| Missouri offers a perfect habitat for geese and | | | | experienced staff, the decoys and equipment, you |
| waterfowl. Thousands of acres of crop stubble, river | | | | only need to bring along your skills. It is not difficult |
| basins, watersheds, and wetlands are available for | | | | to find lodging around the hunting sites. |
| the fowl to winter in. Missouri is also a haven for | | | | Many hunters prefer to hunt using layout style blinds |
| snow goose and waterfowl hunters. The western | | | | that have over the seasons earned a reputation for |
| half of Missouri where the lower Missouri River | | | | being easily hidden and offering the best value for a |
| sub-basins exist offer hunters excellent duck and | | | | hunter's time and effort. Light geese, white-fronted |
| geese shooting opportunities. Swan Lake Refuge, | | | | geese, Canada geese are the goose types that you |
| Fountain Grove Conservation Area and the Grand | | | | can bag in Missouri. Mallards, wood ducks, pintails, and |
| Pass Conservation Area around 120 miles to the | | | | redheads are also plentiful. |
| north of Kansas City are excellent hunting grounds. | | | | Abundance of snow geese and waterfowl mean that |
| 45 miles north of St. Joseph is Squaw Creek Refuge | | | | you are rarely denied a chance of hunting with an |
| where snow geese congregate in large numbers as | | | | outfitter. A major advantage of hunting with a guide |
| they migrate north during the spring season. | | | | is that they are aware of the locations where game |
| Usually, hunters favor crop fields, farm ponds, and | | | | is bountiful; this is important because even though |
| watershed lakes as these are the places where | | | | the habitat extends over a large area and it is not |
| game abounds. The hunting experience in Missouri is | | | | necessary that the geese should be present at the |
| truly unique as the hunter is spoilt for choice. Fall and | | | | area you chose for your hunt. If you are going to |
| spring are the hunting seasons and you can either | | | | hunt for a day or two in the season, you want to |
| hunt on your own or sign up with outfitters for such | | | | make it a memorable and successful two days. |
| hunts. The best time for hunting waterfowl in the | | | | If you choose to hunt a guide or outfitter, then the |
| regular season is from late of November to the | | | | Internet is the best place to hunt for a guide to hunt |
| middle of January and from the middle of February | | | | with. Compare offerings in terms of the periods in |
| to the end of March for the spring conservation | | | | which the hunt is allowed, the type of waterfowl |
| order season. | | | | that are available in their area, support provided - |
| Guides and outfitters that provide hunting | | | | such as decoys, number of hunters allowed, number |
| opportunities often lease thousands of acres of land. | | | | of kills allowed, and the costs involved. Also, check |
| This allows hunters to move to the place where the | | | | for past hunter references with a given organization, |
| game is instead of waiting for the game to arrive to | | | | this should give you an idea of your chances to bag |
| where they are. Guides and outfitters provide | | | | some waterfowl. |