Missouri or Arkansas

[overlandozzy1]

Thinking about embarking on a guided multi-day waterfowl hunt for a buddy bachelor party 26-27 season. Any suggestions on a good guide service or lodge to go with?

 

[Wheels]

Habitat Flats always produces but they’re pricey.

 

[KurtR]

I looked into green timber hunts in Arkansas a few years ago and they are booked out a ways.

 

[Kurts86]

If you look at the last decade Missouri statewide tends to hold ducks more consistently than Arkansas. Recently the weather has been milder and both public and private waterfowl habitat in Missouri have continuously improved.

This year has been weird because it went from hot and no migration to frozen solid in about a week.

The complaining out of Arkansas about degrading waterfowl opportunities has been loud for a decade.

I don’t know the guided scene either place but it’s always felt to me like Arkansas had more guided options than Missouri for ducks. The big guided duck hunt operations in Missouri have really only became a thing in the last 15 years. In Arkansas it’s been a thing for a century.

Part of it is a timing thing. Northern and central Missouri waterfowl hunting is going to peak the last week of November and the first week of December. Arkansas is really a January hunt.

 

[dr.mooseknuckles]

PM in bound

 

[Kurts86]

Also for what it’s worth central and northern Missouri are going to be hunting flooded corn or Japanese millet.

Arkansas or Boothell Missouri is going to be more flooded buck brush, rice fields or green timber.

 

[SloppyJ]

It's a toss up. Last year the birds camped out around KC. The year before that I've never seen so many birds at opening light in AR in early Jan. There's something magical about some flooded Arkansas timber though.

 

[overlandozzy1]

I’ve never been to either spot. I grew up hunting ducks on the east coast. NC, SC, VA, GA. There’s just a TON of guides and lodges charging $3000+ for 2-3 days.


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[Wheels]

I’ve never been to either spot. I grew up hunting ducks on the east coast. NC, SC, VA, GA. There’s just a TON of guides and lodges charging $3000+ for 2-3 days.


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Not any cheaper in the Midwest.