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What time of year do you have the most success?

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Typicaly I like to start hunting cranes after Thanksgiving. From then on there are really large concentrations of birds.

Whereabouts do you hunt? I'll start talking to my buddies and see if we can get something going.

if you would empty your voicemail box i could leave you a message
& maybe i will book a hunt

Sorry about the voicemail. I've had several calls today. It's now empty.

Free bump for a big bird, y'all need to try this.

Do you eat Sand Hill Crane or is hunting them just for sport? If you eat them are they good?

Sandhills are great, breast them out and cut the breast meat across the grain into slices 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick. You can either bread and fry them or one of my favorites is to use Shake and Bake for chicken and just cook them in the oven.

Sandhills are like the prime rib of the sky. I haven't had one of those since I was a kid. We used to see them down here a lot but I can't remember the last time I saw one.

We've got about 3000 that roost on the big lake at the ranch and close to 30,000 that roost on the big salt lakes west of town. Nobody called or decoyed them back when we were hunting them, we just hunted certain flyways depending on the wind. The more wind the better and set up with them having to fly into the wind whether coming or going to the roost.

They are great to eat......

carribean jerk sauce for 6 hours....grill medium rare and serve with baked potato....

Some great hunts here with a great guide. I would definitely recommend you give Zach a call.

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Crane hunts are an unbelievable experience.

You're right Tx Geese, we converted many duck and goose hunters to full time sandhill addicts. Still have a few weekends open, and several week days.

same question Where in the panhandle????

We hunt in the Lubbock area.

Will the season run through December?

Season runs till Feb 6th.

Couple of weekend spots left Dec 11 & 12, Jan 22 & 23, Jan 29 & 30th.

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Check out my website for current crane hunt photos!

Need 2-3 more crane only hunters for Saturday Dec 11th. Will be a lot of fun, the cranes are really thick right now. Will have pics of this weekends hunt on my webpage Monday. Call to discuss details.

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nice website.


pics look like a great time

Gotta get up there this year!!

Thanks Tx Geese. Hope you can make it up this year Jason.

I talked with Zach on Monday 12/6 about his last minute opening for 12/11 and all sounded great so I found a buddy and we committed to heading to Lubbock for a Saturday hunt.
We got to the area Friday 12/10 about noon and drove around and saw tons of cranes, geese, and ducks. We tossed one of my pointers out in a public field and looked for pheasant, but the grass is very tall and very dry so after an hour with no luck we decided that wasn't gonna work. We did end up seeing some pheasant in a few ditches as we drove around checking out the area. Saturday morning 12/11 we met Zach and one of his guides Rick and headed out to a cut corn field and setup for the morning hunt. We had thousands of cranes and hundreds of geese in the area and he had times when you couldn't hear the guy next to you because the cranes where making so much noise. It was very cool to watch the birds work. We had bluebird conditions with a light to medium wind so the birds where moving all morning. We hunted over about 20 stuffers from layout blinds and had a blast.
Thanks Zach and Rick!

Hey Larry I appreciate you guys coming up. Pics from all of this weekends hunts are posted on my website. I need a group of crane only hunters for Sunday Dec 19.

Zach,

I just wanted to reiterate my dad and I had a good time. We look forward to hunting with you again; probably next year. Please extend our gratitude to Rick as well.

-Garrett

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