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re: Saskatoon Trip
Posted on 10/28/26 at 8:55 am to No Colors
Posted on 10/28/26 at 8:55 am to No Colors
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It's not like down here where every hunting club has a fleet of SXS and everyone has one. But my guess is that the reputable guides are properly equipped.
It's also a whole lot more efficient to pull an enclosed trailer into a field, unload, and setup, than it is to fool with a SXS or a four wheeler. Especially if you have to get deep into a field.
Posted on 10/28/26 at 9:06 am to bluemoons
No doubt. The difference between being able to drive a couple of trucks and trailers out to your spot and set up that way, versus having to tow everything in skids behind SXS is huge. Like the difference between 45 min setup and a 2 hour setup.
It's exactly the reason I dont snow goose hunt in the spring. The idea of doing that with hundreds of decoys is just too much.
It's exactly the reason I dont snow goose hunt in the spring. The idea of doing that with hundreds of decoys is just too much.
Posted on 10/28/26 at 12:28 pm to bluemoons
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It's also a whole lot more efficient to pull an enclosed trailer into a field, unload, and setup, than it is to fool with a SXS or a four wheeler. Especially if you have to get deep into a field.
This isn't a problem in Canada because those young birds ain't wise to the ways of the world yet but in the panhandle of Texas and in New Mexico and Colorado driving a truck and trailer into a field makes decoying birds far less easy because no matter how well hidden your blinds are it is damn near impossible to hide the tracks of a truck and trailer across a field. It is almost a total deal breaker with cranes in that area. The outfitters do it because their customers would not have it any other way but they also have access to almost everything and can hunt fields this morning that had birds in them last night every day of the season. If you have access to just a section or so it is really noticeable if there are tire tracks in the field right into or adjacent to the spread. Its REALLY bad in New Mexico where there are far fewer birds and a lot of area for them to go because of the lack of pressure.
Posted on 10/28/26 at 1:03 pm to AwgustaDawg
I was referring to Canada. The outfitters do it because like NC said, it’s what makes sense. Using a SXS or four wheeler to get hundreds of yards into a field with the gear that it takes to set up for 10+ hunters is a task and would add hours to the setup, especially with a group that doesn’t help set up.
I don’t have any experience hunting in Texas but I know Cadillac Creek regularly hunts crane groups of 20+ guys out of a giant trailer blind.
I don’t have any experience hunting in Texas but I know Cadillac Creek regularly hunts crane groups of 20+ guys out of a giant trailer blind.
Posted on 10/28/26 at 1:14 pm to bluemoons
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I was referring to Canada. The outfitters do it because like NC said, it’s what makes sense. Using a SXS or four wheeler to get hundreds of yards into a field with the gear that it takes to set up for 10+ hunters is a task and would add hours to the setup, especially with a group that doesn’t help set up.
I don’t have any experience hunting in Texas but I know Cadillac Creek regularly hunts crane groups of 20+ guys out of a giant trailer blind.
Large groups is why outfitters do in Texas as well but in Texas it will only work if you have LOTS of area to access so you can set up in fields that birds were using the evening before. If you are like most DIYers you don't have access to that kind of acreage and are limited and unless you are fortunate the number of birds that may or may not have been using the fields you have access to last night will probably be far smaller and harder to decoy if there are tire marks leading into the spread or adjacent to it. Outfitters will also often times set up close to a pivot irrigation well and may even use it for part of their blind....it works because they can look at hundreds of such places and set up on the ones birds were using last night. It works in Canada because the birds are babies and haven't been shot at every morning for 4 months. It works in the area I was talking about because the outfitters can be choosy about where they want to set up.....when you have 20 potential Xs you don't have to set up on a marginal X like you do when you have maybe 2-3 Xs and some sort of close to the Xs. Tire treads in a field will flare birds in that situation. Not so much when they want in no matter what. Most DIYers in Canada wont have access like outfitters will have.
Posted on 10/28/26 at 1:16 pm to No Colors
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It's still in the messy stage right now. Lows in the 20s and highs in the 30s and snow doesn't freeze the ground
That makes sense. I was thinking it was still cold, and the snow just was the precipitation. I'm used to hunting the midwest where the ground is hard whether its got snow or not much of the time.
I'd also guess that's what makes the hunting harder and why there's less birds killed. When the set ups are harder to do right, people just don't do it as much. The guides are probably setting up different and its just not as effective.
Posted on 10/28/26 at 4:27 pm to dimestore3
why not whitetail? Rut is finna get going.
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