggling irons in the fire at the same time and this is as much hospitality as it is duck killing. Matthew Piehl: Running traffic and get in front of them and lay out that big spread, and its been very successful for us. And thats a lot of what we have. I mean, what led you down that path? When the wetlands first made a rebound back in the early 2010, you see all kinds of roads underwater. I pulled up and shot and I said, my birds banded. Scouting is the key to our success and it is best to have all guides scouting during the evening. Yeah, we run out of small-town run hotels. Ill go on record to say everybody knows, I love shovelers, I love red birds, I love decoys, but really truly the older I get, I have got a love and admiration and respect for snow geese that very few I guess have. And seems to me, from talking to the clients and some of your staff, that its pretty slammed done. Copyright 2003 - 2023 Ramsey Russell's GetDucks.com, Louisiana Duck Hunting Coastal Marsh at Venice, Mississippi Duck Hunting Tallahatchie Hunts, Saskatchewan Canada Goose and Duck Hunting, Texas Duck Hunting Gulf Coast Redheads and More, Im your host, Ramsey Russell. The question I was asking and I was wondering about snow geese is, Ive wondered, I want to talk a little bit about your Dirty Bird Outfitter spring snow goose hunt down in Arkansas and I was just wondering, I love to shoot snow geese. But what are you going to do? Facebook Dirty Bird Outfitters. Matthew Piehl: Anybody that I guess, has gone that far in the snow goose hunting, you have to question, whether youre completely on, Im saying its a lot of work. And finally, I couldnt really tell you what sparked in my brain that I was like, Im going to do it, but that was what happened. Its the scouting, the hospitality, the curve balls, when the ducks arent flying for another couple of hours. But the last day they were hunting, theyre two long lines out and actually pulled, some migrated down, shot migrating swans. Those magical 100+ days we all dream about happen here each February, but same as picking up a banded bird its just the blind luck of thedraw against the white devils as to when itll happen. And then, once we start seeing more migrators come back down, it kind of fires back up again. Busy as it can be. Wow, thats good to hear. In our part of the state that we guide differently because they save some dates over there for later in the year. I walked, I literally walked up to the goose but I didnt pull the trigger, I grabbed it, pulled it up. We dont know that, but we do know that their Prime Minister is bat shit crazy. I had my lab with me. Even in college, there was me and another kid that was out here from Michigan, and a few local kids that would come with us every now and then. But I know that the only reason Im invited to come to North Dakota is because of that yellow dog who is now retired. And what Ive noticed is, those moving birds really key in the water in spring. But about 30 minutes later, World War III broke loose. Aint anybody that wants to go to clean 15 Canada goose in 83 degree weather. And that youve taken a lot of his bands too according to him, not me. It can range from as cold as0 degreesto in the 60s. It was hard enough scheduling prerequisite courses around deer stand times. I always called Nick for the swan hunt because he calls them, you know. So if this is the main economy that has produced a majority of our Ross geese for year after year, after year and now theyre not showing up there, we still have Ross geese. And I said, well maybe, if Im not ever going to do it though. And they come down, they stage in a big group. Come join the Dirty Bird Outfitter boys for a premier spring . I mean, it was so wet in North Dakota last year, it was like Noah building the ark wet. They dont last very long, but weve never had an instance where a person doesnt get drawn if they apply. The whole country was kind of put back on the field, right? 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